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China News Service, Beijing, August 15 (Reporter Chen Hang) As the only intermediate people's court in Beijing with a registered environmental resources court, the Beijing Fourth Intermediate People's Court has centralized jurisdiction over major environmental and resource protection civil cases in Beijing, and cross-administrative division jurisdiction over administrative appeals involving environmental protection in Tianjin. The court will build on its existing cross-district advantages, deepen the coordinated linkage of environmental and resource trials in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei courts, explore new judicial protection measures such as cross-domain judicial cooperation, cross-domain major case handling, and cross-domain ecological environment restoration, and promote the construction of a large pattern of "environmental protection integration" in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

This was learned by reporters from the press briefing on the judicial review report on environmental and resource cases by the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court on the 15th.

Wang Jing, deputy director of the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court, said that since 2015, the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court has accepted a total of 117 environmental and resource cases, including 59 environmental and resource civil cases and 58 Tianjin environmental administrative appeal cases. Among the environmental and resource civil cases accepted, public interest litigation accounts for a relatively high proportion, and the cases cover 10 types, including air pollution, solid waste pollution, residential environment pollution, soil pollution, water resource pollution, campus environment pollution, green space and wetland ecological protection, network platform environmental protection, enterprise pollution source control, and wildlife protection, which are novel, technological, and contemporary.

In addition, the 58 Tianjin environmental administrative appeal cases accepted by the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court covered multiple fields such as environmental administrative management, administrative penalties, failure to perform statutory duties, and administrative compensation, involving production and living pollution such as air, water, and noise pollution, as well as new types of pollution such as radioactive substances and dust pollution. The overall number of cases showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing, and the substantive resolution of environmental administrative disputes achieved remarkable results.

It is reported that the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court has promoted the implementation of the "three-in-one" centralized trial mechanism for civil, administrative and criminal environmental and resource cases, and strengthened the construction of specialized environmental and resource trials through a series of professional, standardized and institutionalized measures such as exploring judicial cooperation to promote the substantive restoration of the ecological environment, opening up new paths for the substantive resolution of environmental administrative disputes, building a coordinated and linked mechanism for environmental and resource trials among the courts in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and innovating the legal publicity mechanism for ecological and environmental protection.

In the first half of this year, the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court and the Fourth Branch of the Municipal Procuratorate jointly signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening Judicial Cooperation in Public Interest Litigation in Environmental Resources Procuratorates", and signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on Implementing Judicial Protection of the Ecological Environment in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei" with the First Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin and the Intermediate People's Court of Xiong'an New Area, Hebei. The Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court also established ecological environment law popularization stations in Niukouyu Wetland Park, Nanyuan Forest Wetland Park and other places to promote the formation of a social atmosphere for the transformation of production and lifestyle towards green and low-carbon.

Guo Yueqing, president of the Environmental Resources Tribunal of the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court, said that in the next step, the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court will increase the trial of cases that have aroused strong public reaction, such as air, water, soil, solid waste, and noise pollution. At the same time, it will do a good job in judicial suggestion work and implement the requirements of "grasping the front end and preventing the disease before it occurs". On the basis of promoting the substantial resolution of contradictions and disputes, it will combine case trial research and sort out loopholes and problems in the field of ecological environment protection, send judicial suggestions to relevant units in a timely manner, and promote comprehensive environmental protection. (End)