China News Service, October 27th. Wu Hongyao, a member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said on the 27th that the rural toilet revolution is progressing steadily. At present, the penetration rate of rural sanitary toilets across the country has reached more than 65%. Since 2018, more than 30 million rural household toilets have been renovated. .
Data map: A standard public toilet in a village.
Photo by Liu Lin
The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 27th to introduce the main achievements of agricultural and rural development during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
At the meeting, a reporter asked about the situation of toilet improvement, sewage and garbage disposal in rural areas: How is the progress of the "Three-year Action Plan for Rural Human Settlement Improvement"?
What results have been achieved?
Wu Hongyao responded that at the beginning of 2018, the Central Office and the State Council issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Rural Human Settlement Improvement". The Central Agricultural Office and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs actively played a leading role, and worked with relevant departments in accordance with the decision and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. , In-depth study of Zhejiang’s "Thousand Village Demonstration, Ten Thousand Village Renovation" project experience, and solidly promote the implementation of the three-year action plan.
At present, the improvement of the rural human settlements environment has been fully implemented, and significant initial results have been achieved. The objectives and tasks of the three-year action plan have been basically completed.
Wu Hongyao introduced the results of the improvement of rural human settlements from three aspects. First, most villages are clean and tidy.
At the end of 2018, 18 departments including the Central Agriculture Office and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs initiated the implementation of village cleaning operations, successively organized a series of war epidemics, and widely mobilized farmers to consciously carry out the "three cleansing and one reform", that is, cleaning up rural domestic garbage, cleaning up ponds in the village, Clean up livestock and poultry farming manure and other agricultural production wastes, change bad habits that affect rural human settlements, and focus on rectifying the "dirty, messy, and poor" problem of villages.
More than 95% of the villages have carried out cleaning activities, and the appearance of the village has been significantly improved.
The second is the solid progress of the rural toilet revolution.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has always adhered to local conditions, categorized policies, good wording, and quality first. Through the issuance of policy documents, holding deployment meetings, strengthening technical support, conducting supervision and inspection, strengthening publicity and training, etc., it has instructed all regions to give priority to the first-class county and steadily advance the second-class county. To reform toilets in the rural areas of LEI counties, pilot demonstrations will be carried out in three types of counties; all localities are required to change one or the other to improve the quality and effectiveness of the rural toilet reform, to ensure that good things are done well and the people are satisfied.
At present, the penetration rate of rural sanitary toilets across the country has reached more than 65%. Since 2018, more than 30 million rural household toilets have been newly renovated.
Third, coordinate and promote tasks such as the treatment of rural domestic garbage and sewage.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs actively cooperates with relevant departments to strengthen the treatment of rural domestic garbage and sewage, and improve the construction and management and protection mechanisms.
At present, the rural domestic waste collection, transportation and disposal system has covered more than 90% of the administrative villages in the country, 99% of the 24,000 informal waste dumps identified in the country have been renovated, and the level of rural domestic sewage treatment has been improved.
Referring to the next step, Wu Hongyao said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will study and plan the improvement and improvement of the rural human settlement environment in the "14th Five-Year Plan" on the basis of earnestly summarizing the implementation effects of the three-year action plan. The living environment allows farmers to have more sense of gain and happiness.