Research on Ecological Restoration Technology in Arid or Semi-arid Areas from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative

doi:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2022.06.002

Abstract

Abstract:

In the new era of the rapid development of economic globalization and the community of human destiny, the implementation of the “One Belt and One Road” (OBOR) construction model is designed to coordinate environmental protection and economic development. Most of the countries along the Silk Road in the 21st century are developing countries, and the majority of them are facing the same ecological and developmental difficulties as China. In this paper, under the background of the “OBOR” strategy and on the basis of the distribution of global climate types, we selected Central Asia and Northwest China, which have temperate continental climates, as the research objects. We sorted out and summarized the main ecological problems faced by Western China and Central Asia during the development of the “Belt and Road” initiative. At the same time, in combination with the major ecological governance projects implemented in recent years, we proposed key ecological governance technologies that have a certain degree of scalability, such as key technologies for water resource utilization and protection, sand prevention and control, and saline-alkali land governance. The aim was to offer the experiences and a reference for providing technological models for the “one belt along the road” region and the country to build an effective ecological governance system. Two suggestions are then proposed for improving the feasibility and rationality of ecological governance technology in the construction of the “One Belt, One Road”. 1) With the implementation of the strategy of “OBOR” construction, the ecological threats the OBOR countries are facing cannot be ignored. Every country needs to jointly act to build an “OBOR” ecological civilization. 2) The participants must pay attention to the spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of ecological carrying capacity, and provide data reference and support for the reasonable allocation of ecological governance technology.

Key words: the “Belt and Road” initiative, ecological civilization, ecological governance, ecological restoration technology

LI Yue, QI Shi, LI Jingjing. Research on Ecological Restoration Technology in Arid or Semi-arid Areas from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2022, 13(6): 964-976.

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Asia					Central Eastern Europe	CIS	Africa	West Europe
West Asia	South Asia	Central Asia	East Asia	ASEAN	Central Eastern Europe	CIS	Africa	West Europe
Iran	India	Kazakhstan	Mongolia	Singapore	Lithuania	Russia	Egypt	Greece
Iraq	Pakistan	Uzbekistan		Malaysia	Estonia	Ukraine
Turkey	Bengal	Turkmenistan		Indonesia	Latvia	Belarus
Syria	Sri Lanka	Tajikistan		Myanmar	Czech Republic	Georgia
Jordan	Maldives	Kyrgyzstan		Thailand	Slovakia	Azerbaijan
Lebanon	Nepal			Laos	Hungary	Armenia
Israel	Bhutan			Vietnam	Slovenia	Moldova
Palestine				Cambodia	Croatia
Saudi Arabia				Brunei	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yemen				The Philippines	Montenegro
Oman					Serbia
The United Arab Emirates					Albania
Qatar					Romania
Kuwait					Bulgaria
Bahrain					Macedonia
Cyprus					Poland
Afghanistan

Asia					Central Eastern Europe	CIS	Africa	West Europe
West Asia	South Asia	Central Asia	East Asia	ASEAN	Central Eastern Europe	CIS	Africa	West Europe
Iran	India	Kazakhstan	Mongolia	Singapore	Lithuania	Russia	Egypt	Greece
Iraq	Pakistan	Uzbekistan		Malaysia	Estonia	Ukraine
Turkey	Bengal	Turkmenistan		Indonesia	Latvia	Belarus
Syria	Sri Lanka	Tajikistan		Myanmar	Czech Republic	Georgia
Jordan	Maldives	Kyrgyzstan		Thailand	Slovakia	Azerbaijan
Lebanon	Nepal			Laos	Hungary	Armenia
Israel	Bhutan			Vietnam	Slovenia	Moldova
Palestine				Cambodia	Croatia
Saudi Arabia				Brunei	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yemen				The Philippines	Montenegro
Oman					Serbia
The United Arab Emirates					Albania
Qatar					Romania
Kuwait					Bulgaria
Bahrain					Macedonia
Cyprus					Poland
Afghanistan

Region	Water supply (×10⁹ m³)				Water consumption (×10⁹ m³)
Region	Surface water	Groundwater	Recycled water	Subtotal	Agriculture	Industry	Life	Ecology	Subtotal
Xinjiang	456.9	119.4	0.9	577.2	546.4	15.0	10.0	5.8	577.2
Ningxia	59.4	5.3	0.2	64.9	57.7	4.4	2.1	0.7	64.9
Northern Shaanxi	32.8	30.0	1.7	64.5	37.3	11.8	12.7	2.6	64.4
Northern Gansu	88.7	26.5	1.6	116.8	94.8	11.3	7.5	3.1	116.7
Northern Qinghai	13.8	2.8	0.0	16.6	12.1	1.6	2.2	0.3	16.2
Western Inner Mongolia	71.1	38.9	2.5	112.5	82.3	10.1	5.7	14.4	112.5
Total	722.7	222.9	7.0	952.6	830.6	54.2	40.2	26.9	951.9

Region	Water supply (×10⁹ m³)				Water consumption (×10⁹ m³)
Region	Surface water	Groundwater	Recycled water	Subtotal	Agriculture	Industry	Life	Ecology	Subtotal
Xinjiang	456.9	119.4	0.9	577.2	546.4	15.0	10.0	5.8	577.2
Ningxia	59.4	5.3	0.2	64.9	57.7	4.4	2.1	0.7	64.9
Northern Shaanxi	32.8	30.0	1.7	64.5	37.3	11.8	12.7	2.6	64.4
Northern Gansu	88.7	26.5	1.6	116.8	94.8	11.3	7.5	3.1	116.7
Northern Qinghai	13.8	2.8	0.0	16.6	12.1	1.6	2.2	0.3	16.2
Western Inner Mongolia	71.1	38.9	2.5	112.5	82.3	10.1	5.7	14.4	112.5
Total	722.7	222.9	7.0	952.6	830.6	54.2	40.2	26.9	951.9

Region	Annual water consumption per capita (m³ person^-1)	Farmland irrigation quota (m³ mu^-1)	Water consumption per 10000 yuan of GDP (m³ (10000 yuan)^-1)
Nationwide	444	390	89
Northwest	936	505	183
Western Inner Mongolia	830	354	88
Northern Shaanxi	219	212	41
Northern Gansu	499	493	180
Northern Qinghai	323	311	33
Ningxia	971	727	223
Xinjiang	2446	588	619
Northwest/China (fold ratio)	2.11	1.29	2.06