China News Service, Beijing, April 23 (Reporter Lang Lang) Recently, the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervision Team reported a number of outstanding ecological and environmental problems in 8 provinces including Shanxi, Hunan, Guangxi and Yunnan.

  At present, the notified areas have responded in succession.

But after responding, can the problem be solved effectively?

It is worth noting that in the first batch of 8 cases notified, 4 cases have already experienced "cross-round" pollution.

A 1,400-meter temporary pipeline is newly built in Fanhe New District, Tieling, Liaoning. Source: WeChat official account of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment

Go deep into the scene and form an expert group...

Immediately deploy rectification work in the named areas

  "Nationwide rare", "perfunctory scribbles", "major essays"... The notice of the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate is sternly worded, and related news is frequently searched. How to rectify the named areas has become the focus of everyone's attention. At present, All 8 notified regions have responded.

  "We sincerely accept these issues and accept them as per the order." On the same day the notification was issued, Tieling City, Liaoning held a special meeting on the water environment pollution problem in Fanhe New District, and stated that it should draw inferences from one another and treat all sewage treatment plants and sewage treatment plants in the city. The water purification plant conducts a pull-net investigation, and immediately rectifies the existing problems.

  Because the inspectors brought the deputy mayor to the residents' homes to smell the odor, Chongzuo City, Guangxi was on the hot search some time ago.

  On the second day of the notification, on April 17, the city held an on-site promotion meeting for the establishment of problems and reforms, and stated that it would dismantle the secretly drained pipelines, excavate and bury the sewage pipe network, start the construction of 3 sewage lifting pumping stations, and implement the interception project. , Improve the capacity of sewage treatment plants.

At present, the sewage treatment capacity of Jiangnan Sewage Treatment Plant in Chongzuo City has increased from 11,200 tons/day to more than 25,000 tons/day.

  On the morning of April 16, Shanxi Jinzhong City’s blindly launched coking project was notified by the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Team. Almost at the same time, Jinzhong City held an emergency meeting for the rectification of ecological and environmental protection inspectors.

  "With the courage of the blade and the determination of the strong man to break his wrist, we will do our best to do the rectification of ecological and environmental protection inspections." The meeting stated that for the problems pointed out by the inspection team, those who should be held accountable should be held accountable, and those that should be attacked should be resolutely cracked down. Accountability is a vigilant one, and one is attacked to deter one side. The high pressure situation has forced the improvement of the quality of ecological and environmental protection work.

  On the 17th, the secretary of the Jinzhong Municipal Party Committee and the mayor went to the named project site to supervise and inspect the implementation of rectification.

  In addition to the above-mentioned areas, Chuzhou in Anhui, Fuzhou in Jiangxi, Zhengzhou in Henan, Xiangtan in Hunan, Baoshan in Yunnan and other places have also expressed their views and rectified the situation through the establishment of special work classes, investigation teams, and task forces.

Shanxi Hongyuan Fukang New Energy coke oven smoked severely.

Source: WeChat official account of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment

The effect of rectification remains to be seen:

Four typical pollution problems have not been rectified after five years

  The rapid rectification of the local government is certainly worthy of recognition, but it remains to be seen whether the rectification can achieve practical results.

After all, in the first batch of 8 cases announced by the environmental protection inspector, there are 4 typical pollution problems. They were pointed out in the first round of inspections in 2016. After 5 years, the problems still exist.

  For example, the inspection team revealed that the first round of central ecological and environmental protection inspectors and "look back" feedback pointed out that some parts of Shanxi Province did not get rid of the dependence on the development path of high energy-consuming and high-polluting industries such as "coal coke power". And the department even allowed the rapid expansion of coking capacity.

  To this end, Shanxi Province issued the “Implementation Plan for the Coking Industry in Shanxi Province to Fight Pollution Prevention and Promote Transformation and Upgrading” in 2019, clarifying that the total coking capacity of the province should be reduced to less than 147.68 million tons, and on this basis, the built capacity should be maintained only. Decrease but not increase; among them, Jinzhong City's reduction mission target is 5.85 million tons.

  The inspection team found that if all the five unapproved coking projects in Jinzhong City were completed and put into operation in this report, the actual new coking capacity would be 6.92 million tons in 2019, and the rectification plan would fail.

  Similarly, the first round of central ecological and environmental protection inspections and "look back" have pointed out that Liaoning Province has problems such as delayed construction and renovation of sewage treatment facilities and supporting pipe networks in the Liaohe River Basin, direct discharge of domestic sewage, and deterioration of water quality.

  "Tieling City did not include the large amount of direct discharge of domestic sewage in Fanhe New District, unsuitable underground pipe network, long-term abnormal operation of sewage treatment plant, and deterioration of Fanhe water quality in the rectification plan during the two times of formulating the inspection and rectification plan. The inspection team revealed that in the first round of central ecological and environmental protection inspections, some people reported the direct discharge of domestic sewage in Fanhe New District, but Tieling City determined that it was not true without serious investigation.

  In addition to the above cases, the pollution problem of Chenfei Copper Industry in Lufang Industrial Zone, Jinxi County, Jiangxi Province, and the pollution problem of motor vehicle dismantling in Liufu Town, Fengyang County, Anhui Province were also exposed during the first round of inspections.

Summary table of the second round of the third batch of central ecological and environmental protection inspectors' supervision and reform. Source: WeChat official account of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment

The central ecological and environmental protection inspector enters the sinking stage

  The Ministry of Ecology and Environment disclosed that at present, the second round of the third batch of central ecological and environmental protection inspectors has entered the sinking work phase.

  As of 20:00 on the evening of April 19, the inspection teams had received 13,478 calls and letters from the masses, and accepted 11039 valid reports. After sorting out and combining repeated reports, a total of 9630 cases were transferred to the inspected unit; the inspected provinces have already Completed investigations and prosecutions of 1,453 cases, of which 435 cases were filed and punished with a fine of 25,809,700 yuan; 24 cases were filed for investigation and 15 people were detained; 428 party and government leaders were interviewed, and 96 party and government leaders were held accountable.

  During the sinking work phase, each inspection team focused on sinking to the prefectures (states) based on the situation and the clues of the problems that the inspectors had mastered in the previous phase, going to the grassroots, the front line, and the scene, and supervising the ecological environment protection of the municipal party committees and governments. Work progress and implementation.

  During the period, the inspection team will conduct on-site surveys and investigations to collect evidence for clues to important issues, and conduct inspections on whether there is a “one size fits all” approach to passively respond to inspections, and will not act indiscriminately, fail to take responsibility for environmental protection, and implement rectification. In the process of formalism and bureaucracy, we should strengthen targeted investigations and verifications, so that we can see people see things and see responsibility.

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