Ministry of Ecology and Environment: Does the air pollution campaign in autumn and winter not involve large-scale shutdown?
Coming into October, the battle against air pollution in autumn and winter has attracted much attention. Will there be a large area of work stoppage in autumn and winter this year?
Beijing, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Ecology and Environment is seeking opinions from relevant departments, local authorities and experts on an action plan to tackle air pollution in the Autumn and winter of 2019 in The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas, ministry spokesman Liu Youbin said at a regular press conference in September.
As for the air pollution control plan in The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas in autumn and winter, there is widespread concern about the measures to limit the production of enterprises. What will happen to the related measures this year? To this, Liu Youbin introduced, firmly opposed to the "one size fits all", the plan does not involve mandatory peak production, large-scale shutdown, production halt and other requirements, firmly opposed to the "all shut down", "stop first and then" and other perfunctory response practices, strictly in accordance with the law.
The scheme does not involve mandatory off-peak production
Liu youbin said that in recent years, in order to effectively deal with the heavy pollution weather during autumn and winter, effectively improve the atmospheric environment quality in autumn and winter, so that the people can enjoy more blue skies and breathe more clean air, the Ministry has jointly carried out air pollution prevention and control actions in autumn and winter. In the past few years of practice, we have accumulated effective experience and measures to deal with air pollution in autumn and winter, and achieved remarkable results.
In the autumn and winter of this year, we will continue to work with relevant departments and local governments to prevent and control air pollution in accordance with the requirements of the three-year action plan on winning the battle for blue Skies. Crucial action of the overall idea is to inherit the past some effective experiences and practices, focusing on the main contradiction and affecting the regional environmental air quality in the fall and winter of the key problems, based on the industrial structure, energy structure optimization, transportation structure and land structure adjustment, effectively cope with heavy pollution weather, stressed that administer thoroughly, integrated ShiCe, at the same time, strengthen the organization guarantee, strict supervision of law enforcement, ensure the implementation of the responsibility, effectively improve the air quality in the fall and winter.
The goal of improving urban environmental air quality in autumn and winter of 2019-2020 is scientifically set in accordance with the general requirements of consolidating achievements and seek improvement in stability, and full consideration is given to continuity, fairness and accessibility. First, consider the PM2.5 concentration value in the last autumn and winter, and the target with a high concentration value is correspondingly high. The second is to consider the past two autumn and winter cumulative decline, a small decline in the corresponding high target. Third, exempt cities that met the PM2.5 annual average concentration target last year and set no air quality improvement targets. Cities with low PM2.5 concentrations in autumn and winter are required to consolidate their achievements.
Compared with last year, the major changes in the measures for tackling the problem are as follows:
First, more emphasis will be placed on the rule of law. We are firmly opposed to the one-size-fits-all approach. In the plan, there is no requirement for mandatory off-peak production or large-scale shutdown or production suspension. We are firmly opposed to perfunctionally responding to such measures as "no one-size-fits-all shutdown" or "stop first and stop later", and we will strictly comply with laws and regulations. It is not in line with reality that some "we media" have recently equated the autumn and winter campaign with the production and production shutdown.
Second, we will make scientific measures more prominent. Implement differentiated emergency management to effectively deal with heavy pollution weather. For enhancing heavy pollution around according to the weather should strengthen the guidance of emergency measures to reduce emissions, and further perfect the heavy pollution weather emergency plan, strengthen emergency mitigation measures, implement enterprise classification grading control, to achieve A level of heavy pollution weather didn't take mitigation measures during emergency, class B enterprise less appropriate mitigation measures.
Third, we will pay more attention to adapting measures to local conditions. We will adopt policies based on different categories to promote in-depth governance of industrial enterprises, strengthen differentiated guidance for local governments and enterprises, and scientifically determine governance programs based on the characteristics and development orientation of local industries.
We will resolutely pursue formalist issues such as "one size fits all"
Liu Youbin stressed that "one size fits all" is a typical manifestation of formalism and bureaucracy, which not only damages the image, credibility and legitimate rights and interests of the party and government, but also harms the normal development of ecological and environmental protection work, which violates the original intention and mission of ecological and environmental protection work. The people hate this, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has been a clear-cut attitude, firmly opposed.
In the course of environmental law enforcement, we have always stressed the need to take facts as the basis and law as the criterion, and to proceed from reality and act in accordance with the law. In response to the "one-size-fits-all" problem of environmental protection in some regions, we have issued a number of documents to prevent and strictly prohibit it. Among the central ecological and environmental inspectors, we have carried out "double checks" on both inaction and misconduct, and reported typical cases of "one-size-fits-all" in some localities.
An important reason for "one-size-fits-all" is that it is usually not done. Since September 1, the ecological environment has launched a three-month rectification action, focus on solving for the masses feel strongly about ecological destruction and environmental pollution problems ignored, elaborate the rectification at ordinary times is not as a behavior, and resolutely correct some of the local ecological environment protection work indiscriminate that exist in the "one size fits all" behavior. My ministry on September 4 bulletin linyi "one-size-fits all" problem, is found in the special action of the opposite typical. My ministry has asked the local immediate rectification, draw lessons, draw inferences, according to discipline and law serious accountability.
Going forward, we will continue to focus on formalism and bureaucratism, such as "one-size-fits-all". When we find them, we will investigate and punish them all. We will hold those responsible to account and never tolerate them. At the same time, we will maintain composure, strictly enforce the law, act in accordance with the law, and fulfill our duties. We will urge localities and departments that normally do not perform their duties to earnestly strengthen day-to-day supervision, solve the problem of "one size is fit for all" at the source, and earnestly safeguard the environmental rights and interests of the people and the legitimate rights and interests of law-abiding enterprises.
