Treating stubborn ecological problems and promoting green development

  7 years, 2 rounds of inspections, full coverage of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps - the central ecological and environmental protection inspection system has been developed from scratch, continuously improved, and achieved remarkable results: "Party and government responsibility" for ecological and environmental protection "One post with two responsibilities" has been effectively implemented, a large number of outstanding ecological and environmental problems have been solved, and the whole society's attention to ecological environmental protection and the recognition of ecological civilization construction have been significantly strengthened.

  "Among all the means to promote the construction of ecological civilization, the central ecological and environmental protection inspector is the most powerful and the most effective." Relevant experts from the Development Research Center of the State Council said that the improvement of the ecological environment that people have felt in recent years is inseparable from the central ecological environment. Strong urge to protect the inspector.

  Check the problem

  Consolidate the responsibility of ecological and environmental protection

  "Why didn't the clean-up and rectification come into place in time? Why is there a blind spot in supervision?" On April 7 this year, Wu Zhenglong, secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, came to two shipping companies in Zhenjiang, and asked while watching, supervising the rectification work of the central ecological and environmental protection inspector on the spot. .

  Just the day before, Zhenjiang was included in the second round of the sixth batch of typical cases notified by the central ecological and environmental protection inspectors due to "ineffective progress in cleaning and remediation of the shoreline of the main stream of the Yangtze River and prominent ecological and environmental problems".

Among them, Anfeng Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Zhenxing Marine Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. located on the banks of the Yangtze River were found by the inspection team to fill the river beach with construction waste and industrial solid waste to erode the river surface and damage the ecology of the Yangtze River coastline.

  In fact, these two shipping companies are not "first offenses".

As early as the end of 2019, the problem of its occupation of the river beach has been reported and rectified.

However, cleaning up and rectifying lax and untruthful "footballs" could not escape the "eyes" of the inspection team in the end.

  If the central ecological and environmental protection inspector is likened to a "physical examination", then the discovery of "hidden diseases" is the inspector's primary responsibility.

Inspectors are usually stationed in the "pulse" for only one month. In order to accurately and effectively find problems, it is very important to focus on the key points, do homework, and rely on the masses.

  According to Zhai Qing, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, each province has different characteristics of the ecological environment and faces different resource and environmental constraints. The inspector will study and determine the focus of attention and the direction of finding problems according to the specific situation.

Moreover, the preparation work of the inspectors often takes several months or even half a year. On the eve of the inspection, the inspectors sort out clues from the daily grasp of the situation, extensively solicit the opinions of relevant departments and units, carry out large-scale unannounced investigations and unannounced visits, and master a large number of First-hand material.

Among the inspectors, they also make full use of satellite remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicles, infrared imaging and other technical equipment, and use a variety of technical means to find problems.

  "Relying on the masses is also a very important point." Zhai Qing said that each batch of inspectors and each province can receive thousands of reports from the masses. Inspectors made in-depth analysis and on-site verification, and found a large number of prominent ecological and environmental problems. clue.

Statistics show that the two rounds of inspectors have accepted 287,000 mass ecological environment petition reports, and 285,000 have been rectified so far.

  Going towards the problem and taking responsibility is the guide that the central ecological and environmental protection inspector has always adhered to.

At the beginning of this year, the Central Office and the State Office issued the "Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervision and Rectification Work Measures", which clarified that provincial party committees and governments are the main bodies of responsibility for rectification, and required the inspected objects to seek truth from facts and scientifically formulate supervision and rectification plans and put forward rectification goals. , path measures, completion time limit, etc., and pay close attention to the rectification and implementation work within the specified time.

The inspection and rectification plan and implementation must be reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and made public to the public for supervision by the masses.

  Seeing things, seeing people, and seeing responsibilities, the central ecological and environmental protection inspector effectively transmits pressure, effectively compacts responsibilities, and casts a "sharp sword" to protect the beautiful ecological environment.

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  Solve outstanding ecological and environmental problems

  Open the search engine and search with the keywords of "typical cases of central ecological and environmental protection inspectors", and it is not difficult to see a number of cases with "pictures, shadows, and truth".

In the past 7 years, the inspection team has disclosed 262 typical cases in batches, and each "calling" has attracted widespread attention from the society.

  According to reports, starting from 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has organized staff to go deep into 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt every year to shoot and produce ecological environment warning films of the Yangtze River Economic Belt through unannounced visits and clear investigations.

"The problem-oriented and intuitive image of the warning film has a strong sense of presence and warning, and has played a very good role in promoting the solution of the problem." Zhai Qing said.

  Identifying and exposing problems is all about solving problems.

From the protection of the Yangtze River coastline to the renovation of illegal low enclosures in Dongting Lake, from the ecological restoration of the Qilian Mountains to the renovation of illegal villas in the Qinling Mountains, the central ecological and environmental protection inspectors are closely watching the implementation of ecological and environmental protection requirements in the implementation of major regional strategies, focusing on a series of typical ecological environment cases. , it really hit the hard way, promoted reforms with the case, and solved a number of prominent environmental problems.

  Root out "chronic diseases" with serious pollution and lagging environmental infrastructure construction——

  In Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, about 1.5 million tons of sludge produced by the urban sewage treatment plant was once stored in the barren hills and the stench was high.

During the central ecological and environmental protection inspection in 2017, nearby villagers reported the problem to the inspection team.

During the "Looking Back" process in 2018, the inspection team found that Shenyang City directly loaded some sludge into trucks without treatment, and the rectification work became "pollution moving".

In this regard, the inspection team once again gave feedback and asked for comprehensive rectification of the problem.

  Through hard work, all the sludge that once troubled the surrounding people has been properly disposed of.

The "waste" sludge has been demonstrated and tested by experts, and it has become a resource for power generation, biological composting, and brick making;

Under the strong promotion of the inspectors, the local area not only removed the "malignant tumor" of sludge that had been delayed for a long time, but also took a new step in the construction of livable villages.

  Healing the "scars" left by ecological damage and illegal development and construction——

  In April 2021, in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, the Central Eighth Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectorate found that the Erhegou first-class power station had started construction of a water intake in the core area and buffer zone of Wenshan National Nature Reserve without approval. , diversion canals and other facilities, resulting in the reduction of water and flow in some river sections in the reserve, threatening the regional ecological security.

  Under the promotion of the inspector, Wenshan Prefecture fully completed the demolition and re-greening of Erhegou First-class Power Station in just over a month.

Taking this as an opportunity, Yunnan Province accelerated the clean-up and rectification of small hydropower stations, and further strengthened the supervision of the ecological environment of nature reserves.

  Exposing the falsification and perfunctory dealing with the "fig leaf" of rectification——

  In Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, a large amount of domestic sewage was discharged into the Zao River, causing its water body to be black and smelly.

In May 2018, Shaanxi Province announced that it had "completed the sewage interception pipeline project in the urban section of the upper reaches of the Zao River", but in the "Look Back" in November, the inspection team found that the so-called pipeline network project was only temporarily dug in the Zao River channel. Open a "diversion tunnel" with a diameter of nearly 2 meters to transport sewage to the nearby municipal pipe network.

  Not only that, the water quality monitoring results in July 2018 showed that the water body of the 1.21-kilometer section of the Zao River reached the level of severe black and odor, but in a series of materials reported by Xi'an in 2018, it was stated that "there is no black and odorous water body".

  After being "named and criticized", the hard tricks to remediate the black and odorous water bodies of the Zao River have been implemented one after another.

Through multi-point water replenishment, the clean water from the northern valley of Qinling Mountains enters the city and enters the Zao River; the urban drainage pipe network is optimized to completely eliminate the risk of water pollution caused by the confluence pipeline discharging into the Zao River; the ecological revetments and greenway parks are gradually built, and the old stinky canals have turned into butterflies. A water park for citizens.

  In the past seven years, the central ecological and environmental protection inspector has written the "work summary" on the doorstep of the people.

Up to now, the 3,294 rectification tasks specified in the first round of inspections and the "Look Back" rectification plan have achieved 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.

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  Promote high-quality development

  As a major institutional innovation, the "sharp sword" of the central ecological and environmental protection inspector directly points to the stubborn ecological disease. "'Promoting development through inspection' has always been an important principle and basic starting point for the central ecological and environmental protection inspector." Zhai Qing said. , starting from the third batch of inspectors in the second round, the focus of the inspection is to strictly control the blind launch of "two high" projects and the "look back" of production capacity reduction. A number of illegal projects have been investigated and dealt with according to law, and a number of traditional industries have been optimized and upgraded. , a number of green industries to achieve accelerated development.

  Chengdu, Sichuan Province took the opportunity of air pollution prevention and rectification to promote the green development performance assessment of key industries such as steel and cement, vigorously develop the new energy automobile industry, and speed up the adjustment, transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure; Fuyang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province made every effort to promote the paper industry A total of 1,050 enterprises with backward production capacity have been eliminated. After the establishment of the Binfu Special Cooperation Zone, the added value of high-tech industries has reached more than 53%... Under the promotion of the inspectors, all localities take advantage of the situation to promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. .

  Huang Runqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the inspector is not to prevent the project from launching and development, but to further optimize the industrial structure and energy structure by curbing the blind launch of "two high" projects, and take a green, low-carbon and high-quality development path.

"We will leave enough time for local rectification and rectification, and guide the local government to adhere to the principle of 'setting up first and then breaking it' and not making 'sharp turns'," Huang Runqiu said.

  In order to better promote high-quality development, the inspection system itself is also constantly improving.

  Since 2017, multiple departments have continued to carry out the special action to strengthen the supervision of the "Green Shield" nature reserve, including the illegal occupation of nature reserves and the destruction of wetlands into the scope of the central ecological and environmental protection inspection, and implemented cross-departmental, cross-regional and cross-border joint law enforcement actions. , more than 5,000 key issues have been rectified.

  The second round of inspections launched in 2019 brought central enterprises and relevant departments of the State Council into the scope of inspections for the first time.

"Seven years of inspection work, summarizing and improving while practicing, based on the "Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspector Work Regulations" and "Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspector Rectification Work Measures" as an important basis, plus some basic templates and norms, formed a relatively A perfect inspection system." Zhai Qing said.

  Zhu Jinyi