What does Yiqiong, Erbai and Sanbaoting mean?

One Qiong, Two Whites and Three Baoting refers to the poor areas of Qiongzhong, Baisha and Baoting in Hainan Island.

Qiongzhong is the poorest among them. Qiongzhong is known to more people, not because of poverty, scenery, or specialties, but because of football. Qiongzhong Women’s Football Team is a business card of Hainan. For three consecutive years in 2015, 2016, and 2017, it competed in what is known as the Little World Cup. The Gothenburg Cup World Youth Football Championship has won three consecutive championships, and major CCTV channels have also specially reported on the Qiongzhong Women’s Football Team.

There is only one traffic light and one street in the whole county. On this only street, coach Xiao Shan trained a group of girls who won the world championship. When the Chinese men’s football team sadly stopped in the top 12 , but a group of little girls quietly rose up in that unpopular corner of poverty. All the girls come from Qiongzhong, a national-level poverty-stricken county in Hainan.

Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County is located in the middle of Hainan Island. It has long summers without severe heat, short winters without severe cold, and the average annual temperature is 22.8 degrees Celsius. The whole territory covers an area of ??2704.66 square kilometers, and the road network spreads out in a radial shape. It is the transportation hub of Hainan Island's north-south and east-west highways. Qiongzhong is the ecological core area of ??Hainan and has the reputation of "the heart of Hainan, the source of the three rivers, the kingdom of forests, the hometown of green and orange, and the homeland of Li and Miao".

Because it is located in the core area of ??ecological protection, Qiongzhong’s infrastructure construction has been weak for a long time, and it cannot adopt the method of large-scale development. This has put many restrictions on the development of Qiongzhong, with a forest coverage rate of as high as 83.74%. It is the most dazzling sign in Qiongzhong, but it has also become the biggest obstacle to local development. Faced with such a dilemma, Qiongzhong’s choice is worth learning from.

“Treat the ecological environment like life”, this is Qiongzhong’s requirement for itself. It is not a slogan that comes after poverty alleviation, but it is true throughout the entire process of poverty alleviation. Qiongdao Green Lung is The biggest advantage of Qiongzhong is that its economic index ranks at the bottom of the province, and it has always been a national-level poverty-stricken county.

In 2017, the fiscal budget revenue of Qiongzhong Local Government was only 282 million yuan, but it raised 435.3 million yuan for ecological protection and comprehensive improvement of the rural environment. It is indeed worthy of this slogan.

Contributing to the ecology, Qiongzhong has received gifts. The number of tourists received soared from 220,500 in 2012 to 1.32 million in 2017. Tourism revenue of 510 million yuan was achieved. There is no pollution in the flowers in the virgin forest. After being collected by wild bees, the brew made by bees tastes good and has high nutritional value. In recent years, Qiongzhong has mobilized the entire county to develop the beekeeping industry and help poor households get rid of poverty and become rich.

From January 2017 to April 2018, the county’s honey production was 915,000 jins, with an output value of 36.6 million yuan. Beekeeping has gradually become one of the main sources of agricultural income in the county.

A poor county invested twice the county’s fiscal revenue in ecological protection. This is not a joke, but a great wisdom. The concept that “lucid waters and lush mountains are worth the price of gold and silver” is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This island has green mountains, green waters and high-quality air. The mountains, the water, and the greenery have become the core competitiveness in attracting Chinese and foreign tourists and investment.

Protecting the local ecological environment and ensuring local financial and economic development must not be satisfied at the same time. Qiongzhong taught me a lesson. In 2018, Qiongzhong achieved annual poverty alleviation of 2,346 households and 9,530 people, completing the provincial 108% of the mission, Qiongzhong’s goal this year is to get rid of poverty.

Protecting ecology does not mean giving up development, but choosing a more scientific, sustainable and green development model. Not all development is based on depleting natural resources and destroying local ecology. Of course it is not easy to do. Compared with large-scale construction, this process is necessarily slow, but it can bring the possibility of more sustainable development to a place. It is also the best gift left to future generations.