Blue Book of the Yellow River Basin: Annual Report on Ecological Conservation and High-Quality Development of the Yellow River Basin (2024) by Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences provides an in-depth analysis of the practices, progress, overall trends and major challenges faced at the national level in nine provinces (regions) along the Yellow River in enhancing ecological conservation and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin from the second half of 2023 to the first half of 2024. Its proposed countermeasures and suggestions serve as a comprehensive annual reflection on the overall ecological conservation and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin over the past year.