What did the central environmental protection inspection team find out when opening the list of problems?

Reporter Ma Xueling

“The awareness of environmental protection bottom line of relevant personnel in Chang’an district and Yanliang district of Xi’an city is not strong, which artificially interferes with the normal operation of the national air quality monitoring sub-station and counterfeits air quality monitoring data, causing adverse effects”

This is a list of problems issued by the central environmental protection inspection team, known as the “environmental management”, to Shaanxi. On the 11th, the official website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced the feedback of the sixth central environmental protection inspection team to Shaanxi province, opening the second batch of central environmental protection inspectors in 2016.

On April 11, the sixth central environmental protection inspection team reported the supervision situation to Shaanxi province. Official website of Ministry of Environmental Protection

“Environmental Protection Award” handed in the paper, what problems did Shaanxi find?

On the 11th, the sixth central environmental protection inspection team pointed out that Shaanxi province attached great importance to the work of the central environmental protection supervision. As of the end of February, 2017, 1309 environmental reports assigned by the inspection team have been completed, 222 have been shut down and banned, 363 have been punished, 26 have been detained, 492 have been interviewed and 938 have been held accountable.

In the notification, the inspection team listed the main problems existing in Shaanxi:

— Some local leaders still believe that economic development is a hard task and environmental protection is a soft indicator.

During the inspector’s conversation, many leaders reflected that there was still a gap in the province’s understanding of environmental protection. Some local leaders still believed that economic development was a hard task and environmental protection was a soft indicator, so they were hard at work, the first hand is soft, and the environmental protection work is relatively passive.

For example, it should have become the new West Ham of implementing the demonstration area of new development concept. In practical work, it is re-developed and lightly protected. Nearly 40000 tons of industrial wastewater and domestic sewage are discharged into direct drainage pits or rivers without treatment every day.

Another example is that the Guanzhong region, which has already highlighted the problem of air pollution due to historical reasons, is still building and expanding a large number of high-pollution projects in recent years.

And, the coal reduction work of the Development and Reform Commission is not real, and the work of eliminating backward production capacity in the industrial and information departments is not effective, which leads to serious environmental pollution.

Data Picture: on January 4, 2017, the urban area of Xi’an was “hazy”, and in recent days, Guanzhong, Shaanxi province suffered from smog. China News Service reporter Zhang Yuan Photo

— Monitoring data of fake air quality of relevant personnel in Chang’an district and Yanliang district of Xi’an City

The inspection team pointed out that the situation of atmospheric environment quality in Guanzhong region is severe, and Xi’an city has become one of the capital cities with serious pollution in the country. The average concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 in the atmosphere in Xianyang city and Weinan City both increased significantly compared with 2015, however, a large number of new and expanded high pollution projects are still being built in this region.

In addition to air pollution, the inspection team also reported the water problem: due to the inadequate construction of sewage pipe networks in some areas of Xi’an, several sewage treatment plants adopt the method of “adding sewage to rivers and extracting rivers” to collect and treat sewage, since 2015, the water quality of two sections of Tianjiang rendu and Geng town bridge in Xi’an section of Weihe River is still inferior to Class V. After the construction of Jiangcun ditch landfill site in 1994, it has been directly discharging landfill leachate to tangjiazhai reservoir, especially since November 2015, due to the serious shortage of treatment capacity of landfill leachate plant, about 1800 tons of landfill leachate is discharged into the reservoir without treatment every day, causing serious environmental pollution and potential risks, which is strongly reflected by the masses.

In addition, the Environmental Protection bottom line awareness of relevant personnel in Chang’an district and Yanliang district of Xi’an city is not strong, which artificially interferes with the normal operation of the national air quality monitoring sub-station and counterfeits air quality monitoring data, causing adverse effects.

— Jingyang county government and relevant departments illegally supply electricity and explosives to quarrying enterprises

The inspection team pointed out that in recent years, mining quarries in Qinling region have destroyed the ecology seriously. According to the analysis of satellite remote sensing monitoring data in 2016, more than 60% of the 270 mining points in the region have illegal and illegal problems, the ecological damage area has reached more than 3,500 hectares.

Among them, Dongshan magyan mine, dachanggou granite mine and Huxian Liyu stone mine in Lantian County are all located in Qinling restricted development zone. Without obtaining the access procedures of Qinling Ecological Environment Protection Management Agency in Xi’an, the Land and Resources Bureau of the two counties still issued exploitation license to the three enterprises in violation of regulations around 2014.

Jingyang county and Chunhua county were also named by the inspection team. Among them, Jingyang county government and relevant departments illegally supply construction electricity and explosives to quarrying enterprises; The rectification work in Chunhua county is not effective, and 7 quarrying enterprises such as Yuantong and Boda illegally exploit during the rectification period.

Screenshot of the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection

In addition to Shaanxi, which provinces are waiting for feedback?

The reporter from zhongxin.com noticed that in addition to Shaanxi, six provinces including Beijing and Shanghai will welcome feedback from the environmental protection inspection team.

From last late November to the end of December, the second batch of 7 central environmental protection inspection teams in 2016 respectively supervised Beijing, Shanghai, Hubei, Guangdong, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces (cities).

According to the notification from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, as of December 30, 2016, 7 inspection teams had accepted 26330 reports (including 16999 calls and 9331 letters). After sorting out and analyzing, they had combined repeated reports, A total of 15396 effective reports were assigned to the inspected place.

At that time, the local government had completed 12005 cases, of which 10512 were ordered to rectify, 5779 were put on case and fined 243.032 million yuan; 595 were put on case and investigated, and 287 people were detained (including administrative and criminal); 4066 people were interviewed and 2682 people were held accountable.

Data map: In October, 2016, the vicinity of Beijing International Trade Center was covered by smog, reducing visibility. FOOD-SWEET photo

Minister of Environmental Protection: this year, the central environmental protection inspector will be fully covered.

In July 2015, the 14th meeting of the central deep reorganization deliberated and approved the “environmental protection supervision plan (Trial)”, and clearly established the environmental protection supervision mechanism. The supervision work will be carried out in the form of the central environmental protection inspection team to the provincial, district and municipal party committees, governments and their relevant departments, and will sink to some municipal Party committees and government departments.

According to the arrangement, from 2016, the central environmental protection inspection team will use about 2 years to inspect all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the country.

After carrying out the pilot in Hebei, in July 2016, the first batch of eight central environmental protection inspection teams successively entered Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangxi, Yunnan and Ningxia, A month-long environmental supervision work was carried out. As of November 23 of that year, the feedback of the first batch of central environmental inspectors was released, and the total number of people held accountable in 8 provinces exceeded 3400.

Plus the 7 provinces that have been fed back and waiting for feedback, so far, the central environmental protection inspector has covered 16 provinces.

The reporter of zhongxin.com noticed that Chen Jining, minister of environmental protection, had said on several occasions that in 2017, the central environmental protection inspector would be “fully covered” and would organize inspectors to “look back” in due course “. (Finished)

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Beijing, Beijing, April 12 (Xinhua) question: What did the central environmental protection inspection team find out about the problem list “environmental care? Reporter Ma Xueling, “the environmental protection bottom line awareness of relevant personnel in Chang’an district and Yanliang district of Xi’an is not strong, and human interference with the national air quality monitoring sub-station is