Beijing, January 30 (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) What progress has been made in ecological and environmental protection in 2023? The "Opinions of the Communist Party of China on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of Beautiful China" was recently released, what are the specific arrangements for the next step?
On January 30, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a regular press conference for January to respond to public concerns.
The scene of the press conference. Photo by Yuan Xiuyue.
In 2023, the national rate of good days is 855%
At the press conference, Pei Xiaofei, the new director and spokesperson of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, introduced that in terms of atmospheric environmental quality, in 2023, fine particulate matter (PM2.) will be recorded in cities at and above the prefecture level across the country5) The average concentration was 30 microgram cubic meters, which was better than the annual target (32.).9 micrograms of cubic meters) about 30 micrograms of cubic meters, a decrease of 167%。In 2023, the national rate of good days is 855%, 86 after deducting the abnormal days of sand and dust8%, better than the annual target of 06 percentage points, an increase of 35 percentage points. The national rate of heavily polluted days is 16%, deducting 11%, which is in line with the annual target.
In terms of water environment quality, the proportion of surface water quality excellent (class -) sections in the country in 2023 will be 894%, up 1. year-on-year5 percentage points, the proportion of inferior sections is 07%, flat year-on-year. In terms of soil environmental quality, the safe use of polluted cultivated land and key construction land across the country will be effectively guaranteed in 2023.
Pei Xiaofei said that in 2024, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will make every effort to do a good job in eight key tasks: actively promote the construction of the Beautiful China Pilot Zone, persistently fight the tough battle of pollution prevention and control, actively promote green, low-carbon and high-quality development, increase the supervision of ecological protection and restoration, ensure nuclear and radiation safety, strengthen ecological and environmental supervision and law enforcement and risk prevention, vigorously promote scientific and technological innovation in the field of ecological environment, and accelerate the improvement of the modern environmental governance system.
We will study and formulate measures for evaluating the effectiveness of the construction of a beautiful China.
Pei Xiaofei said that the "Opinions of the Communist Party of China on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China" was recently released, making systematic arrangements for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China in the new era and new journey, and is a programmatic document to guide the comprehensive promotion of the construction of a beautiful China.
Sun Shouliang, Director General of the Comprehensive Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will work with relevant departments to accelerate the establishment of an implementation system and implementation mechanism for the construction of a beautiful China, accelerate work scheduling, and strengthen tracking and evaluation; Research and formulate the evaluation index system and assessment methods for the effectiveness of the construction of Beautiful China, and ensure the smooth transition and orderly connection between the "15th Five-Year Plan" and the effectiveness assessment of pollution prevention and control.
Sun Shouliang said that Article 17 of the "Opinions" proposes to build a Beautiful China Pilot Zone, which is an important focus of the work at this stage. In the next step, we will study and formulate guidance documents on strengthening the protection of major regional strategic ecological environments and promoting the construction of the Beautiful China Pilot Zone, and actively cultivate a number of exemplary models that support high-quality development with high-quality ecological environment.
Thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have issued synergistic work plans for pollution reduction and carbon reduction.
The synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction is an important task measure to actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Sun Shouliang said that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other seven departments jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Synergy in Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction". At present, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have issued synergistic work plans for pollution reduction and carbon reduction.
He said that the coordinated governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction has been carried out in an all-round way and has achieved remarkable results. It has been calculated that in the decade from 2013 to 2022, the emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides decreased by % respectively, while the carbon emission intensity decreased by 344%。
In terms of air pollution prevention and control in autumn and winter, Pei Xiaofei said that since the autumn and winter of 2023, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has coordinated more than 2,400 business backbones of the national ecological environment system, mobilized more than 9,700 local law enforcement personnel, carried out 8** gas pollution on-site and remote supervision and assistance, and found problem enterprises 1More than 60,000 to promote the solution of gas-related environmental problems 3More than 20,000.
It was found that some enterprises had 4,254 problems such as fraud, excessive emissions, illegal discharge, and inadequate implementation of emission reduction measures for heavily polluted weather, including 537 violations of laws and regulations with serious nature and bad impact, such as interference with automatic monitoring, falsification of test reports, and falsification of ledger records, 17 were transferred to justice, 25 were administratively detained, and 3 were criminally detained. According to preliminary estimates, in 2023, supervision and assistance will promote a total of about 39 pollutant emission reductions30,000 tons. (ENDS).