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In order to provide reference for the institutional construction of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, from a methodological perspective, this paper analyzed the new institutional construction needs for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and the contradiction of the overall requirements of basin governance between fragmented management in reality. On the premise of adhering to ecological priority and green development, and implementing tailored and classified policies, the above issues could be solved by finding the smallest tool unit that covered both ecological protection and high-quality development. Green credit is the minimum common multiple between ecological protection and high-quality development. Establishing a green credit system through laws, regulations and policy regulations is a necessary foundation and logical starting point for basin collaborative governance. Yellow River Conservancy Commission and the nine provinces (regions) in the Yellow River Basin can, in accordance with higher-level laws and relevant policies such as the Yellow River Protection Law, promptly introduce operational norms applicable to the basin and region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to clarify the current situation of digital economy and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, explore the coupling coordination and interaction between these two aspects and provide a reference for implementing ecological protection and high-quality development strategies in the Yellow River Basin, the interactive mechanism between digital economy and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin was analyzed theoretically. Based on the panel data 2011 to 2020, a total of 64 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin were selected. This paper measured the development level of the digital economy and high-quality development level, empirically examined the coupling coordination relationship between these two dimensions by using coupling coordination degree model and explored the interactive relationship between the two through a PVAR model. The results of the study show that a) the development level of the digital economy in the Yellow River Basin has shown improvement during the research period, however, it remains generally lower with significant regional differences, which forms a circle distribution pattern with Jinan, Zhengzhou, Xi’an, Taiyuan and Hohhot as the core cities, and has the spatial distribution characteristics of high in the east and low in the west. b) The imbalance of high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin is prominent, characterized by the polarization and a distinct circle structure. This has resulted in the formation of a high-value area with Jinan, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Xi’an, Lanzhou and other provincial capitals as the core cities. c) The coupling coordination degree between the digital economy and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin has been increasing annually, but the overall coordination level remains insufficient. The current implementation only achieves the transition from the mild imbalance to near imbalance levels, and the coordination degree also illustrates a pattern of lower reaches＞middle reaches＞upper reaches. d) Both the digital economy and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin are characterized by self-reliance. High-quality development plays a significant role in promoting the digital economy, while the role of the digital economy in enhancing high-quality development needs to be reinforced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasing carbon productivity is an effective means to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality. To coordinate the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions reduction in the Yellow River Basin, the carbon productivity of 9 provinces（regions） in the Yellow River Basin from 2007 to 2017 is calculated. Based on DEA-Malmquist’s total factor carbon productivity model, the spatiotemporal evolution trajectory and spatial distribution pattern of total factor carbon productivity of 9 provinces（regions） is deduced. The potential improvement space of total factor carbon productivity is scientifically decomposed and the influencing factors of the spatiotemporal evolution of carbon productivity is identified. Based on this, the improvement path of carbon productivity in the Yellow River Basin is condensed. The results show that, 1) in the time dimension, the carbon productivity of 9 provinces（regions） rise steadily with the growth of per capita GDP,an increase of 283.3%, while the total factor carbon productivity remains at around 1.000. 2) In the spatial dimension, the regional heterogeneity of carbon productivity and total factor carbon productivity is relatively large affected by economic development and resource endowments, showing a spatial evolution pattern of “downstream significantly higher than midstream, and midstream slightly higher than upstream”. 3) From the point of influencing factors, the midstream and upstream belong to technical efficiency-driven, the role of technological progress is weak, while the downstream is a co-promotion type of technological progress and technological efficiency. Based on this, this paper proposes strategic suggestions such as innovating institutional mechanisms, promoting low-carbon development models, focusing on lowcarbon technology innovation, accelerating energy structure adjustment, strengthening regional integration cooperation, and improving factor allocation efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin are significant national strategies. The “Yellow River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China” provides legal guarantees for comprehensive management at the basin level, high-level protection of the Yellow River, high-quality development, and the building of a “Happy River” benefiting the people. The legislative basis of the “Yellow River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China” includes legislation at the national, local, and basin levels. It addresses the issues of unclear jurisdiction of Yellow River Basin management institutions and the lack of uniformity and coordination among provincial regulations. The paper proposed recommendations for the prompt building of a legal framework system based on the “Yellow River Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China” and the timely promotion and evaluation of the legislation and its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to provide reference for the formulation of relevant policies for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, this paper started from the perspective of the dual coupling of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin to build separate evaluation indicator systems for development quality and ecological protection. Then, it calculated the development quality index and ecological protection index of each province (autonomous region) in the year 2020 by using entropy method. It built a two-dimensional quadrant model of ecological protection and development quality with the national average development quality index and ecological protection index as the coordinate origin. Based on the distribution of each province (autonomous region) in the two-dimensional quadrants, it determined the coordination status of ecological protection and high-quality development. The results show that there is significant variation in ecological protection and development quality among provinces (autonomous regions) in the Yellow River Basin, with prominent issues of imbalance and inadequacy. Using the national average development quality index and ecological protection index as benchmarks, considering a development quality index higher than the national average as high quality and an ecological protection index higher than the national average as good ecological quality, the coordination status of ecological protection and high-quality development in the various provinces (autonomous regions) of the Yellow River Basin is classified into four types of excellent ecology-high quality, excellent ecology-low quality, low ecology-low quality and low ecology-high quality. The results show that only Sichuan is in a relatively ideal state of excellent ecology-high quality, while the other provinces (autonomous regions) are in the three types of non-coordinated states of excellent ecology-low quality, low ecology-low quality and low ecology-high quality. Finally, it proposes the establishment of a long-term mechanism for the coordinated advancement of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, focusing on the six aspects of top-level strategic design, inter-provincial (autonomous regional) collaborative control, public participation, rigid constraints on ecological protection, constraints on rights, responsibilities and interests and ecological compensation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to explore an effective way to improve the coupling and coordination between ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, build a high-quality development evaluation index system including five dimensions of innovative development, coordinated development, green development, open development and shared development, and an ecological evaluation index system including three dimensions of ecological environment resources, ecological environment carrying capacity and ecological environment management and based on panel data from nine provinces (regions) in the Yellow River Basin from 2002 to 2021, the entropy-weighted TOPSIS method was used to calculate the high-quality development index and ecological protection index. Then it calculated the coupling coordination degree and the decoupling index of the two and analyzed the coupling coordination level, decoupling state and its temporal and spatial changes. The results show that a) from 2002 to 2021, the level of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin has been improved and the trend of change is steadily improving. However, the issues of uneven high-quality development in the western region lagging behind the eastern region, the larger differences in ecological protection among the provinces (regions) and the fragile ecological environment have not been fundamentally changed. b) The coupling coordination degree between ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin fluctuated significantly before 2010 and the coupling coordination level was basically imbalanced. After 2010, the coupling coordination degree has been steadily improved, and the coupling coordination level is gradually shifted from primary coordination to good coordination and high-quality coordination. However, there are significant differences in the coupling coordination degree and coupling coordination level among different provinces (regions) . c) The decoupling state between ecological protection and high-quality development in the nine provinces (regions) of the Yellow River Basin from 2002 to 2021, in a few years, it is an expansion connection or weak decoupling, and most years experiencing unsatisfactory strong decoupling, strong negative decoupling, weak negative decoupling or declining coupling. At the end of the research period, most provinces (regions) experience a decline in high-quality development level accompanied by a strong negative decoupling state of improved ecological environment. This paper puts forward the path to enhance the coupling coordination between ecological environment protection and high-quality development of strengthening the flow of industrial development factors, accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading, and promoting the development of digital economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an important part of ecological barrier of the Yellow River Basin and the "Water Tower of China", ecological management of the Yellow River Basin in Sichuan Province plays an important role. Based on the importance and particularity of ecological governance for the Yellow River Basin in Sichuan Province, this paper systematically analyzed the contradictions between ecological protection and economic development, ecological governance and capital investment, ecological governance and scientific and technological support, as well as the contradictions between departments and regions. Based on the experience of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, it is suggested that the ecological governance for the Yellow River Basin in Sichuan should be combined with cultural research, people's livelihood development, green industry development, the construction of ecological civilization system and the cultivation of ecological consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to promote low-carbon transition and high-quality development process of agriculture in the Yellow River Basin, this paper used coefficient method to calculate the agricultural carbon effect of nine provinces（regions） in the Yellow River Basin from 2000 to 2020 and analyzed its spatial-temporal evolution law. The fairness and difference of provincial agricultural carbon emissions in the Yellow River Basin were researched from the perspectives of ecological carrying capacity and economic contribution capacity. The results show that the overall agricultural carbon effect of the Yellow River Basin maintains a stable growth trend, with the maximum increase in Inner Mongolia and the minimum increase in Sichuan. The agricultural carbon effect of each province (region) shows the characteristic of net carbon sink. The agricultural carbon effect of the Yellow River Basin shows the unbalanced spatial distribution of “high in the eastern area and low in the western area, high in the upstream and low in the downstream.” Based on the numerical difference of ecological carrying coefficient and economic contribution coefficient in the fairness evaluation model of agricultural carbon emissions, the nine provinces (regions) in the Yellow River Basin are divided into four categories of double-advantage type, ecological dominant type, economic dominant type and double-disadvantage type. Among which, Shandong has always been the double-advantage type; Henan has always been the ecological dominant type; Sichuan and Qinghai have always been the economic dominant type; Inner Mongolia has transformed from the double-advantage type into the ecological dominant type; Shaanxi and Shanxi have changed from the ecological dominant type to the economic dominant type and the double-disadvantage type respectively; Ningxia and Gansu have always been the double-disadvantage type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of high-standard warping dam is one of the main measures to achieve the national strategic goals of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, which will play a greater role in promoting the high-quality development of water and soil conservation and regional economic and social development. Based on the goals and requirements of high-quality warping dam construction, this paper analyzed the historical process of warping dam construction and technical standard development in the Yellow River Basin, discussed the definition and connotation of high-standard warping dam, put forward scientific issues and key technologies that need to be studied, and looked forward to the development prospect of high-standard warping dam. The warping dam in the Yellow River Basin has gone through a development process of more than 450 years in six stages, and the high-standard warping dam marks that the construction of warping dam has entered into a new period from “quantity”development changed to “quality”promotisn. The technical standards of warping dams have undergone a development process from the formation in the mid-80s of the 20th century to continuous improvement and revision along with the level of science and technology and practical experience in different periods. Compared with ordinary warping dams, high-standard warping dams have special essential characteristics, value and richer connotation and extension. The status and driving mechanism of high-standard warping dams in the comprehensive benefit chain and the technical standards of high-standard warping dam construction are topics that need to be studied in the future. The construction of high-standard warping dams will surely promote the high-quality development of soil and water conservation, and play a greater role in the coordinated development of multiple elements such as regional ecological governance, derivative economy, social culture, and landscape pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to encourage the in-depth implementation of China major national strategies on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, this paper based on the theoretical significance of Economic Geography, the Thought on Ecological Civilization, Dual-Nuclei Structure and the practical needs included the service and integration into the new development pattern, the coordinated development of the north-south economy and the high-quality development in inter-provincial border areas, a strategic concept of Zhengzhou and Jinan Twin City Economic Circle was put forward. The feasibility of Zhengzhou and Jinan Twin City Economic Circle construction was analyzed empirically through the strength of economic connections between Zhengzhou and Jinan, and the spatial layout of “One District, Two Cores and Three Belts” was constructed. Policy recommendations to promote the construction and development of Zhengzhou and Jinan Twin City Economic Circle were put forward by accessing the five aspects of strengthening the development of adjacent areas between Henan and Shandong; ensuring the security and ecological co-governance of the Yellow River Basin; consolidating the construction of transportation infrastructure; strengthening scientific and technological innovations and industrial co-operations; and deepening the integrated development of culture and tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The optimization of the industrial layout in the Yellow River Basin is of considerable significance to promote its high-quality development. Based on investigating the basic situation of the industrial layout of the nine provinces (autonomous regions) in the Yellow River Ba sin, this paper depicted the distribution map of key industries in the Yellow River Basin and analyzed the current situation of the industrial layout in the Yellow River Basin and its impact on the Yellow River. This paper also discussed the applicability of three industrial layout models, including the growth pole development, point-axis development and network development under the condition of high quality development in the Yellow River Basin. The industrial layout optimization matching the high-quality development of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River was proposed and the expected effect of this optimization's implementation was also studied. The results show that the effective industrial layout models matching high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin are expanding the industrial circle radiation range of existing growth poles and developing new growth poles, strengthening the driving ability to exist industrial axes and developing new shafts, as well as carrying out green and sustainable industrial development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific and technological innovation is the fundamental support for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. This paper analyzed the current status of scientific and technological innovation in nine provinces ( autonomous regions) in the Yellow River Basin from 2016 to 2020, and finds that the supporting mechanisms of scientific and technological innovation for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin are as follows: speed up the digitalization process of factors of production, smooth the high-quality factor circulation mechanism, improve the adaptability and innovation level of the economic structure, build high-quality synergy mechanism, optimize the law-based business environment, and implement the digitalization progressive governance mechanism. The Yellow River Basin ecological protection and high quality development of science and technology innovation support mechanism path and policy Suggestions for: in green technology innovation as the gripper coordinated development, promote the global ecological construction of the Yellow River Basin integrated large data center, improve the efficiency of digital integration of government affairs, increase efficiency and improve the business environment under the rule of law governance service governance and supervision system, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to improve the high quality development level ofHenan Province, it is necessary to clarify the current development status of Henan Province. Based on the understanding of the connotation of ecological protection in the Yellow River and the high quality development strategy, from the aspects of resources, ecological, economic and social subsystems, this paper built evaluation index system of development level by using the rule of single index quantitative multi-index comprehensive integration method (SMI-P), and evaluated the development level of the Yellow River Basin in Henan Province during 2011-2020. The results show that a) the development levels of 14 prefecture-level cities in the region show an increasing trend and the overall level rises from low to the medium; b) among the subsystems, the development level of resources subsystem is declining, while the development level of ecological, economic and social subsystems are rising and; c) the spatial and temporal differences of the development level of the Yellow River diversion receiving areas in Henan Province are very obvious and the development levels of the prefecture-level cities still need to be improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Middle Yellow River is an important agricultural and energy production area in China and it also has rich culture. However, the Yellow River flows through the Loess Plateau, where has serious soil erosion and fragile ecology. It poses a serious challenge to the high-quality development of the Middle Yellow River. This paper briefly described the geographical feature, climate environment characteristics, soil and water environment and economic status of the Middle Yellow River. As well as, this paper described the existing problems of the contradiction between water supply and demand, soil erosion, pollution, management mechanism and imperfect public participation. Then, the strategy design was made from six aspects including promoting green development, constructing coordination development, promoting industrial development, strengthening construction and sharing, promoting the Yellow River culture and speeding up the construction of city groups. Finally, a bracing system including strengthening toplevel design, improving water control mechanisms, innovating governance, constructing new development pattern and promoting market-oriented reforms was established for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Middle Yellow River. It was expected that this paper could lay a certain scientific decision-making foundation for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Middle Yellow River. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to deepen the research on the coordination mechanism of ecological protection and economic development of the urban agglomerations in the Yellow River Basin, and to provide references for the research on high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, taking the Lanzhou-Xi' an urban agglomeration, the Guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration, the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration, and the Huhhot-Baotou-Erdos-Yulin urban agglomeration, Central China urban agglomeration, Central Shanxi urban agglomeration, and Ningxia urban agglomeration along the Yellow River as the research objects, this paper established an index system according to the four subsystems of ecological environment, economic development, human water relationship, and people' s happiness . It adopted the entropy weight method and the coefficient of variation method to determine the index weights and SMI-P model to calculate the coordination degree between ecologic; J protection and high-quality development, and analyzed the changes in the coordination degree between ecological protection and high-quality development in urban agglomerations along the Yellow River from 2009 to 2018. The results show that the coordination degree of ecological protection and high-quality development of the urban agglomerations along the Yellow River presents a cascade distribution pattern of high in the cast and low in the west (high in the downstream and low in the upper reaches) ; the degree of coordination between protection and high-quality development is rising, and the difference in the degree of coordination among urban agglomerations is gradually decreasing; in 2009, only the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration is in a state of 'close to synergy", while most other urban agglomerations arc in a state of "on the verge of imbalance" ; in 2018, the Central China urban agglomeration and the Huhhot-Baotou-Erdos -Yulin urban agglomeration also reach a state of "close to synergy", while other urban agglomerations are about to reach a state of "close to synergy" ; there arc: significant spatial differences of the coordinated development index among four subsystems (i.e. ecological environment, economic development, human-water relationship, and people' s happiness of each urban agglomeration) . The urban agglomeration with high degree of coordination has a weaker subsystem coordinated development index, while the urban agglomeration with a low degree of coordination has a larger subsystem coordinated development index. Therefore, each urban agglomeration should he adequate to give full play to their respective location advantages and resource advantages, strengthen their weaknesses, and implement differentiated ecological protection and high-quality economic coordinated development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Gansu section of the Yellow River Basin is an important water conservation area and an important national ecological security barrier. However, the natural ecological background is fragile, the contradiction between regional economic development mid ecological protection is prominent, the function of water conservation is degraded mid ecosystem carrying capacity is weakened, which restrict the coordinated development of economy, society and ecological environment in the whole: province mid the Yd.low River Basin. In order to provide reference for the high-quality development in Gansu section of the Yellow River Basin, this study constructed a comprehensive evaluation index system based on the five development concepts of high-quality development, which was composed of five dimensions including economic vitality, innovation driven, improvement of people's livelihood, environmental conditions and green development. From the collaborative perspective of ecological protection and high-quality development, this paper quantitatively measured the high-quality development level of Gansu section of the Yellow River Basin from 2010 to 2018, and analyzed the evolution characteristics of its spatial-temporal pattern. The results arc as follows : The high-quality development is not high hut the composite index continues to rise in Gansu section of the Yellow River Basin from 2010 to 2018 . Except for the environmental condition having large fluctuation, the other four indexes of the five dimensions arc increased in a balanced growth . The high-quality development is showing a fairly trend in the whole: province. The high quality development level has significant spatial heterogeneity, forming a high-high agglomeration area with Tiayuguan as the core and a low-low agglomeration area with Dingxi, Linxia mid Longnan as the center. It puts forward suggestions to build a new pattern of ecological protection and economic coordinated development, build an ecological industrial system and strengthen the researches on ecological and environmental protection technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

General secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech on September 18 of 2019 in Zhengzhou. It is great significant to increase the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin as a major national strategy. This paper discussed the profound connotation of Xi’s important speech from the following three aspects: the value orientation of taking the people as the center, the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, and the ideological light of historical materialism and dialectical materialism. This paper expounded the realization path of implementing national strategy and building a happy river for the benefit of the people from five aspects of “flood control and safety protection, high quality water resources, healthy water ecology, livable water environment and advanced water culture”, focusing on the improvement of flood control engineering system, the downstream treatment ideas of “keeping river wide and reinforcing the levee, stabilizing main channel, beach based policy implementation and comprehensive treatment”, the water resources allocation pattern of “one line and seven reservoirs, node control, north-south economy, east-west balance”, and the overall layout of water ecological protection of the basin of “three zones and one corridor”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Yellow River Basin is an important ecological barrier and economic belt in north China. The Yellow River Basin is rich in energy resources and is an important energy base in China. The high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin plays an important role in narrowing the economic gap between north and south China. However, the heavy and chemical industries have long been the leading industries in the Yellow River Basin and the problems such as the large proportion of traditional industries, the disharmony of industrial structure and the weak innovation ability have become important factors restricting the high?quality development of the basin. Under the background of stricter environmental regulation and more significant ecological pressure, industrial ecological transformation has become an important way to promote high-quality development of river basins. Based on the general logic theory of industrial ecologicalization, this paper discussed the logical mechanism of industrial ecologicalization in the Yellow River Basin, discussed the specific path of industrial ecologicalization in the Yellow River Basin from the perspectives of agriculture, industry and service industry and put forward the following policy suggestions on promoting industrial ecologicalization of improving supporting policies and measures for industrial ecological transformation in the Yellow River Basin, accelerating the cultivation of new driving forces for industrial ecological transformation in the Yellow River Basin, creating high-quality ecological projects in the Yellow River Basin, improving the carbon emission trading system for industrial ecological transformation in the Yellow River Basin and enhancing the ecological carbon sink capacity of industrial ecological transformation in the Yellow River Basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The building of the evaluation method and the evaluation index system for the high quality development of the Yellow River Basin has been the focus of current research. Considering that the DPSIR model has strong advantages of comprehensiveness, integrity and systemicity, according to the characteristics of the Yellow River Basin and based on the improved DPSIR model, a high-quality development evaluation index system of the Yellow River Basin was built, which consisted of five logical criteria, such as driving force, pressure, state, influence and response, and 12 elements and 20 indicators. Entropy weight method was used to determine the weight of each index and evaluate the current situation of high quality development in the Yellow River Basin. The results show that the current high quality development index GDI of the Yellow River Basin is 2.589, the high quality development level is 3, and the state is ordinary. According to the scores of each criterion, each element and each index, the paper puts forward the shortcomings that should be made up for for the high quality development of the Yellow River Basin increasing the financial support to the tertiary industry, raising the income level of residents and increasing the proportion of labor factors control urban population density, reduce urban building planning density, create more job opportunities consolidate the achievements of returning farmland to forests and grasslands, increase forest coverage, optimize export industries, and promote the development of import and export trade promote the sustainable growth of technology market turnover, introduce scientific and technological talents and information technology, and promote the development of the information industry address employment and social security issues and increase support for small and medium-sized enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carbon ecological compensation is an effective means to coordinate regional ecological protection, promote economic development and achieve carbon neutrality. In order to build a diversified ecological compensation mechanism, promote the low-carbon transformation of the basin and achieve the goal of carbon neutrality in the Yellow River Basin, this paper took 9 provinces （regions） along the Yellow River as the research area, combined carbon neutrality targets with ecological compensation mechanisms and constructed a theoretical framework model of carbon ecological compensation. Based on carbon emissions and carbon sinks, the subject and object of carbon compensation were determined and supplementary example was used to explore the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of carbon ecological compensation in the Yellow River Basin from 2007 to 2017. The results show that the regional heterogeneity of carbon compensation credits in the 9 provinces （regions） along the Yellow River, affected by the level of economic and social development, resources endowments, carbon resources use efficiency, willingness to pay and ability is relatively larger in terms of the temporal and spatial pattern. Except for Ningxia, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Inner Mongolia in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River contribute more to carbon emission reduction and sequestration and they are carbon compensated areas. The middle and lower reaches of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong are carbon payment areas. The carbon deficit of Shanxi and Shandong is significantly higher than that of other provinces and the improvement of the ecological environment has a certain degree of lag. It is urgent to transform the economic development model to improve the matching degree of regional carbon emissions and resources endowment characteristics. Based on the results, policy recommendations for the construction of low-carbon transition and diversified ecological compensation mechanism in the Yellow River Basin are condensed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ecological conservation and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is one of the national strategies for regional development. Cooperative management is considered as the fundamental principle, method and approach to achieve this strategy because of its powerful and integrated function. Some scientific issues closely relating to the policy mid technology should be paid more attention for better implementation of cooperative management. The paper described the characters of cooperative management very briefly first, and then, put forward some scientific questions from 5 aspects of soil and water conservation and ecological restoration, water resources conservation and the development based on the water available, adjustment of flow and sediment of the Yellow River mid the integrated control of "suspended river", ecological production and compensation for ecological conservation mid high-quality development. It listed and discussed these issues here for the improvement of policy making and the compatibility between policy and demands and to improve the functions of technologies mid the objectivity of evaluation in the process of development of this challenging strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher requirements for the protection and management of the Yellow River were put forward, and also new opportunities for the development were provided in the Yellow river Basin following the established strategy of the ecological protection and high-quality development of Yellow river Basin. In this paper, the present situation of water security was analyzed, the connotation of high-quality development was discussed and the main problems existing in water security and high-quality development was summmarized in the Yellow River Basin; then, the ideas for the water security and high-quality development of the Yellow River were discussed and the corresponding suggestions were proposed. The main problems of water security and high-quality development in the Yellow River are shortage of water resources, frequent floods and uncoordinated relationship between water and sediment, serious soil erosion and fragile water ecological environment, deficient water resources operation and regional water supply project and weak cooperative management ability of the river basin. Focusing on the issues discussed above, the ideas were put forward from six aspects including disaster prevention and mitigation, water network optimization, ecological protection and restoration, efficient use of water resources, basin management capacity and scientific support. Meanwhile, suggestions were proposed based on strategic planning promotion, development plans formulation, technological innovation and support enhance, institutional innovation exploration, ecological conservation and restoration plan boost and the rule of law promotion, which provided references for water security and high-quality development of the Yellow River. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to improve comprehensively water security capability, conside ring the existing problems of flood risk threat, the stortage of water resources, fragile ecological environment and insufficient capacity for water management that the Yellow River Basin is facing with, the water security layout with coordinated protection of five zones including the source area, the upper, middle and lower areas of the Yellow River, the Yellow River estuary and delta areas was proposed based on the idea of "Focus on Protection and Key on Management". Then, the water security measures were put forward from the five aspects of promoting the economical and intensive use of water resources to improve the support ability of water resources, perfecting the flood control and disaster reduction system to ensure the peace and stability of the Yellow Rive r, strengthening the protection of water ecological environment to safeguard the healthy life of the Yellow River, systematically implementing the integrated prevention and control of soil erosion to improve the ecological environment in the Loess Plateau and promoting the river basin management ability to support the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Also, this paper could provide an important basis for the water security work of the ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to reveal the spatial and temporal evolution and internal mechanism of high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and to provide policy reference for the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, taking nine provinces ( regions) of the Yellow River Basin as the research object, based on the five development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, opening and sharing of high - quality development, the multi-dimensional gravitational entropy model was constructed. The paper analyzed the structural characteristics of high-quality development network in the Yellow River Basin from 2008 to 2017 from three aspects of network density, degree centrality and block model by Social Network Analysis method. The results show that Shandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Henan provinces have a large central control power, which belongs to the bidirectional overflow module of high-quality development, and have obvious external spillover effect on other provinces ( regions), It has a strong motive for ce for improving the overall high quality development level of the Yellow River Basin; Shanxi Province is an important province connecting the upstream and the downstream. However, the high-quality development level of Shanxi Province is not high in the research period. In the future, we should actively promote the construction of technological innovation system, increase the strength of production, study and research, actively develop and use new energy, realize green development and strengthen the bridge role in the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin; The indicators of innovation, coordination, green and sharing have been improved in four provinces (regions) including Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai, but the dependence on foreign trade has decreased and the degree of openness has been reduced. In the future, the degree of opening should be further expanded, high-tech talents should be introduced and cultivated, core competitiveness and high-quality development level should be improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to explore the research hotspots and frontier trends of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin, this paper collected data from CNKI database in the period of 1992-2021. It used CiteSpace software to analyze the cooperation network of authors and institutions, keywords, keywords in LLR clustering and Burst. Combining with the time, periodicals and subjective distribution map of published articles, the relevant knowledge maps were drawn. It is indicated that the research of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin is closely related to policy evolution. The research focus and frontier can be divided into four aspects of ecological environment, water pollution and restoration, ecological control and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin. However, there is a lack of close cooperation between major researchers. Research on ecological protection and high-quality development of the basin can be deepened from the aspects of perfecting the policy support system and the cooperation network of scientific research institutions in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Yellow River in Henan Province is the most complicated and difficult section with great flood control pressure. It is also the section that General Secretary Xi Jinping highlighted and paid attention to in his Speech at the Symposium on Ecological Protection and High-quality Development of the Yellow River Basin. In order to make the Yellow River become a happy river for the benefit of the people, this paper systematically sorted out the crux of the difficult problems of the Yellow River control, protection and high-quality development in Henan province and carried out the construction of comprehensive improvement project of Yellow River control, and protection in Henan Province. In accordance with the concept of "a community of life" put forward by the General, Secretary, we should make overall plans and coordinate the interests of, all parts and sectors so that they can form a resultant force, and promote the implementation of " Let the Yellow River become a happy river for the benefit of the people" . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Yellow River is the most complex and difficult river to harness in the world, as it has the characteristics of less water with more sediment, disharmony relation of water and sediment, suspended river channel, wandering and changeable river regime, serious flood threat, fragile ecological environment and sharp contradiction between supply and demand of water resources. It is urgent to formulate the Yellow River Law to solve the outstanding problems of the Yellow River and provide fundamental, overall and systematic institutional guarantee for the major national strategies of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. In this study, the necessity of formulating the Yellow River Law was discussed from six aspects: achieving the longterm stability of the Yellow River, promoting the conservation and intensive utilization of water resources, strengthening the ecological environment protection of the basin, realizing the high-quality development of the basin, protecting and inheriting the Yellow River culture and promoting the modernization of the river basin governance system and governance capacity. This paper expounded the attribute and orientation of the Yellow River Law from three aspects of comprehensiveness, wholeness and the relationship with other relevant laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are some divergences of understanding in the development of the Heishanxia reach of the Yellow River. After the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin raising to a major national strategy, it is necessary to think and examine the development of the section from a strategic perspective. This paper analyzed the new situation and problems facing the development of the Heishanxia reach of the Yellow River and studied the effect of the development of the section in the coordination of the Yellow River’s water and sediment, ice flood control, water supply and power generation. The effect of the regional economic and social development was considered. The development of the reach is in line with the major national strategic requirements for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin and has an important supporting role in promoting the implementation of major national strategies. It is recommended to choose a suitable development plan, promote the project to be established as soon as possible and build a multi-energy complementary base relying on the development of the Heishanxia reach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The soil and water conservation cause have got new requirements and new responsibilities on ecological protection and high-quality development of national strategy in the Yellow River basin. It is also an important opportunity for the soil and water conservation high-quality development in the Yellow River basin. Soil and water conservation work will enter into a new stage of high-quality development. Based on the new demand of national strategy for soil and water conservation, on account of summarizing the development experiences of soil and water conservation in the Yellow River basin, this paper introduced the roles and responsibilities of soil and water conservation in the national strategy for the management of the Yellow River in the new period, analyzed the existing problems and the challenges that need to be addressed on soil and water conservation in the Yellow River basin. Some suggestions and countermeasures were put forward, for an example, the strengthening weaknesses of precise control of soil and water loss in typical areas, the promotion of monitoring and forecasting system supervision, the establishment of development mechanism on soil and water conservation in the new period, and the construction of national strategic demonstration area on ecological protection and high-quality development with ecological construction of soil and water conservation as the core and strengthening of the soil and water conservation scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]