The monitored typical marine ecosystems have basically eliminated the "unhealthy" state. Last year, the state of my country's marine ecological environment was generally stable and improving.
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In 2021, the overall situation of my country's marine ecological environment will be stable and improving: the overall seawater quality will continue to improve, and the sea area that meets the first-class seawater quality standards will account for 97.7% of the sea area under its jurisdiction, an increase of 0.9 percentage points year-on-year; the health of the marine ecosystem Overall improvement, the typical marine ecosystems monitored are in a healthy or sub-healthy state, and the “unhealthy” state has been basically eliminated.
□ Our reporter Zhang Wei
Summer is approaching, and it is the most suitable season of the year for pro-sea play.
How is the water quality of the beach?
Is there a problem with the number of bacterial flora exceeding the standard?
Are there floating objects?
These issues, which directly affect people's health and experience of being close to the sea, are all related to marine ecological protection.
As Zhang Zhifeng, deputy director of the Marine Ecological Environment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said recently, "Bathing beaches are an important space for the public to be close to the sea and close to the sea, and they are also a mirror for the public to intuitively experience and feel the quality of the marine ecological environment."
According to Zhang Zhifeng, in 2021, my country's marine ecological environment will generally be stable and improving: the overall seawater quality will continue to improve, and the sea area that meets the first-class seawater quality standards will account for 97.7% of the sea area under its jurisdiction, an increase of 0.9 percentage points year-on-year; The proportion of coastal waters with excellent water quality (Class I and II) was 81.3%, up 3.9 percentage points year-on-year; the overall health of marine ecosystems improved, and the typical marine ecosystems monitored were in a healthy or sub-healthy state, and “unhealthy” conditions have been basically eliminated. The environmental quality of the main sea areas is generally good, and while protecting the marine ecological environment, it also provides strong support and guarantee for the development of the marine economy.
The water quality of the beach is excellent
Bright sunshine, azure blue water, soft sandy beaches... This is the holiday life that many people yearn for.
For those who plan to have fun at the beach this summer, feel free to go.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently brought good news: "Judging from the monitoring results over the years, the water quality of the 32 bathing beaches currently monitored is generally at an excellent level." Zhang Zhifeng said that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and coastal local governments at all levels attach great importance to bathing beaches Water quality monitoring and environmental protection work.
Careful people will find that in recent years, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will publish weekly reports on water quality of 32 beaches in coastal cities on the official website and other platforms every summer swimming season and travel period, so as to provide timely and effective information for the public to love the sea and play in the water. Environmental Information Service.
Various targeted environmental governance work has been carried out in coastal areas that have bathing beaches, aiming to provide a good bathing beach environment for people who come to play.
For example, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province attaches great importance to the environmental protection and quality improvement of coastal beaches. The coastal beaches of Beidaihe and other sections are included in the working mechanism of the "cigarette butt revolution" during the tourist season. Citizens, tourists and management personnel are invited to work together to maintain beautiful and clean beaches. surroundings.
Shantou City, Guangdong Province has continued to strengthen comprehensive land-sea management in Qing'ao Bay and other areas, rationally planned and adjusted the layout of ecological aquaculture, and timely cleaned up and transferred beach garbage, so as to effectively ensure the environmental quality of the beach.
The effect is obvious.
"These works allow ordinary people to fully enjoy the blue sea and blue sky, clean beaches, and experience the sense of acquisition and happiness of being close to the sea and playing in the water." Zhang Zhifeng commented.
From the environmental improvement of the beach, it can be seen that the quality of my country's marine ecological environment has improved.
Behind this, the first is the further improvement of my country's legislation, policies, and top-level design.
Since last year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with relevant departments, has issued and implemented a series of policy documents and plans, gradually clarifying the "task book", "timetable" and "roadmap" for marine ecological and environmental protection work.
A law revision enters the fast lane.
After full preparation and research and demonstration in the early stage, the revision of the Marine Environmental Protection Law has been incorporated into the 2022 National People's Congress legislative plan.
Zhang Zhifeng revealed that at this stage, the NPC Environmental and Resources Committee is taking the lead in organizing the drafting of the draft revision of the law, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other relevant departments are also actively cooperating with the NPC Environmental and Resources Committee to do relevant work.
A main line of work is connected up and down.
In January this year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with multiple departments, jointly issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Marine Ecological Environmental Protection". "Strategies" to accurately deploy key mission measures for each bay.
The 11 coastal provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have also issued the provincial "14th Five-Year Plan" in different forms, promoting the construction of beautiful bays with "clean water, clean beaches, flock of fish and gulls, and harmonious sea of people" according to local conditions. , The work pattern of connecting up and down the province, city and bay, and hierarchical governance is gradually formed.
An important document is implemented in depth.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment implemented the "Implementation Opinions on Strengthening the Supervision and Management of Sewage Outlets Entering Rivers and Seas" issued by the General Office of the State Council. Trial implementation), coordinate and promote the formulation of relevant technical standards, guide and urge coastal areas to steadily push forward the investigation and rectification of sewage outfalls into the sea and other work.
Nearly 200 million yuan in fines collected
Beyond the institutional level, law enforcement and regulation are also actively acting.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with relevant departments and coastal areas, will continue to maintain the strength, extend the depth and broaden the breadth during the "14th Five-Year Plan", and actively plan and work together to advance the three key sea areas of the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Estuary-Hangzhou Bay, and the Pearl River Estuary.
At present, the "Action Plan for Comprehensive Management of Key Sea Areas" has been issued and implemented by multiple departments, and 8 relevant coastal provinces (cities) and "2+24" coastal cities have taken action; the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has also organized nearly 100 experts to set up stations. The technical assistance working group went to the coastal cities to send policies, technologies, and services to the front lines.
Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, has jointly issued and implemented the "Opinions on Strengthening the Supervision of Marine Aquaculture Ecological Environment", and jointly issued and implemented the "National Marine Dumping Area Plan (2021-2025)" with the Ministry of Natural Resources, further strengthening the relevant Marine ecological environment supervision in the field.
As the "national team" and "main force" of maritime law enforcement, the China Coast Guard focuses on the outstanding problems of marine pollution and ecological damage, and severely cracks down on various illegal and criminal activities that damage the marine ecological environment in accordance with the law.
According to Liu Dejun, a spokesman for the China Coast Guard, the China Coast Guard has comprehensively strengthened the normal supervision of important areas in recent years.
Comprehensive use of land and shore inspections, sea cruises and aerial inspections, etc., strengthen regular inspections of key projects, normal inspections of hot spots and dynamic inspections of key links, and inspect more than 19,000 marine projects, oil platforms, islands, dumping areas, etc., and investigate and deal with illegal activities. There were more than 360 cases of reclamation, illegal dumping, and island destruction, and a fine of nearly 200 million yuan was collected.
Severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities in key areas.
Pay close attention to the outstanding problems of pirate mining of sea sand, establish a regular patrol mechanism in key sea areas such as sea sand enrichment areas, strengthen the operation of special projects, crack down on the criminal chain, successfully destroy 3 gangs of pirate sea sand mining, and investigate and deal with more than 1,700 sand-related cases. Since then, 12.5 million tons of sea sand have been seized.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, we actively promoted the "Internet +" dumping activity supervision model, and accurately seized 261 illegal dumping cases.
Strictly prevent ecological and environmental risks in key links.
Establish a regular inspection mechanism for offshore oil exploration and development, carry out a regular cruise for offshore oil exploration and development every quarter, and conduct no less than one comprehensive inspection of manned oil platforms and land-shore terminal processing plants every year to strictly check for potential oil spill risks.
Formulate an emergency response plan for oil spills in offshore oil exploration and development, and prudently respond to oil spills caused by production safety accidents.
Effective plastic pollution control
Marine microplastic pollution, which was once a headache, has now been effectively managed.
In recent years, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other departments have coordinated and coordinated, issued a series of policy documents, deployed multiple tasks and measures, and further promoted the full-chain governance and supervision of plastic pollution.
The "2021 China Marine Ecological Environment Status Bulletin" released last month announced the relevant monitoring and evaluation results: the average density of floating garbage on the sea surface in my country's coastal waters is about 3.6 kg/square kilometer, and the average density of offshore microplastics is about 0.44 pieces/cubic Compared with the results of similar international surveys in recent years, all of them are at a medium and low level.
Coastal areas have taken the initiative to act and actively explore the control of marine plastic pollution, and have formed a number of good experience and practices.
For example, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province is actively exploring to create a new "blue cycle" model for marine plastic pollution control: the government and enterprises work together to organize fishermen to recycle marine plastic waste, and the recycled plastics are uniformly transported to relevant enterprises for batch processing It is recycled and made into high value-added products such as mobile phone cases. The income from the sale of the products is fed back to the fishermen who participate in the recycling of marine plastics.
The reporter saw at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment a mobile phone case made from marine plastics.
By scanning the QR code above, you can trace the source to see who picked up the plastic that made the phone case, who shipped it, where it was stored, who transported it, who regenerated it, who made it, etc.
It is understood that through such a "blue cycle", a new model of marine plastic pollution control with government guidance, corporate entities, industrial collaboration, and public participation has been formed. Valuable practical exploration was carried out on the pain points and blocking points.
Zhang Zhifeng said that in the next step, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will work with relevant departments to strictly control the source of plastic waste and prevent it from entering the sea.
Further strengthen the source reduction of plastic production and use, accelerate the recycling and disposal of plastic waste, and greatly reduce the amount of environmental leakage of plastic waste.
At the same time, guide and urge coastal areas to intensify efforts to do a good job in the source control of plastic waste and the prevention and control of entering the sea, and take multiple measures to reduce the source of marine waste discharge pressure.
Promote coastal local governments to strengthen marine litter and plastic pollution control.
"We will continue to strengthen the monitoring and supervision of marine debris and microplastics, and guide and supervise coastal areas to establish and improve a long-term mechanism for cleaning up marine debris." Bay Area) to carry out a one-year special campaign to clean up plastic waste by pulling nets.
It is expected that "clear water, clean beaches, flock of fish and gulls, and harmony in the sea of people" will become the norm in the coastal areas.