China News Agency, Beijing, March 21 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) The Central Third Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectorate Group reported to Shaanxi Province on the inspection situation on the 21st and pointed out that the progress of ecological restoration and management of historical mines in the Qinling area is slow, and there are 64 mines in the Qinling area that should be closed. The tailings pond was not closed as required.
Approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, the inspection team will provide feedback to the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government on March 21, 2022.
The head of the inspection team, Liu Weiping, informed the inspection report.
The inspector believes that Shaanxi Province has deeply learned the lessons of the illegal construction incident in the Qinling Mountains, and is determined to dismantle the "Qindong Water Township" landscape facilities, and effectively rectify the hunting and killing of endangered wild animals in the Qinling Mountains.
Shaanxi has made great progress in ecological environmental protection in recent years, but there is still a gap compared with the people's expectations for a better ecological environment, and some outstanding ecological environment problems need to be solved.
The inspector found that some localities and departments lacked a clear understanding of the severe situation of tighter energy consumption intensity and water resource constraints and fragile natural ecology in Shaanxi.
There is a shortage of water resources in northern Shaanxi, and the phenomenon of land desertification and desertification is serious, but a large number of cultivated land occupation and compensation balance projects are arranged in violation of natural laws.
Since 2012, about 300,000 mu of sandy land, forest and grassland have been reclaimed in Jingbian and other counties in Yulin City, and some projects are even located in the hinterland of the Mu Us Desert.
The reclamation of arable land in Jingbian County has led to a sharp increase in agricultural irrigation water use, and 35.78 million cubic meters of groundwater will be over-exploited in 2020.
Since 2018, 133,000 mu of forests have been deforested and reclaimed in Yulin City, aggravating forest land degradation and land desertification.
The inspector pointed out that 64 tailings ponds that should be closed in the Qinling area were not closed as required.
The 84 tailings ponds in the upper reaches of Danjiangkou in Shangluo City have environmental risks such as leakage and collapse to varying degrees.
There are 95 existing stone coal mine waste residue storage yards in the Haoping River Basin, a first-level tributary of the Han River, with a stockpile of more than 3 million cubic meters, and 41 places have not taken any anti-seepage and anti-leaching measures, affecting the water quality of the basin.
In addition, the level of solid waste resource utilization in Shaanxi Province is low, and there are frequent problems of illegal treatment and disposal of industrial solid waste.
As of the end of February 2022, the 2,163 public reporting issues assigned by the inspection team had been basically completed, 564 were ordered to rectify, 208 were punished, 13.574 million yuan was fined, 14 cases were filed for investigation, 34 people were detained, and 371 people were interviewed. 299 people were held accountable.
The inspector requested that Shaanxi Province should implement the requirements of coordinating the promotion of industrial pollution, urban and rural domestic pollution prevention and control, and comprehensive improvement of the ecological environment of mining areas; strengthen the ecological environmental protection and governance of the Yellow River tributaries and the hinterland of the basin; continue to strengthen the Qinling ecological environmental protection and restoration, and implement the Great responsibility for the protection of water sources in the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
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