The "Deputies' Passage" opened on Feb 4 during the fifth session of the 14th Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Congress, providing a platform for deputies to share first-hand experiences, policy insights, and grassroots voices.

Wu Xichun, deputy to the regional people's congress and executive president of Mengniu Group, noted that Inner Mongolia is one of China's largest dairy-producing regions, underscoring the need to accelerate the development of a modern dairy industry system.

He said efforts will focus on faster structural upgrading, digital and smart innovation, and deeper integration across the industrial chain to unlock the value of milk and enhance global competitiveness.

Addressing the coordination between energy development and ecological protection, Gao Zheng, deputy and Party secretary of Alshaa Right Banner, introduced plans to expand the "photovoltaics + desert control" model in the Badain Jaran Desert.

This model integrates solar power generation with sand stabilization and vegetation restoration, aiming to achieve power generation above panels, ecological recovery beneath them, and planting between arrays.

Deputy Menghe, Party secretary of Ongniud Banner in Chifeng city, shared tangible results of sand control efforts. Of the banner's 6.67 million mu (444,666 hectares) of sandy land, 5.77 million mu have been comprehensively treated, significantly increasing vegetation coverage, improving air quality, and attracting migratory birds such as swans and grey cranes, while also boosting local incomes.

Guo Lili, head of an agricultural cooperative in Horqin Right Wing Front Banner, Hinggan League, described how the development of the sweet glutinous corn industry has transformed a once small crop into a large-scale, value-added sector, bringing stable and growing incomes to local farmers and herders.

Cui Yijun, president of Inner Mongolia Jiutai Group, shared his experience of investing and expanding in the region's modern coal chemical industry. He said the company has continuously extended industrial chains and increased product value, crediting Inner Mongolia's strong resource advantages and improving business environment, and expressed confidence in the region's long-term development.