Since 2015, China has fully implemented strict environmental protection, a historic measure aimed at closing down those inefficient, shoddy and huge environmental damage to small and medium-sized enterprises, and imposing strict environmental controls on large enterprises, and imposing heavy fines or even suspension of production on those enterprises that discharge pollutants without authorization, refuse to upgrade and transform, and fail to meet environmental protection standards.
Back in 2014, when many factories in surrounding areas such as Hebei Province were forced to shut down to reduce air pollution in order to ensure that the skies were free of smog in Beijing, on the occasion of the successful hosting of the international summit in Beijing"APEC blue"It has been talked about, and the country's strong environmental protection measures have been vigorously launched.
This policy was originally beneficial to the country and the people, but in the process of implementation, it showed signs of deterioration. In some areas of Hebei, in order to prevent air pollution, some extreme practices seem absurd, such as blocking people's stoves, chopping firewood and straw are all banned from burning, and directly implementing clean energy heating methods such as coal-to-gas and coal-to-electricity. However, with a shortage of natural gas**, many residents struggle to heat their homes in winter.
Faced with the high cost of electric heating, many elderly people are unable to bear it and have to choose traditional coal heating. However, the relevant policy stipulates that people can only buy environmentally friendly coal that has been desulphisated at designated places, and all other coal is prohibited. Violators will not only have their coal confiscated, but they will also be fined. This practice has led to the monopoly and abuse of power of related households in environmentally friendly coal.
On the land of Hebei, there are mines all over the country, not only the air is full of dust, but the damage to the natural landscape is irreversible, and some mountains are even razed to the ground. In these mining areas, if there are enough connections, environmental enforcement will go unnoticed, and the local people will know the "unspoken rules" of these mines, and even if problems arise, they will often be able to avoid them smoothly.
Rural dwellers, already living in hardship, are faced with impersonal and overly strict enforcement of the law. Although the policy implementers are full of arguments about the well-being of the people, in fact they have caused a lot of trouble. It is worth pondering how to inject more humanistic care into the enforcement of standardized laws and effectively guide the people, so as to avoid policies that should benefit the people in the long run from being distorted due to improper implementation, and bringing unnecessary suffering to the lives of the people.