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"I used to live near the mine, and it was dusty and dusty all day. Now I can finally open the window with confidence, and my white shirt won't get dirty after wearing it for a few days."
"It used to be that environmental protection work was the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Bureau, and it was like a 'one-man show'. Now, all municipal departments have moved to achieve a deeper level of inter-departmental collaboration."
"If we can have a professional team like the inspection team, problems may be discovered and solved as soon as possible - the central ecological and environmental protection inspector is a reminder as well as a guide and assistance."
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From 2015 to 2022, starting from the pilot inspection of Hebei Province, to the second round, inspections will be conducted in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, 2 departments and 6 central enterprises in six batches. Amid the praises from the people, local governments and enterprises, the two rounds of central ecological and environmental protection inspections have made solid progress and achieved remarkable results.
Various regions and departments have taken this opportunity to establish and improve a long-term mechanism for ecological and environmental protection, and coordinate to promote high-quality economic development and high-level protection of the ecological environment.
1. Eating away the "hard bones" and eliminating the "big problems"
As General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned and deployed the major institutional innovation and reform measures of the party and the country, the central ecological and environmental protection inspector focused on prominent contradictions and major problems in the field of ecological environment, gnawed away "hard bones", and eliminated "big problems". Promoting the implementation of the hard and practical measures of "the party and the government have the same responsibilities" and "one post with two responsibilities" for ecological environmental protection.
The inspected object regards inspection and rectification as a major political task, people's livelihood project and development issue, and organically integrates with major regional strategies such as the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and the "supervisor" and the "supervised" resonate at the same frequency. Let the common people enjoy the well-being of the people's livelihood brought by the improvement of the ecological environment.
In the Chaoshan Plain, the Lianjiang River, which originated in Puning, Jieyang and entered the sea from Chaoyang, Shantou, was named after the clear and meandering water of the river.
More than 6 million people live in the basin, and the density is six times that of the provincial average. Coupled with extensive economic development, since the 1990s, Lianjiang has become one of the most polluted rivers in Guangdong Province.
In 2018, the central ecological and environmental protection inspector "looked back" and reported the pollution of the Lianjiang River as a typical case.
Many people believe that it is impossible to treat this black and smelly river that has been polluted for decades in a short period of time.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary actions.
With the great attention and support of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, Shantou and Jieyang and Puning set off an endless battle of training and remediation of the river with the participation of the whole people.
In just 3 years, Lianjiang has achieved a major turning point in water quality from the universal black and odor to the elimination of the inferior V category in the national examination section, and then to the fourth category, making the "impossible" a "possible".
There are also large central enterprises that have turned similar "impossible" into "possible".
In August 2021, when inspecting Daye Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Daye Nonferrous Metals", a subsidiary of China Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd.), the sixth central ecological and environmental protection inspection team found that Daye Nonferrous Metals' main responsibilities were not fully implemented. , the environmental pollution is serious, and the hidden dangers are prominent.
The Taiye Nonferrous Fengshan Copper Mine tailings pond is only more than 800 meters away from the main stream of the Yangtze River. In 2012, the tailings pond was expanded, and the EIA approval required the construction of a 2,550-meter flood intercepting ditch, but the company has not implemented it, resulting in a large amount of rainwater mixed with tailings wastewater. Straight up the Yangtze River.
Since 2017, the local government and relevant departments have interviewed or sent letters seven times to urge Daye Nonferrous Metals to rectify the outstanding ecological and environmental problems, but the company has perfunctory.
"This inspection has profoundly exposed Daye Nonferrous's 'environmental debts' that have existed for many years, and also made us fully realize that 'green determines life and death'." Daye Nonferrous Party Secretary and Chairman Zhang Jinjun said.
After the problem was exposed, Daye Nonferrous immediately held the responsible persons accountable.
In the tailings pond of Fengshan Copper Mine, in addition to the completion of the construction of a new 3,150-meter flood intercepting ditch, the original 700-meter flood intercepting ditch was also dredged.
At present, the company plans to invest 1.717 billion yuan to implement 202 environmental protection projects to drive green and high-quality development in the future.
The remediation of the Lianjiang and Fengshan copper mines is the epitome of the problem-solving push by the inspectors.
After each inspection feedback, the inspected objects take the inspection and rectification as an opportunity to promote industrial structure adjustment and layout optimization around the major strategies of the service area, and strive to achieve a win-win situation in economic, environmental and social benefits.
2. "Small problems" for the masses, "big things" for inspectors
In the early morning of summer, Zhangzhidong Sports Park, located in Hanyang District, Wuhan City, welcomed a group of fitness enthusiasts with happy smiles on their faces.
The Sports Park is located at the head of Yuehu Bridge on Qintai Avenue beside the Han River. Looking at the rushing Han River and the green Guishan Mountain, the park is full of flowers and flowers.
This situation is unimaginable. This ecologically blessed land of hundreds of thousands of people in the surrounding area was a dirty and messy place three years ago.
During the first round of “Looking Back” of the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectors in 2018, the inspection team handed over a batch of letters and visits, reflecting the long-term cross-flow of sewage and garbage in the cooling pool plot of the Hanyang Steel Plant in Wuhan City, and the citizens were eager for the government to remove the “dirty, messy, messy”. ", also green to the people.
The ecological environment is no trivial matter, and the people's affairs are no trivial matter.
The Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government and the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attach great importance to this, and regard it as a typical case of managing the environment for the benefit of the common people and jointly grasping the protection of the Yangtze River. They have taken effective measures to consolidate their responsibilities at all levels, be practical and meticulous, and grasp it to the end.
In 2019, more than 2,000 square meters of illegal buildings were all demolished, and green trees were planted on the plot to build a street garden.
In 2020, the local government invested 58 million yuan to build Jiexin Garden into a sports park, which will be put into use in April 2021.
Let's look at the Lianjiang River in Guangdong, where water control and new life are created.
A clear river passes through Donghua Village, Longtian Town, Shantou City, and joins the Lianjiang River not far away.
The vegetation on both sides of the strait is lush, and the small farmyard is reflected on the water, giving it a unique charm of a water town.
"In the past, the river ditches in the village were dark and smelly, and garbage was thrown everywhere; now it's different, and it's much more comfortable to live in the village." According to local villagers, driven by the management of the Lianjiang River, Donghua Village seized the opportunity to develop New opportunities, developing rural tourism, planting guava, sunshine rose grapes and high-quality rice, have become a well-known "Internet celebrity village", and the villagers have truly lived a good life of "relying on water for water".
Always adhere to the principle of "people first", and regard "small issues" concerning the vital interests of the masses as "big things" for ecological and environmental protection inspectors.
Through various means such as supervising and reforming, strengthening return visits, and information disclosure, the inspectors have solved the problems of black and odorous water bodies, dust on construction sites, cooking fumes, garbage piles, and noise disturbing the people around a large number of people, making the people's sense of gain, The sense of happiness and security is constantly improving.
3. "Draw a definite image" and "take a good pulse" for the inspector
Throughout the seven years of inspection practice, precision, science, and law have always run through it.
Accuracy means focusing on key areas of central concern, social concern, and public concern, and focusing on prominent issues that are universal, systematic, and strongly reflected by the masses; science means being good at inspecting from the source, grasping the relationship between development and protection, and respecting ecology The objective laws of environmental protection, improve the scientificity and effectiveness of work; according to the law, is to strengthen the concept of the rule of law, use the rule of law method, carry out inspections in accordance with laws and regulations, and formulate 110 system norms and template paradigms, so that inspectors have rules to follow , to ensure that inspection results stand the test of history and the people.
The development stage, resource endowment, and environmental capacity of various provinces vary greatly. Adhering to accurate, scientific, and lawful inspections requires grasping the main contradictions and the main aspects of the contradictions, and "painting the right image" and "taking a good pulse" for the inspection object.
For example, Hubei is a province with thousands of lakes, filling lakes and occupying lakes, illegal development, and lake governance are always the focus of attention; Guangxi is ecologically sensitive, and inspectors focus on issues such as ecological environmental protection of the Li River, excessive mining and digging to destroy the ecology; Hainan is surrounded by four sides. Sea, inspectors focus on marine ecological protection, focusing on illegal land reclamation, destruction of mangroves and other issues; Northeast China is rich in resources, inspectors focus on issues such as insufficient protection of forests and black soil... Obviously, only through accurate, scientific, and lawful inspections Only by pointing directly at local problems, taking real action and taking responsibility seriously, can we pinpoint the crux of the construction of ecological civilization in various places and dig out the root causes of environmental problems, so as to promote the elimination of "stubborn diseases" in the local area and develop lightly.
In the past seven years, the central ecological and environmental protection inspector has developed and innovated all the way from establishment and implementation to perfection.
In April 2021, the second round of the third batch of central ecological and environmental protection inspectors was launched.
This batch of inspectors presents many new features: first, the composition of the inspection team leaders, instead of the previous practice of being the deputy minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, has a number of responsible comrades from other departments as the deputy team leaders to further form a joint force; second, The key content of the inspection is to pay close attention to the implementation of major regional strategies such as the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and to strictly control the blind launch of "two high" projects and the implementation of "look back" to reduce production capacity. The construction of environmental infrastructure highlights problems such as shortcomings and major ecological damage; the third is the form of public disclosure of typical cases, and the method of "text + pictures + video" is adopted for the first time, with pictures, shadows and truth, strengthening the warning and deterrent effect; the fourth is the method of supervision. , pay more attention to finding clues, finding problems, and determining evidence through unannounced and unannounced visits and squatting investigations. New technologies and new equipment such as remote sensing satellites and drones come in handy, and big data analysis is also "big data", providing inspectors with "clairvoyance" "Omniscient".
Entering a new historical stage, the party and the state have put forward higher requirements for the inspection work, and the masses have also given more expectations.
In 2022, the "Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervision and Rectification Work Measures" will be issued to strengthen the coordination and linkage of "supervisors" and "supervisors", and focus on rectifying the "second half of the article" to form a closed management loop.
"To talk about the effectiveness of the inspectors, 'carry out central ecological and environmental protection inspections, resolutely investigate and deal with a number of major and typical cases that damage the ecological environment, and solve a number of outstanding environmental problems that the people have strongly reflected on' is written into the "Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Centennial of the Party" "Resolution on Major Achievements and Historical Experience" is the best evaluation of the inspector's work." Many industry experts said.
As of the end of April 2022, there were 3,294 rectification tasks specified in the first round of inspections and the "look back" rectification plan, with an overall completion rate of 95%.
Half of the 1,227 rectification tasks specified in the first three batches of rectification plans in the second round have been completed.
The fourth, fifth and sixth batches of inspection and rectification are being actively and orderly advanced.
The two rounds of inspectors accepted a total of 287,000 petition reports on the ecological environment from the public, and 285,000 have been completed or completed in stages.
(Reporter Zhang Lei of this newspaper)