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Great changes have taken place in Beiheba in the past and present.

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On the Tuojiang River in the northeast of Yancheng, Ziyang, there is a long and narrow fusiform floodplain with hundreds of acres of land, which was later called "Youth Forest".

Formerly known as "Beiheba", it is one of the "Eight Scenes of Ziyang" and the only place where Ziyang in central Sichuan used to go to Suining and Nanchong in eastern Sichuan. It used to be a pebble beach, overgrown with weeds and eight hairs, which was flooded during the flood season.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Youth League Committee of Ziyang County organized a specific activity of "greening the Tuojiang River", which was first presided over by Comrade Wen Yadong, then secretary of the Youth League Committee. A few years later, trees were planted on the beach, and willow, elm and birch were widely planted. The youth league members and young activists of the older generation have made positive contributions to afforestation. After the forest was completed, a monument was erected and named "Youth Forest". It will become a new landscape of Jiang Yan-"Jiang Yan Lin Yuan" for citizens' leisure and give back to the general public.

Whenever you stroll through the "Youth Forest", you will suddenly have a brand-new visual and auditory feeling: green trees, birds and flowers, fresh and pleasing air, fishing by the river and overlooking the river view; Or "Chuanjiang" drinks tea and eats; Or participate in various recreational facilities in the forest to relax and become a good place for the general public to visit and rest.

Because the "youth forest" is located in the middle of the river, the altitude is not high, and the Tuojiang River overflows from time to time, local deforestation also occurs. Later, due to neglect of management, I don't know when a wind of land reclamation rose quietly, and even the forest was destroyed, so that people did it, so that today, the sand is scattered and the trees are sparse, and people are inaccessible. Although it has been rectified a few years ago, cable bridges and platforms have been rebuilt, flaky trails are winding, and saplings have been planted on the roadside. However, there are few remaining "youth forests", among which elms and poplars are still bare branches, while willows and weeping willows are flourishing.

Such a place in the middle of the river has changed from a beach dam to a landscape of tree-lined, deforestation and planting flowers and grass, which can be described as a sea change.

The best policy is to control the flood in the lowlands in the middle of the river, adjust measures to local conditions, carry out scientific transformation, benefit the people, green the landscape, become the green lung of the city and restore the ecological environment. Strengthen management, cherish achievements, protect development, and be normalized and persistent!