by! my country promulgated the Yangtze River Protection Law to protect the mother river
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 26 (Reporter Gao Jing) After three deliberations, the Yangtze River Protection Law is here!
On December 26, the 24th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to pass the Yangtze River Protection Law.
This law will come into effect on March 1, 2021.
The Yangtze River Protection Law includes 9 chapters, including general principles, planning and control, resource protection, water pollution prevention, ecological environment restoration, green development, guarantee and supervision, legal responsibilities and supplementary provisions, with a total of 96 articles.
In order to strengthen the ecological protection and restoration of the Yangtze River Basin, promote the rational and efficient use of resources, ensure ecological safety, realize the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, the promulgation and implementation of the Yangtze River Protection Law will form a rigid restraint mechanism to protect the Mother River.
"Total protection and no development" is written into the law.
The law stipulates that the economic and social development of the Yangtze River Basin should adhere to ecological priority and green development, and should focus on large-scale protection rather than large-scale development; the protection of the Yangtze River should adhere to overall coordination, scientific planning, innovation-driven, and systematic governance.
The protection of the Yangtze River involves upstream and downstream, left and right banks, how to form a protection force?
The law stipulates that the state establishes a coordination mechanism for the Yangtze River Basin, provides unified guidance and overall coordination of the protection of the Yangtze River, reviews major policies and plans for protection of the Yangtze River, coordinates major issues across regions and departments, and supervises and inspects the implementation of important work on the protection of the Yangtze River.
In order to protect the water environment of the Yangtze River, the law has strengthened the prevention and supervision of water pollution in the Yangtze River Basin, stipulating effective control of total phosphorus discharge and improving the capacity of urban and rural sewage collection and treatment.
Regarding the issue of banning and retreating fishing in the Yangtze River Basin, which people are currently concerned about, the law clearly bans productive fishing in the Yangtze River Basin Aquatic Biological Reserve; within the time limit set by the state, the Yangtze River mainstream and important tributaries, large lakes, and Yangtze River mouth regulations The productive fishing of natural fishery resources is completely prohibited in key waters such as regions.
In response to the problem of illegal sand mining in the Yangtze River Basin, the law proposes to strictly control the sand mining area, the total amount of sand mining, and the number of sand mining ships in the sand mining area.
It is forbidden to engage in sand mining activities in the areas where sand mining is prohibited and during the period when sand mining is prohibited in the Yangtze River Basin, and it is stipulated to carry out joint law enforcement on illegal sand mining.
In addition, the law also proposes relevant regulations to promote green development such as speeding up the relocation and transformation of hazardous chemical production enterprises in key areas, and clarifies the punishment of illegal acts, and protects the mother river with legal weapons.