China News Service, June 10th, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Zhao Yingmin said on the 10th that compared with the first national pollution source census, the results of this census show that the discharge of major pollutants has dropped significantly, and the industrial structure adjustment has achieved significant results. Governance capacity has been significantly improved.
On the morning of the 10th, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference. Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Zhao Yingmin and relevant officials of the Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs introduced the situation of the Second National Pollution Source Census Bulletin and answered questions from reporters.
At the meeting, a reporter asked, compared with the first national pollution source census, what are the results of this census? Compared with ten years ago, what are the changes in the overall situation of pollution sources?
Zhao Yingmin, deputy minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the standard time point of the first census of pollution sources was December 31, 2007, and the standard time point was December 31, 2017, which was a full difference of ten years. The past decade, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Party, has been a decade in which our country has vigorously promoted the construction of ecological civilization and the rapid improvement of the quality of the ecological environment. From the data of the census results, we can see the changes in this decade, mainly in three aspects:
First, the discharge of major pollutants has dropped significantly. Compared with the first national pollution source census data with the same caliber, the emissions of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, chemical oxygen demand, and nitrogen oxides in 2017 decreased by 72%, 46%, and 34% respectively from 2007, reflecting the recent pollution. Great results achieved in prevention.
Second, the restructuring of the industrial structure has achieved remarkable results. First, the concentration of production capacity in key industries has increased. Compared with 2007, the output of paper, steel, cement and other industries in the country increased by 61%, 50% and 71%, and the number of enterprises decreased by 24%, 50% and 37% respectively. The output increased and the number of enterprises decreased. The average output of individual enterprises increased by 113%, 202% and 170% respectively. Second, the discharge of major pollutants in key industries has dropped significantly. Compared with 2007, it is still the above-mentioned industry. The chemical oxygen demand of the paper industry is reduced by 84%, the sulfur dioxide in the steel industry is reduced by 54%, and the nitrogen oxide in the cement industry is reduced by 23%. It can be seen that the quality of economic development has improved in the past decade, and the number of enterprises has decreased, but the concentration of production capacity has increased. While the output of products has increased, the amount of pollutant emissions has dropped significantly, that is, the amount of pollutants discharged per unit of product has been greatly increased. decline.
Third, the ability to control pollution has been significantly improved. The number of industrial enterprises' wastewater treatment, desulfurization, dust removal and other facilities was 2.4 times, 3.3 times, and 5 times that of 2007, respectively, which are several times the number of pollution control facilities ten years ago. The manure treatment capacity of livestock and poultry farming has been generally improved. The proportion of manure and urine resource utilization of livestock and poultry farms has reached 85% and 78%, respectively, and the proportion of dry manure removal in pig-scale farms has increased from 55% in 2007 to 2017 87%. The urban infrastructure construction has achieved remarkable results, and the pollution control capacity has been greatly improved. Compared with ten years ago, the number of urban sewage treatment plants has increased by 5.4 times, the treatment capacity has increased by 1.7 times, the actual sewage treatment capacity has increased by 2.1 times, and urban domestic sewage The chemical oxygen demand removal rate increased from 28% in 2007 to 67% in 2017. The number of domestic waste disposal plants has increased by 86% in ten years, of which the number of waste incineration plants has increased by 303%, the amount of incineration treatment has increased by 577%, and the proportion of incineration treatment has increased from 8% a decade ago to 27%. The number of hazardous waste centralized utilization and disposal plants has increased by 8.22 times, and the designed disposal capacity has increased by 42.79 million tons per year, which is 10.4 times that of the last census. The volume of centralized disposal and utilization increased by 14.67 million tons, an increase of 12.5 times from ten years ago.
Zhao Yingmin pointed out that through comparison with the results of a pollutant, we can see the achievements our country has made in the ecological environment in the past decade.