The Central Environmental Protection Supervision Group spoke harshly again.This time, it was Zhai Qing, deputy head of the Fifth Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team and deputy minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, who suggested that the city leaders of Shantou City live by the smelly water ditch.
According to a report from the Legal Daily on June 20: The Central Environmental Protection Fifth Inspectorate came to Shantou during their visit to Guangdong to look back, and found that the environmental problems of Lianjiang, the mother river in the Chaoshan area, were serious. A staff member of the Fifth Central Environmental Protection Inspectorate expressed his disappointment and dissatisfaction with the pollution control of the Lianjiang River, the seriousness of the pollution of the Lianjiang River in Shantou City, and the importance of environmental protection at the city, county and township levels.The degree of disregard of the Lianjiang River; the negative attitude towards the Lianjiang treatment requirements put forward by the central government and the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government; the slowness of the Lianjiang pollution control is shocking. Seeing the current situation of Lianjiang, Zhai Qing made a suggestion. I think this is good. Can Shantou City build a few houses or rent a few houses by the stinky water where ordinary people live?The people of the river live together until the water is neither black nor smelly, please think about it. For Zhai Qing's suggestion, the relevant person in charge of the Shantou Municipal Party Committee and Government immediately agreed.
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The environmental problem of Lianjiang is an old problem. In May of this year, the Xinhua News Agency pointed out that the Lianjiang River is the most polluted in Guangdong.As the headline, report the pollution problem of Lianjiang River.Historically, the Lianjiang River used to be named for its clear waters that meander like a white line, but now it has become a black dragon, and has been classified as the most polluted river in the province by the Environmental Protection Department of Guangdong Province.Since 1998, the water quality of the Lianjiang River has been rated as inferior V; in the first quarter of this year, the ammonia nitrogen in the main stream of the Lianjiang River was about 9 mg/L, far exceeding the inferior V standard. From November 28 to December 28, 2016, the Central Fourth Environmental Protection Inspection Group conducted a one-month inspection of Guangdong., Lianjiang treatment plan fails every year, and the 5 sewage treatment plants and supporting pipe networks, 3 sludge disposal centers, 3 waste incineration power plants, and 2 waste landfills should be completed by the end of 2015.No one has been built, and about 620,000 tons of domestic sewage are directly discharged into the environment every day. A year and a half after the Fourth Central Environmental Protection Inspection Group pointed out the problem, the Fifth Central Environmental Protection Inspection Group came to Shantou to look back and found that none of the 13 rectification projects left to Shantou by the previous round of environmental inspections had been completed on time;Jiang's governance plan still fell through. In fact, looking back, before departure, the Fifth Central Environmental Protection Supervision Group once reminded Shantou, please tell the relevant comrades in Shantou to prepare a detailed list of the pollution control of the Lianjiang River, the more detailed the better. However, after arriving in Shantou, the Fifth Central Environmental Protection Supervision Group found that from the party and government leaders at the district level to the directors of the bureaus, they didn't know anything about the pollution control of the Lianjiang River.Whether it was stepped on beforehand or a temporary motion, the few rivers I saw were all black and smelly; garbage was discarded and landfilled at will; even electronic waste was piled up next to the rice fields. According to reports: Zhai Qing came to Lianbei Dakeng, a tributary of the Lianjiang River, and saw that the river was black and smelly, and dead fish floating on the river surface were clearly visible.Wastewater from laundry, vegetable washing, and flushing is directly discharged into the Lianbei Dakeng along the ditch.The villagers reported that the feces here are also directly discharged into the Lianbei Dakeng.Lianbei Dakeng is located in Chaoyang District, Shantou City. Zhai Qing asked Cai Yongming, secretary of the Chaoyang District Party Committee, is this still called a river?Cai Yongming was silent, speechless.
The water body in Lianbei Dakeng, Chaoyang District, Shantou City is seriously black and smelly (photo courtesy of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment)
It can be seen that the situation of pollution control in Lianjiang is grim.Well, this time the Central Environmental Protection Fifth Inspectorate once again pointed out its serious problems. The deputy team leader even suggested that the city leaders live by the stinking ditch. Will the treatment of the Lianjiang River improve? On June 20, the sixth plenary meeting of the 11th Shantou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China was held. Fang Lixu, secretary of the Shantou Municipal Party Committee, said when deploying the next step: a strong man breaks his wrist and fights with his back, and resolutely fights the battle of rectification of the Lianjiang River; to strengthen leadership,Strengthen environmental law enforcement and accelerate the construction of environmental protection infrastructure in the Lianjiang River Basin; promote the transformation and upgrading of industries in the Lianjiang River Basin, gradually eliminate high-pollution and high-energyJiang, Rongjiang, Lianjiang Three Rivers Connection Project. On June 14, Shantou City Supervisory Committee, Environmental Protection Bureau and other 5 units jointly issued a circular on severely cracking down on environmental pollution crimes in accordance with the law. The circular listed illegal sewage discharges to Lianjiang and other rivers, especially malicious sewage discharges, as key rectification areas. It is also worth noting that on June 19, the Guangdong Provincial Ecological Environmental Protection Conference and Pollution Prevention and Control Work Advancement Conference was held. Provincial Party Secretary Li Xi attended the meeting and delivered a speech, and Governor Ma Xingrui presided over the meeting. Li Xi said at the meeting: We must resolutely win the battle against pollution and concentrate our efforts to solve outstanding ecological and environmental problems. First, we must focus on fighting the battle against clear water.Effectively strengthen the protection of water sources, make every effort to eliminate black and odorous water bodies in cities, and accelerate the elimination of inferior Class V water bodies.He emphasized the need for strict evaluation and accountability.Implement the most stringent quantitative and rigid assessment and accountability, highlighting the guiding role of environmental performance. Ma Xingrui emphasized at the meeting: we should take the opportunity of the central environmental protection inspection to look back, clarify goals, highlight key points, clarify the path, adhere to science, seek truth from facts, make full use of advanced technology and equipment, and do our best to win the battle against clear water and the battle to defend the blue sky, pure land defense and solid waste pollution prevention and control.
