CCTV News:A good ecological environment is the most inclusive welfare of people’s livelihood. In order to meet the people’s pursuit of a beautiful ecological environment, all relevant state departments and governments at all levels are making unremitting efforts.
According to the latest monitoring by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, from January to 1&mdash in 2023; In November, the national water ecological environment quality was stable and good, and the excellent proportion of surface water was 88.7%, up 1.1 percentage points year-on-year; The proportion of water quality inferior to Grade V was 0.7%, which was flat year-on-year.
In terms of air quality, the average concentration of PM2.5 in 339 cities at prefecture level and above was 29 μ g/m3, up by 3.6% over the same period in 2022. This means that the national average concentration of PM2.5 has increased by 1 μ g/m3 compared with the same period in 2022.
Liu Bingjiang, chief engineer of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that this achievement was hard-won. Because according to the forecast at the beginning of the year, the national PM2.5 concentration will increase by at least 7 μ g/m3 in 2023. Two major factors lead to severe challenges in the battle against pollution in 2023. After the transition of epidemic prevention and control in 2023, the economy resumed development, which correspondingly brought about an increase in pollutant emissions. In addition, in 2023, China suffered 17 sandstorms, the most in the past 10 years, 50% higher than the average.
The achievement of steady progress is that all localities and departments face difficulties, make overall plans, make precise efforts, increase pollution reduction efforts, and effectively slow down the momentum of pollution rebound.
In 2023, the ultra-low emission transformation of the national steel industry will add more than 200 million tons, more than the sum of the previous four years. As the "main battlefield" of air pollution control, the green transformation of the steel industry has greatly reduced the annual air pollutant emissions.
In 2023, the treatment of volatile organic pollutants involving tens of thousands of enterprises has been completed. This means that the weak links in the field of air pollution control in China are gradually being broken.
In 2023, the number of clean heating renovation in the northern region will increase by another 2 million, achieving warmth inside the house and blue sky outside.
In 2023, if the blue sky defense battle is a microgram-by-microgram battle, the clear water defense battle is the guardian of fish and grass in the river. Since 2023, many heavy documents such as "Water Ecological Environment Protection Plan for Key Watershed" have been issued one after another. A series of special actions such as the investigation of sewage outlets entering the river into the sea, the remediation of black and odorous water bodies in rural areas, and the environmental protection of drinking water sources continued to be launched.
In 2023, both the Yangtze River and the Yellow River will maintain Grade II water quality. The Yangtze River is expected to reach Grade II water quality for four consecutive years, and the Yellow River is expected to reach Grade II water quality for two consecutive years.
Pingxiang, Jiangxi: The grapefruit in my hometown is ripe.
There is a river at the junction of Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, which is a secondary tributary of the Yangtze River. It is called Pingshui River in Jiangxi and Laishui in Hunan. River basin management needs the joint management of upstream and downstream. In a short period of four years, Pingshui River has entered the top 30 list of water environmental quality changes announced by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment from Grade IV or even worse than Grade V in the national examination section. In this process, the villager Lao He, who lives by the river, is not only the witness and witness of this kind of environmental governance, but also the defender and beneficiary of the ecological environment.
In Dayi Village, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, standing on a small bridge on the Pingshui River, there are two small houses in the upper and lower reaches. This is an automatic water quality monitoring station set up by Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province and Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province near the Jinyushi section of the Pingshui River. At one time, a group of data from here touched many people’s hearts. Before 2018, many water quality indicators of Jinyushi section exceeded Class III water quality standards for a long time, and some months were Class IV or even worse than Class V..
After investigation, the relevant departments found that a large number of steel and chemical enterprises gathered in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, upstream of Lishui, while industries such as ceramics and building materials were laid out along the river in Zhuzhou, Hunan, downstream. The worrying monitoring data forced the two sides to break the industrial structure. It is precisely for this reason that He Haiping’s furniture processing factory, which has been in operation for 10 years, is facing a difficult choice.
The processing factory opened by Lao He mainly paints furniture. Although this small factory can make a gross profit of 100,000 yuan per year, it pollutes the surrounding air and water sources. In 2019, Pingxiang invested in the construction of sewage treatment facilities, shutting down and banning 107 scattered, chaotic and polluting enterprises, and Lao He’s small processing plant was also shut down after repeated persuasion in the village. Do something more? At the suggestion of the village, Lao Hao tried to plant excellent varieties of rock sugar pomelo on the barren hills.
Just when the first grapefruit seedling was planted in CSI, the highlight of the joint governance of the basins in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces also kicked off. In 2019, the two provinces signed a series of horizontal ecological protection agreements. Pingxiang in the upper reaches and Zhuzhou in the lower reaches jointly promoted the protection and governance of backwater in terms of information sharing and joint law enforcement. The two sides agreed that in three years, if the water quality of Jiangxi flowing into Hunan reaches or exceeds the national assessment target Class III, Hunan will compensate Jiangxi ecologically. On the contrary, Jiangxi compensates Hunan.
With the implementation of a series of measures, the ecology of Laishui has continued to improve, and the water quality has completely reached the standard. Pingxiang has also received 140 million yuan of river basin compensation from the central and provincial governments and 30 million yuan of ecological gambling compensation from Hunan. In November 2023, the two provinces also reviewed and approved the Pingshui River — The Regulation on Collaborative Protection of the Lishui River Basin has further promoted the co-management and co-governance of the upper and lower reaches through legislation.
At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, Lao He had a happy event in his family, watering the sweet river. The rock sugar pomelo he had planted hard for three years successfully bore fruit for the first time, and the quality of the fruit was beyond his expectation.
Qitaihe River in Heilongjiang Province: Coal City Becomes Beautiful City
There is a small border town called Qitaihe in Heilongjiang Province, which is an industrial city born of coal and prospered by coal. In the process of the city’s high-quality transformation, the "heat" of Qitaihe River in 2023 was a bit high.
In winter, the Qitaihe River is colder than 20 degrees below zero. Every day, hundreds of residents and tourists come to the Wanbao Lotus Pond Ice rink to skate, attracting them not only the free ice rink, but also the blue sky and white clouds that can be called the "best background board".
The "heat" of Qitaihe in 2023 extends from outdoor to indoor. After the renovation of old pipes in summer, the residents’ homes are as warm as spring, and the temperature remains above 20℃. Different from the past, the heating season in 2023 can no longer smell coal smoke.
Xu Quan, stationmaster of Lantian Gas Power Station in qitaihe city, Heilongjiang:In the past, when Qitaihe reached the heating season, the sky was gray and the air was choking. In the words of the people, all the domestic birds flying in the sky are black.
Xu Quan’s experience is the epitome of the transformation of Qitaihe River. Having dealt with coal for more than 20 years, what Lao Xu didn’t expect was that gas, the number one "natural enemy" endangering coal mining, has now turned into a "treasure" for power generation and heating. In the past two years, after becoming the stationmaster of the gas power station, Xu Quan, a coal miner, personally devoted himself to the front line of guarding the blue sky.
Let the life of ordinary people have temperature and brightness. Qitaihe will fully promote clean energy heating in 2023 and promote the use of biomass stoves for heating in rural areas. Qitaihe closely combined environmental governance with improving people’s livelihood, cured chronic diseases, inserted green at the seams, and the "happiness list" that the masses cared about became a beautiful life within reach today.
The beauty of Qitaihe River in winter adds a heroic temperament. There have been 12 world champions of ice and snow sports here, and the reputation of "champion city" has promoted the rapid development of ice and snow economy. In 2023, Qitaihe launched 21 tourist routes and held events such as the legendary ice and snow carnival. The number of tourist receptions reached 670,000, and the tourism income reached 164 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 50%.
Fight the battle of pollution prevention and control, and re-compose a new chapter of beautiful China
It is the unshirkable responsibility of government departments to let people breathe fresh air, drink clean water and live in a beautiful environment, and it is also the direction of unremitting efforts. The year 2024 is a crucial year to realize the objectives and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and it is also an important period for the construction of beautiful China. In 2024, what aspects will the construction of beautiful China continue to exert?
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, at present, the structural, root and trend pressures of China’s ecological environment protection have not been fundamentally alleviated, so it is one of the important tasks for the construction of beautiful China in 2024 to fight the tough battle of pollution prevention. In terms of defending the blue sky, China will promote strict control of increments, reduce emissions, accelerate the development of green and low-carbon industries, and strengthen financial, taxation, price and other policy support.
In the battle for clear water, in 2024, China will consolidate and improve the quality of water environment, highlighting the protection and restoration of water ecology. Do a good job in the renovation of sewage outlets into the river, and strive to complete the renovation of the whole Yangtze River basin by the end of 2025, and complete the renovation of sewage outlets in the main stream and important tributaries of the Yellow River and other basins. Pilot water ecological assessment will be carried out in 17 provinces in the Yangtze River basin, and more than 2,700 water bodies will be basically built into beautiful rivers and lakes with "clear water and green banks and shallow fish" by 2035. Consolidate and improve the effectiveness of black and odorous water treatment in prefecture-level and above cities, and increase the intensity of black and odorous water treatment in county-level cities.
In 2024, China’s ecological environment will be bluer, greener and clearer, and Wan Li’s rivers and mountains will be more colorful!
