In the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate, there are government officials who are "answering" for farmers in
Jilin's black land, which is ineffectively protected and repeatedly destroyed. Shandong Wetland Park's protection responsibilities are not fulfilled in place.
The picture shows that the inspection team used drones to shoot in September 2021 and found that a large-scale grit tank was excavated and built in the Liangshanbo National Wetland Park in the construction of the first-level pumping station of the West Line of the Yellow River Diversion Project in Jining City, Shandong Province.
Photo courtesy of the Inspectorate
□ Our reporter Yan Jianrong
Six projects in Fuyu City, Jilin Province occupies black land, and no topsoil stripping has been implemented, causing black land to be covered and destroyed, covering an area of 8.83 hectares.
Eighteen government-led large-scale projects in Shandong Province occupied wetland parks without approval.
These are two typical cases recently notified by the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate.
In September of this year, the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate (hereinafter referred to as the Inspectorate Team) conducted a one-month second round of inspections in Jilin Province and Shandong Province.
During the sinking period, the inspection team discovered that some black land in Songyuan and Fuyu in Jilin Province was damaged; some urban wetland parks in Shandong Province had serious violations of regulations.
While exposing the problem, the inspection team also criticized local violations of laws and regulations.
The inspection team pointed out that Fuyu City has not done enough to protect the black land, the implementation of work measures has been compromised, and the relevant departments of Songyuan City have obviously not been in place.
Shandong Province has been approved for inadequate performance of the protection and management responsibilities of wetland parks.
The implementation of protection policies is greatly reduced
Jilin Province is located in the hinterland of black soil in the northeast, and more than 90% of the arable land in the province is black soil.
The black land is not only regarded as the "giant panda in the cultivated land", but whether the black land is well protected or not is related to food security.
In July 2018, Jilin Province promulgated the "Regulations on the Protection of Black Land in Jilin Province" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") to protect black land in accordance with the law.
According to the inspection team, before and after the implementation of the "Regulations," Jilin also issued relevant policies.
Among them, in 2013, Jilin Province issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Soil Stripping of Cultivated Land for Construction", which put forward the requirements for the stripping of topsoil of cultivated land occupied by construction, and clarified the methods and basic requirements for stripping; in 2015, it issued the "Construction Occupation Technical Specifications for the Stripping of Cultivated Land Topsoil; In 2019, the "Administrative Measures for the Stripping of Cultivated Land Surfaces Occupied by Construction in Jilin Province (Trial)" was promulgated.
Whether it is the "Regulations" or policy documents, the point is very clear that the black land in Jilin must be protected.
Fuyu City has 5.1 million mu of arable land, of which 4.3 million mu is black land.
It must be emphasized that the black soil of Fuyu City is located in the typical black soil area of Northeast China. In addition, Fuyu City is also a famous grain-producing county in the country.
In September this year, the inspection team conducted a second round of inspections in Jilin Province and found that Fuyu and other places had not implemented the "Regulations" well and large areas of black land had been destroyed when it sank to Fuyu City.
The inspection team pointed out that in accordance with the "Regulations" and related policies, topsoil stripping must be done before construction projects occupy black land.
However, the inspector found that from 2018 to 2020, six projects in Fuyu City occupied black land, but none of them had implemented topsoil stripping, causing black land to be covered and destroyed, covering an area of 8.83 hectares.
Among them, in 2018, Fuyu City's First Experimental School started construction, occupying 5.78 hectares of black land; Songyuan Blues Circular Economy Fuyu Co., Ltd. 25,000 tons of potato products project was not approved, occupying 1.51 hectares of black land, not only did not implement topsoil Stripping, and also use the black soil of the cultivated layer excavated from the construction of waste water storage ponds for roadbed construction.
"Shanying Paper's 1 million tons of pulping and annual production of 1 million tons of industrial packaging paper project occupies 157.71 hectares of black land. According to the topsoil stripping implementation plan, 491,600 cubic meters of topsoil should be stripped." The inspection team said that the relevant departments of Fuyu City have completed the project. The stripping was checked and accepted, but 325,000 cubic meters of stripped was actually measured on site, and the stripped area and thickness did not meet the requirements of the stripping implementation plan. Shanying Paper had a pile of stripped topsoil.
Local governments have a unified "caliber" to deal with inspectors
Realizing the reduction of fertilizers and pesticides, the increase of efficiency and total control is an effective measure to curb the degradation of black soil.
In this regard, the "Regulations" stipulate that "People's governments at or above the county level shall organize the implementation of soil testing and formula fertilization, support the research and development, production and application of organic fertilizers, encourage land operators to accumulate and apply farmyard manure and other organic fertilizers, and reduce the use of chemical fertilizers. "Strictly control the use of pesticides."
In accordance with the requirements of the "Regulations", the inspection team found that the fertilizer reduction and pesticide control data in Fuyu City were not true, and the reporting of the fertilizer reduction data was calculated by farmers.
“Fuyu City did not carry out a fixed-point survey on the use of chemical fertilizers as required, but calculated the amount of use based on farmers’ planting habits. The fertilizer reduction data was'going together', and the investigation and statistics were untrue." The inspection team pointed out that the investigation and statistics on the use of chemical fertilizers in Taolaizhao Town The table shows that although the planting land conditions are different, the reduction ratio of chemical fertilizer application per unit area of farmers in the same village is exactly the same; the reduction ratio of chemical fertilizer application in the eight survey households in Wujin Village in 2020 compared with 2019 is 9.09%. Compared with 2018, the reduction ratio is 5.71%; the reduction ratio of chemical fertilizer application in 2020 in the 10 surveyed households in Yongli Village is 5.17% compared with 2019, and the reduction ratio of chemical fertilizer application in 2019 is 3.33% compared with 2018.
However, the inspection team randomly visited the farmers on the questionnaire and found that some farmers had increased the amount of fertilizer used in order to increase production, which was contrary to the trend of the data reported by the local authorities.
The inspector also found a similar situation in Fuyu City's pesticide survey statistics.
To make matters worse, in order to deal with the inspectors, Fuyu City even resorted to fraud.
"People's governments at or above the county level shall formulate plans for reducing the use of agricultural input products such as pesticides and fertilizers, set up agricultural input waste recycling points, improve recycling, storage and transportation, and comprehensive utilization networks, and implement centralized and harmless agricultural input wastes. Deal with it." This is a clear provision made by the "Regulations."
However, “the relevant departments of Fuyu City uniformly arrange the general knowledge and precautions of black soil inspections to all towns in the jurisdiction, and distribute theoretical reference data such as the use of fertilizers and pesticides and the recovery rate of agricultural film from 2018 to 2020, instructing all towns to have a unified approach. It is required that when the inspection team asks for the materials, it should not be given out all at once, and the relevant data must be taken from field investigations." What is more ridiculous is that when the inspection team visited the farmers, "the staff of the relevant departments repeatedly "answered" and reminded the farmers to pay attention. Statement." The inspection team pointed out that the practice of some departments in Fuyu City is really to deal with inspections and resort to fraud.
Occupying more than 100 hectares of wetland park illegally
The management of some wetland parks in some prefectures and cities in Shandong Province is chaotic, and the illegal occupation of wetland parks by construction projects was also verified during the second round of inspections of Shandong Province by the inspection team in September this year.
According to the inspection team, Shandong Province has built 200 wetland parks, including 66 national wetland parks and 134 provincial wetland parks.
However, “some cities in Shandong Province pay little attention to the protection and construction of wetland parks. Some wetland parks have not been protected and constructed in accordance with their overall plans since they were approved for establishment. Park Acceptance Measures (Trial).” According to the inspection team, Shandong Province has only completed the acceptance assessment of two provincial-level wetland parks, and there are still 12 national wetland parks and 98 provincial-level wetland parks that have not completed the establishment of landmarks.
At the same time, due to poor protection, the dry land was deserted and the protected objects were lost, and some wetland parks could only be withdrawn.
The inspection team stated that Longqi Lake in Dongying District of Dongying City, Taiping River in Lijin County of Dongying City, Xiejia River in Taishan District of Tai'an City, Laosengtang in Jiaxiang County of Jining City and other provincial wetland parks are all due to degradation of ecological functions and loss of resource utilization value. Revoke.
The inspection team also discovered that a large number of wetland parks in Shandong Province had been illegally occupied when it sank.
The inspection team said that in recent years, at least 18 government-led large-scale construction projects in some prefectures and cities in Shandong Province occupied wetland parks without approval.
The inspector also found out that 115 fish ponds and greenhouse nursery sheds were constructed illegally in the conservation area of the Yellow River National Wetland Park in Dongming County, Heze City, covering an area of 51.93 hectares.
In 2014, Jinan Guolin New Building Materials Co., Ltd. illegally built a new production project in the Longshan Lake Provincial Wetland Park rational use zone, occupying 5.49 hectares of the wetland park. It is still producing illegally and has serious ecological damage.
The inspection team also disclosed that the pumping station and grit tank in the first-level pumping station construction project of the West Yellow River Diversion Project of Jining City will permanently occupy about 115.27 hectares of Liangshanbo National Wetland Park, but this project is only constructed without protection, and has ecological impacts. The report and the ecological restoration plan did not include the excavation of the grit tank during the construction period and the dredging of the grit tank during the operation period into the evaluation and the development of protection measures. The follow-up ecological restoration and supervision budget investment was only 150,800 yuan, and it was not actually used for ecological protection and restoration. .
According to the inspection team, during the on-site inspection, large-scale grit ponds were being excavated in the conservation area, causing serious ecological damage.
When inspecting in Shandong Province, the inspection team also found that the Chengbo Lake Provincial Wetland Park in Jiyang District, Jinan City divides the wetland park into 9 areas including mountain and forest recreation areas. The 9 areas are all tourist or commercial functional areas. The construction of playgrounds, parking lots, residential areas and office buildings has problems such as over-development and insufficient protection.
In October 2020, during the implementation of the Hekou Coastal Wetland Rehabilitation Project in Wudi County, Binzhou City, Shandong Shenli Enterprise Development Co., Ltd. planted the Yellow River Island National Wetland Park in Shandong Province for more than 10 years without ecological assessment and approval. The profitable 162 mu of ash forest is planted with Tamarix after stubble.
Due to the inappropriate planting season, most tamarisks did not survive, and their ecological functions have not yet been fully restored.
The inspection team stated that for the problems in Jilin and Shandong provinces discovered by the inspectors, the inspection team will further investigate and verify the relevant situation while the local authorities initiate relevant rectifications, and will do a good job of follow-up inspections as required.