Environmental governance blatant falsification review experts all fail to observe their political achievements, distorted and misplaced
Removal of pollution sources in Qilu Lake
On July 8, the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision notified Qilu Lake pollution control, fraud and other related issues, involving 6 responsible units and 29 related persons responsible.
"Openly falsified", "falsified", "failure of supervision has spawned a fraud project"... The notification pointed out the main problems existing in the Yuxi Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government, and the Tonghai County Party Committee and County Government.
Why has the water quality of Qilu Lake not been improved for a long time?
Why did inaction and chaos develop to blatant fraud?
Is there hidden political ecological pollution behind the natural ecological pollution?
These Qilu Lake questions were answered one by one following the comprehensive and in-depth investigation and verification of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Why did inaction and chaos develop to blatant fraud?
Distorted and misplaced views on political achievements, and intensified formalism and bureaucracy
"Qilu" means "beautiful stones growing in the lake" in minority languages, and Qilu Lake was once synonymous with the beauty of the sea.
In April this year, the Eighth Central Supervision Group for Ecological Environmental Protection went to Yuxi City’s inspector and found that Tonghai County was really tough in its work on Qilu Lake pollution control. In order to meet the water quality assessment requirements, it carried out pretentious projects and made superficial articles. Falsified methods interfered with the sampling environment of the state-controlled water quality monitoring points, causing the illusion of water quality improvement. In fact, the water quality of Qilu Lake has not been improved.
As early as the first round of Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectorate in 2016 and the "Looking Back" in 2018, the problem of pollution control in Qilu Lake has been pointed out.
The Yunnan Provincial Inspectorate's rectification plan and the water pollution prevention and control target responsibility letter clearly stated that it is necessary to promote the adjustment of planting structure and the transformation of agricultural production methods, and the water quality of Qilu Lake will reach Class V by 2020.
However, since 2018, the deterioration of Qilu Lake's water quality has remained obvious.
What is the "difficulty" in the pollution control of Qilu Lake?
The concept of "relying on the sky to control the lake" and negative avoidance is deeply ingrained.
"In the past few years, there has been blind optimism in the protection and management of Qilu Lake." Ma Chunming, then deputy secretary of the Tonghai County Party Committee and county magistrate, said, "From 2016 to 2019, there were not many projects for pollution control of Qilu Lake. Everyone feels that the goal can be achieved without too much effort.” According to reports, Tonghai County has not budgeted and allocated a cent for the non-point source pollution treatment of Qilu Lake for three consecutive years.
Among the many factors affecting lake water quality, non-point source pollution is the most important. Non-point source pollution from agriculture and rural areas around Qilu Lake accounts for more than 85% of the total pollutants entering the lake.
To protect Qilu Lake well, it is necessary to solve agricultural and rural non-point source pollution, mobilize and mobilize the masses to adjust agricultural planting structure, production methods, etc. However, the Tonghai County Party Committee and the county government lack the confidence and courage to deal with hard bones, and lack the work for the masses. An effective way to "go around" the problem of non-point source pollution.
The vegetable planting area of the county did not decrease but increased, from 345,000 mu in 2018 to 353,000 mu in 2020.
After seeing the obvious deterioration of water quality in 2020 and difficulty in achieving the water quality assessment goals, the Tonghai County Party Committee and County Government successively held meetings to study the water quality improvement project, and unrealistically proposed "striving to improve water quality in the shortest time", which violates scientific laws. , Hurriedly over-ground projects, some of which have not been fully investigated and studied at all, and have not been implemented without feasibility assessment.
Tonghai County built a flexible enclosure project around the national control monitoring point in the heart of Qilu Lake to form a relatively closed area, and then discharged the water treated by the Dalongtan water replenishment and water quality improvement station to the periphery of the national control monitoring point to dilute the water body Pollution concentration interferes with the water quality monitoring sampling environment, causing the illusion of water quality improvement.
Facts have proved that Tonghai County has set the wrong goal for Qilu Lake's governance from the very beginning. Deviations and errors have occurred in the focus and direction of work, working methods and ideas: not for Qilu Lake itself, but for "political performance" and to cope with the assessment. .
The investigation found that the three projects of flexible enclosure, water quality improvement, and water supply pipeline extension did not sufficiently and scientifically demonstrate their feasibility and effectiveness. Instead, they were prepared and reviewed in a "play-by-house" style, "peek-a-boo". Type bidding and bidding.
For the flexible enclosure project, it took less than 20 days from contacting consulting experts, entrusting technology companies to prepare the plan, to discussing and approving the plan at the executive meeting of the county government, and then to the plan review and approval; from the start of construction to the completion of the 8,340-meter enclosure, it only took 34 days.
The water supplement pipeline extension project did not have any argumentation analysis, and the leader in charge at the time made the project "walk from the paper to the lake" with a single sentence.
Fraudulent behavior not only does not help the Qilu Lake's governance, but also affects the Qilu Lake's system governance.
Why did the 29 experts "endorse" the falsification project?
Discard principled positions for petty profits
With the gradual deepening of investigations into the pollution control of Qilu Lake, behind the inaction, inaction, chaos and false actions, a special group of "experts" began to emerge.
In the issue of Qilu Lake's ecological and environmental protection, some engineering projects that violate common sense and fraud have been "endorsed" by experts.
However, after getting "expert scientific evidence", the falsification seems to be "tall" and the sense of science and technology is strong.
Preliminary investigation found that in Tonghai County, 29 experts participated in these fraud projects in the case of “using fraudulent means to interfere with the sampling environment of national-controlled water quality monitoring points”.
Some people play the role of "scientific research broker", matchmaking bridges between the local party committee and the government, project undertakers, and technical experts, taking the benefits of the construction party in one hand, and holding experts in the other to participate in various project review meetings; "Mentality, frequent participation in relevant project review meetings; some people are trapped in them out of self-interest, human sentiment and other considerations without knowing it; some so-called "experts" have no relevant qualifications and professional backgrounds, but just make up the numbers and save the field. .
According to the investigators, the 29 people who participated in the review received varying amounts of review fees and expert consultation fees, and issued opinions such as "agree" and "in principle agreement". None of them gave a "no pass" opinion or opted out. It can be said that all fell.
In the process of promoting the pollution interception and pollution control project of Qilu Lake, the Tonghai County Party Committee and the county government stopped the construction of farmland recycling pumping stations and changed the implementation subject. The preliminary design needs to be adjusted. Lake Pumping Station Reconstruction and Water Resources Allocation Project Review Meeting".
The four experts who hurriedly participated in the meeting did not know the specific content of the review, nor the consequences and impact of the change. The meeting was held in a daze and signed in a daze.
"If the experts put forward more suggestions, or are not passed, they will be considered by others in the expert group to be out of the group, and will be kicked out of the group, and there will be basically no chance to participate in the industry review in the future." In addition to the helplessness of individual experts, the survey also found All kinds of experts have their own "small circles", or the relationship between classmates, or teacher-student relationship, or colleague relationship, etc.
In addition to the fact that experts are mostly acquaintances and reviewers often help each other, unwritten "rules" in project review also influence review opinions. For example, there is an undue close relationship between experts and companies.
Regarding the evaluation of Qilu Lake’s related projects, on the one hand, experts knowing that there are defects and problems in the project, and when the local party committee and government put forward unreasonable requests, they have given the project a mentality of “helping” and “repairing the platform”. Positive evaluation.
On the other hand, after the local party committees and governments received expert "expert opinions", they became more determined and determined to promote problem projects.
In this way, the leaders of the evaluation of Qilu Lake-related projects are "urgent", the experts are "emergency", the evaluation will go through the stage, and the "problem projects" will be launched in a hurry.
Where is the pollution source of Mother Lake?
The hidden political ecological pollution behind the natural ecological pollution
"Do you know what your enemy is? How can you fight if you can't find the enemy? Your main task now is to improve the water quality at the'National Examination' site." As the leader in charge of environmental protection and Sanhu management in Yuxi City, he was then Yuxi He Bin, the deputy mayor of the Municipal People's Government, made such arrangements.
He Bin took advantage of his job convenience and professional knowledge to self-direct and perform the false project of flexible enclosure, and profited from it.
This project, which is meaningless at first sight by a discerning person, was hurriedly launched under his direct "concern" and "care". From idea proposal, demonstration and project establishment, to coordination of funds, hurried implementation, and "national examination", a series of seemingly consistent He Bin is responsible for all the actions behind the compliance procedures.
"In the construction of the Qilu Lake flexible enclosure, corruption is actually at work because of the acceptance of red envelopes and gift money from illegal merchants. This is a very bad behavior and has caused a greater pollution to Qilu Lake. "He Bin's reflection is too late.
On July 8, the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection notified: He Bin was under supervision and investigation for being suspected of serious violations of the law in the pollution control of Qilu Lake in Tonghai County, Yuxi City.
Yuxi City has three plateau lakes, Fuxian Lake, Xingyun Lake, and Qilu Lake, and the construction of ecological civilization is of great significance.
Since he was appointed Secretary of the Yuxi Municipal Party Committee in 2014, Luo Yingguang has been in power for 6 years, and the political and ecological pollution sources that have been formed have been intertwined with the existing diseases and old diseases, and even the Qilu Lake management has been chaotic.
"The formalist bureaucracy in the protection and management of Qilu Lake has given the majority of cadres in Yuxi, especially the cadres of the Sanhu frontline, a very bad head, causing the cadres to behave in a different way." Luo Yingguang said, protecting the Sanhu. Governance is all on the lips, and there is less implementation in action. As a result, the cadres do not implement the work in the spirit of being responsible to the people, and protection and governance will have problems of this kind.
The Tonghai County Party Committee and the county government have never directly faced the problem of agricultural and rural non-point source pollution. They did not pay attention to the problems pointed out by the central environmental protection inspector in 2016 and 2018. They did not list agricultural and rural non-point source pollution prevention and control, planting industry structure adjustment, and production mode transformation as important. On the agenda, the county party committee will not hold a special meeting for the first time until 2020.
Not only that, the investigation found that the main leaders of the Tonghai County Party Committee and the county government also mobilized the county’s development and reform, finance, natural resources, ecological environment, water conservancy, agriculture and rural departments to collectively falsify data in response to state-controlled water quality monitoring points.
In October 2020, the Qilu Lake protection and governance work conference held in Yuxi City is more like an emergency treatment meeting than a governance work meeting. The key measures proposed are "ultra-conventional water-saving measures" and "ultra-conventional diversion." "Measures", "Ultra-conventional water replenishment measures", and "Ultra-conventional water purification measures".
It is with the approval of Yuxi City that Tonghai County can carry out various "emergency" projects with great fanfare.
Behind the deterioration of the natural ecology, there are often problems with political ecology, political discipline, and political rules.
Judging from the investigations in recent years on the ecological environment, including the pollution of Qilu Lake, it not only reflects the inadequate protection and control measures and the inadequate pollution prevention and control work, but also reflects the serious formalism and bureaucracy of the local party committee and government. And the distorted and misplaced view of political performance even more reflects that some leading cadres do not have a high political position, do not have a strong sense of the overall situation, and ignore political discipline and political rules.
How effective is the in-depth investigation of "direct investigation, direct management, and live broadcast"?
The personnel of relevant units have been held accountable seriously, and the pollution problem is being solved
On May 17, after the Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced the typical case of "The long-term failure to improve the water quality of Qilu Lake pollution treatment in Yuxi, Yunnan Province", the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection initiated a case for fraud and fraud in the pollution treatment of Qilu Lake. A comprehensive and in-depth investigation and verification was carried out by means of "direct investigation, direct management, and live broadcast", and the relevant functional departments were urged to make timely rectification.
"In this'direct investigation, direct management, and live broadcast', investigation and verification and production of feature films were carried out at the same time, and how to conduct investigations and how the investigation progressed was exposed to the sun in a timely manner, and how to make corrections and how to make improvements and improvements were made public to the public In front of him." The person in charge of the relevant department of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision introduced that this kind of feature film presentation of the review and investigation process and results can not only present investigations, promote rectification, accountability, etc., from multiple angles and all aspects, but also Emphasize "two-way supervision" so that both the supervisor and the supervised accept the supervision of the society and the masses.
The investigation team went straight to the front line of the incident, and successively went deep into the Hongqi River estuary, the Gongyang section of the ecological storage belt around the lake, the Zhewan River estuary, the second station of the Qilu Lake water quality improvement project, and the pollution interception in the Haitian area of Shijie. Investigate the storage tanks, the Wanjiadugou regulation storage sedimentation pond, etc., and visit the relevant functional departments to understand the rectification situation and trace the root cause of the problem.
As the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Committee promotes direct inspection and direct inspection, and the provincial, municipal, and county-level discipline inspection commissions jointly carry out their work, the effect will soon be apparent.
On May 21, the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection issued the "Disciplinary Inspection Recommendations on the Inadequate Control of Agricultural Non-point Source Pollution in Tonghai County" to the Tonghai County Party Committee, urging Tonghai County to effectively solve the problem of agricultural non-point source pollution.
That night, the first episode of "The Cry of Qilu Lake" was broadcast, directly pointing to the problem of Qilu Lake, which is "worse in nature than some other environmental issues exposed recently."
The problem of fraud and long-term failure to improve water quality in Qilu Lake's management is not a simple speculation and fraud, but some party members, cadres, businessman bosses, experts, brokers and so on. The unspoken rules are chains, forming interest groups. They shield each other, penetrate each other's power, money, and technology, and extend their magical claws to state-owned funds and major projects, causing "the pain of Qilu Lake" and "the death of Qilu Lake."
The Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection promptly and decisively took lien measures against several persons under investigation who were suspected of illegal or criminal conduct in their duties in the pollution control of Qilu Lake, and who may have statutory obstacles to the investigation.
According to the report, Luo Yingguang was severely warned and punished by the party. He has been expelled from the party and public office for serious violations of discipline and law. The existing problems have been dealt with and the case has been dealt with; the other 28 persons responsible have also been held accountable.
Insisting on "checking bribery and bribery, and checking bribery and bribery", the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Committee of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, together with the briber, put forward its handling opinions when handling bribery cases.
Five people including Ye Guobing, general manager of Yunnan Juguang Technology Co., Ltd. and vice chairman of Yunnan Zhonghuang Environmental Protection Industry Co., Ltd., have been detained to cooperate with the investigation due to suspected bribery of government officials in the pollution control of Qilu Lake.
Under deterrence, Deng Jiazhong, director of the Ecological Civilization Construction Division of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Ecological Environment, chose to take the initiative to submit the case.
The investigation found that the Yuxi Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, Tonghai County Party Committee, and County Government did not study and implement Xi Jinping’s thoughts on ecological civilization, and did not fully implement the major decisions of the central and provincial Party committees. Formalism and bureaucracy became more and more intensified, and inactions developed to openness Falsification; distorted and misplaced views on political achievements, distorted thoughts, and falsification; self-willed decision-making, lack of procedures and rules, and lack of supervision have led to fraudulent projects; behind the natural ecological pollution, there is political ecological pollution, and there are corruption problems such as collusion between officials and businessmen and the transmission of benefits .
Six units including Yuxi Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, Tonghai County Party Committee and County Government were notified and accountable.
After "direct investigation, direct management, and live broadcast", Tonghai County added equipment to treat the siltated sewage in the rivers entering the lake, and dredged the major rivers entering the lake such as Hongqi River, Wanjiadagou, Zhonghe, and Yaogou, and the silt has been cleared. 2,400 cubic meters, 10506 cubic meters of sewage treated.
The county quickly adjusted the planting structure, planting 4,000 mu of flue-cured tobacco and 1,000 mu of rice in the Qilu Lake Basin, and compressing the vegetable planting area of 10,000 mu in the lake basin compared with the same period last year.
Reporter Li Lingna