Over the past five years, Qinghai has concluded environmental resource cases and handled more than 10,000 public interest litigation cases in the field of ecological environment

　　China News Agency, Xining, January 16 (Qi Zengbei) The first meeting of the 14th Qinghai Provincial People's Congress held its second plenary meeting in Xining, Qinghai on the 16th.

The reporter learned from the meeting that in the past five years, courts in Qinghai have concluded 9,371 environmental resource cases; the procuratorial organs of Qinghai Province have handled a total of 3,269 public interest litigations in the field of ecological environment, and supervised the restoration of 388,000 mu of destroyed cultivated land, forest land, and grassland.

　　Qinghai Province, located in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is the birthplace of the Yellow River, Yangtze River, and Lancang River, and is known as the "source of the three rivers".

Qinghai has the world's largest ecosystem of alpine wetlands, alpine grasslands, shrubs, and forests. It is also a resource bank of alpine organisms and natural species. It can be called an ecological province in China.

　　Zhang Zejun, president of the Qinghai Provincial Higher People's Court, said in his work report of the Qinghai Provincial Higher People's Court that in order to strengthen the judicial protection of the ecological environment, Qinghai Province formulated and promulgated the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Judicial Protection of Qinghai's Ecological Environment" to strengthen the ecological environment of the courts in the province. Environmental judicial protection has been further regulated, striving to effectively protect the ecology of the third pole of the earth with the strictest system and the strictest rule of law.

　　Over the past five years, Qinghai has actively explored a cross-administrative centralized jurisdiction system with the Sanjiangyuan, Qinghai Lake, and Qilian Mountain National Parks as its jurisdiction, and strived to build an environmental judicial model with Chinese characteristics and international influence.

　　On the same day, Zha Qingjiu, chief procurator of the Qinghai Provincial People's Procuratorate, introduced in his report on the work of the Qinghai Provincial People's Procuratorate that in the past five years, the Qinghai Provincial People's Procuratorate, the Qinghai Provincial Public Security Department, the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, and the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment have signed 15 work measures. The procuratorial organs along the Yellow River and around Qinghai Lake have established a coordination mechanism for ecological environment and resource protection, and established the Sanjiangyuan District Procuratorate to centralize jurisdiction over the province's cross-regional environmental and resource public interest litigation and criminal cases, making ecological procuratorial protection more powerful.

　　According to the report data, in the past five years, the procuratorial organs of Qinghai Province have carried out special procuratorial activities to supervise the filing of crimes that destroy ecological environment resources and serve the construction of Sanjiangyuan National Park, prosecuting 673 people for crimes such as environmental pollution, deforestation, and illegal fishing, a year-on-year increase of 55.4% .

　　In addition, in 2022, the Qinghai procuratorate will explore and carry out public interest litigation inspections of the ecological environment in the Sanjiangyuan area, the Qinghai Lake area, and the Qinghai area at the southern foot of the Qilian Mountains. A total of 3 inspection tours have been carried out throughout the year to handle public interest litigation such as the protection of naked carps in Qinghai Lake. 69 cases.

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