There is still more than a month to go, and the people of the whole country will celebrate the Lunar New Year, but two elderly people in their 70s in Beima Village, Xingguo Town, Zanhuang County, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, may have a "cold and lonely year" this year.
Because on December 5, when the two elderly people were about to make lunch, 7-8 town cadres and staff broke into the old man's home without permission, and they were very purposeful, each holding a bag, piling the old man in a corner of the loose coal, bag by bag.
This ton of coal was purchased by two old men just a few days ago to keep warm.
The old man begged the town cadres not to confiscate it, but the town cadres responded:
"Inferior bulk coal, not environmentally friendly, risky, to heat, to the town designated place to buy "environmentally friendly briquette".
According to the ** found on the Internet, loose coal ** is about 600 yuan a ton, and **designated "environmentally friendly briquette" ** is as high as 1500 yuan a ton, ** more than doubled.
No wonder the two old people bought loose coal for heating, because the nearly 1,000 yuan saved was enough for them to live a saving year, but now it seems that the bamboo basket is empty.
Since 2017, the entire province of Hebei Province has been advocating "clear water and blue sky", and farmers have been banned from burning loose coal in the whole region.
Farmers are required to boil water, cook and heat their homes, gradually switch from coal to electricity and gas, and prohibit the burning of straw and loose coal for cooking and heating.
For hundreds of years, the purchase of honeycomb coal by farmers from loose coal and yellow mud processing has become a thing of the past, and all of them have been banned.
The reason is that honeycomb coal has high sulfur content, large smoke and dust, and is easy to poison.
In various parts of Hebei, the "two scattered and one burning" work arrangements are being carried out, and town leaders and village cadres are required to dissect each house to see if there is any use of loose coal.
Carpet investigation, so that there are no dead ends, no blind spots, once found loose coal immediately confiscated, resolutely prohibit the burning of loose coal.
Each county and town also has a whistleblower**, and a reward of 1% of the fine and confiscation of the case will be given, with a maximum of 1,000 yuan.
The two elderly people in Beima Village are estimated to have been reported by someone and attracted a group of cadres.
After the cadres of Xingguo Town, Zanhuang County, confiscated the heating coal for the elderly, and posted it to Douyin, netizens condemned the cadres one-sidedly, worried that the old man would freeze to death in winter.
The so-called blue sky and white cloud plan cannot be at the cost of lowering the quality of life of farmers, especially the higher cost of coal to electricity and coal to gas, some netizens said that it took more than 8,000 yuan to burn gas in a winter, which is a heavy burden for Hebei villagers with low income.
I wonder if our experts are exaggerating the issue of environmental protection
After all, a few decades ago, every household burned straw for heating, and the smoke curled in the villages, and the blue sky at that time was definitely bluer than now, so I think it was a bit of a fuss to cover the environmentally friendly pot on the farmers, and I hope to set things right!
It is hoped that grassroots cadres will focus their main energies on increasing peasants' incomes, instead of subtracting and adding blockages to peasants.