June 5th is the 49th World Environment Day. The theme of this year’s China Environment Day is "Beautiful China, I am an actor". On the eve of World Environment Day, the Department of Ecology and Environment released the bulletin on the ecological environment of Sichuan Province in 2019.
Last year, our province took the lead in developing the "three lines and one list" of the strategic environmental assessment of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China, and took the lead in passing the examination and acceptance of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment; Five cities with air quality standards were added, and Chengdu eliminated heavy pollution days for the first time; For the first time, the V-shaped sections with poor national and provincial assessments were completely eliminated, and the water environment quality reached the best level since the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan …
The communique issued this time not only takes stock of the existing ecological environment quality in our province, but also analyzes and judges the future trend. What are the bright data in the communique? What changes are reflected behind it? The reporter conducted an interview.
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The sky bluer
The rate of excellent days has steadily increased for four consecutive years.
Last year, our province officially put the improvement of atmospheric environmental quality in southern Sichuan and the control of air pollution in Chengdu Plain into the "No.1 Project" of environmental protection in the province, and implemented centralized attack. At present, the effect has begun to appear.
According to the communique, under the influence of adverse weather conditions, the number of days with good air quality in our province reached 89.1% last year, up 0.7 percentage points year-on-year. "This is the fourth consecutive year that the number of days with good air quality in our province has steadily increased since the implementation of the new air quality monitoring standard in 2016." Zhao Lechen, chief engineer of the Department of Ecology and Environment, said.
In addition, last year, our province added five cities with air quality standards, namely Suining, Ya ‘an, Ziyang, Guang ‘an and Neijiang. Together with Ganzi, Aba, Liangshan, Bazhong, Panzhihua and Guangyuan, the number of cities with air quality standards in our province has reached 11, achieving the goal of more than half of the total number of cities with air quality standards one year ahead of schedule.
"The heavily polluted weather in the province has been significantly reduced." Yan Xuejun, director of the Atmospheric Department of the Department of Ecology and Environment, said that last year Chengdu eliminated heavily polluted weather for the first time. In the winter of 2016, there was heavy pollution weather in Chengdu Plain for two consecutive weeks.
The joint prevention and control of air pollution prevention and control has been deepened. Last year, focusing on Chengdu Plain, southern Sichuan and other areas, our province implemented five major projects of "emission reduction, coal suppression, vehicle control, dust suppression and straw control", and continuously strengthened joint prevention and control of air pollution. In April this year, the Department of Ecology and Environment also signed the Agreement on Deepening the Joint Prevention and Control of Air Pollution in Sichuan and Chongqing with the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, which will highlight the coordinated prevention and control of mobile source pollution, PM2.5 and ozone pollution, so as to increase the number of excellent days in the two places and reduce the concentration of PM2.5, and continuously improve the ability and level of air pollution control.
According to the agreement, from June to December this year, Sichuan and Chongqing will carry out one or two times of air pollution prevention and control linkage assistance guidance and inspection and law enforcement for key industrial pollution sources, traffic pollution prevention and control, open burning control, polluted weather response, forecasting and early warning.
"Next, all localities should strengthen regional cooperation and joint prevention and control, and continue to maintain the prevention and control of air pollution, with the same direction and standards, so that the people of the province can enjoy more blue sky." Zhao Lechen said.
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Water is more clear
The excellent rate of water quality in the national examination section reached a new high
Last year, our province formulated ten river basin pollution prevention and control plans, and supervised 23 key small river basins by listing. The excellent and good water quality rate of 87 national examination sections was 96.6%, up 8.0 percentage points year-on-year. For the first time, the national and provincial assessment inferior V sections were completely eliminated, and the water environment quality reached the best level since the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan.
Behind the record high quality of water environment is the continuous improvement of water pollution prevention and control system in our province.
Rui Yongfeng, director of the Water Ecological Environment Division of the Department of Ecology and Environment, said that last year, our province promoted the promulgation of the Regulations on Water Environmental Protection in the Tuojiang River Basin of Sichuan Province. This is the first time that our province has legislated for a separate river basin to promote pollution control regulations, and established a positive incentive and reverse restraint mechanism to reward compliance, encourage improvement and punish deterioration, which also marks that the water environment protection work in Tuojiang River basin has entered the legal track.
The data shows that the water quality in the Tuojiang River Basin was greatly improved last year. Among the 16 national examination sections, 15 were excellent, accounting for 93.8%, up 31.3 percentage points year-on-year. "After gnawing this’ hard bone’, we have more confidence in water control." Yan Yongfeng said.
The move does not stop there. Last year, the Fujiang River Basin was included in the scope of special law enforcement inspection for the first time in our province, and together with Minjiang River and Tuojiang River, it was the top priority of water pollution prevention and control in our province. Three rounds of special law enforcement inspections in one and a half months finally found 396 environmental problems. After all of them were handed over to the local government for timely treatment, the water pollution problem around a large number of people was solved.
Monitoring efforts are constantly increasing. It is understood that last year, our province integrated the monitoring sites of eight departments, including natural resources and water conservancy, forming a network of ecological environment monitoring in the province, of which more than 10,000 were water environment monitoring sites.
Taking the Qiongjiang River Basin as an example, in 2019, our province will monitor every ten days, and basically achieve full coverage of the monitoring points of the first-class tributaries and the second-class tributaries that affect the water quality of Qiongjiang River. "Through these measures, we have identified the crux of pollution. Accurate pollution control has also been strongly supported. " The relevant person in charge of the Department of Ecology and Environment said.
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The scenery is more beautiful
Demonstration of ecological civilization and taking a new path
According to the communique, last year, jinniu district, Dayi County, Baoxing County of Ya ‘an City and Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County of Mianyang City were named as the third batch of national demonstration counties for ecological civilization construction by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. Daocheng County of Ganzi Prefecture was named as the third batch of national "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" practice and innovation bases.
So far, 12 counties and districts in our province have built national demonstration counties and districts of ecological civilization construction and national "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" practice and innovation bases, including 9 national demonstration counties and districts of ecological civilization construction and 3 national "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" practice and innovation bases, ranking sixth in the country and first in the western region.
Zhong Wang, director of the Natural Ecological Protection Department of the Department of Ecology and Environment, said that our province has initially formed a multi-level construction system combining point with area, and created a number of vivid cases of ecological civilization construction and the practice of "two mountains".
For example, Hongya County strives to build a health and wellness industry demonstration zone, an eco-industrial demonstration zone, and a green organic agricultural product demonstration zone, and promotes the transformation of forest areas into scenic spots, farmhouses into hostels, and villagers into investors; Nanjiang county has established the strategic orientation of "establishing an ecological county, strengthening a county by cultural tourism, rising green and achieving a well-off society at the same time", and through the continuous accumulation and realization of ecological assets, it has achieved poverty alleviation and prosperity; Jiuzhaigou county has continuously developed and expanded the eco-tourism industry, and has embarked on an eco-economic development road of transforming ecological advantages into economic advantages.
It is driven by the above-mentioned "leading counties" that the ecological environment of counties in our province reached a new level last year-among 183 counties (cities, districts), there were 177 counties (cities, districts) with "excellent" and "good" ecological environment, accounting for 96.7% of the number of counties. Among them, there are 43 counties (cities, districts) with excellent ecological environment and 134 counties (cities, districts) with good ecological environment. (Reporter   Yin Peng)