Strengthen environmental protection responsibilities and build a solid foundation for the protection of the source of the Qingjiang River
2024-08-17
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Jingchu.com (Hubei Daily Online) (Reporters Hu Yao and Lv Huyuan) On the morning of August 15, the Social Security Comprehensive Management Center, Wangying Court, and Wangying Judicial Office of Wangying Town, Lichuan City, organized villagers from Qingjiang Village to go to the source of Qingjiang River to carry out the "Strengthen Environmental Protection Responsibility and Strengthen the Protection of the Source of Qingjiang River" activity. The cadres and masses who participated in the event were enthusiastic, holding environmental protection bags, and carefully cleaned up white garbage and weeds along the two banks of the source of Qingjiang River. After the garbage cleaning was completed, more than 80 propaganda brochures such as the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Yangtze River" and the "Regulations on the Protection of the Water Ecological Environment in the Qingjiang River Basin of Hubei Province" were preached and distributed to the villagers living near the source of Qingjiang River.
The activity of "Green mountains and clear waters make our home beautiful, and 'maple' enters the Qingjiang River to protect the clean water" was launched.
Qingjiang River, formerly known as "Yishui" and also known as "Salt Water", originates from Longdonggou in Houba, Wangying, where water from Dayu Spring converges, and Lanjingba, Guanyin River, Jichangba, Jiudu River and other rivers merge in sequence. It is the second tributary of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in Hubei after Hanshui River, and its ecological and environmental value is particularly outstanding.
In recent years, Lichuan City has adhered to the concept of "Green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains", based on the "Yangtze River Protection Law", taken the initiative to take responsibility, implement the strategic requirements of ecological priority, green development, and joint protection and no large-scale development, and use the power of the rule of law to protect the clear water of the Qingjiang River and the green mountains on both sides.
"We have made the Yangtze River Protection Law an important part of the 8th Five-Year Plan for legal publicity. We have taken advantage of important nodes such as the theme publicity month and World Environment Day on June 5 to carry out targeted publicity activities on Yangtze River protection, creating a strong atmosphere of learning, knowing, popularizing and applying the law in the whole society." said Huang Dan, director of the Lichuan Municipal Justice Bureau.
In addition to strengthening publicity, Lichuan City has further improved its working mechanism, strengthened planning guidance, closely linked economic development with the systematic protection, overall protection and coordinated protection of the ecological environment, and promoted the organic integration of the protection of the Yangtze River and high-quality economic and social development.
Up to now, the city has set up 460 river chiefs at the city, township and village levels and equipped 501 cleaners; completed the construction of ecological flow discharge facilities at 28 hydropower stations in the city, and built supporting ecological flow monitoring equipment; completed the inspection of the 29 existing small hydropower stations in the city, and included 26 in the rectification category and 3 in the withdrawal category; completed the cleanup and rectification of 761 fixed pollution sources in the city, and verified the pollutant emission standards and total emissions of each enterprise.
At the same time, Lichuan City has also completed the second phase of the urban sewage treatment plant and its supporting pipeline network. The urban sewage treatment capacity has been increased from 20,000 tons/day to 70,000 tons/day, and the effluent water quality has been improved from Class B to Class A, greatly improving the water quality of the urban section of Qingjiang River. The construction of sewage treatment plants in towns and villages in the Qingjiang River Basin has been completed. A total of three sewage treatment plants have been built in towns and villages along the Qingjiang River, with a daily treatment capacity of 3,800 tons. The effluent quality of all sewage plants meets the Class A standard of the "Pollutant Emission Standards for Urban Sewage Treatment Plants", and full coverage of sewage treatment in towns and villages along the Qingjiang River Basin has been achieved.
By strengthening rural pollution prevention and control, vigorously carrying out comprehensive rural environmental improvement and promoting agricultural non-point source pollution prevention and control, the city's rural garbage management work has basically achieved the "five-have" standard (that is, complete facilities and equipment, mature management technology, a stable cleaning team, a sound supervision system, and long-term financial guarantee), and has built an urban-rural integrated system for urban and rural domestic garbage from household classification, group cleaning, village collection, town transfer, and city (township) treatment; the city's large-scale farms' manure treatment facility equipment matching rate reached 100%, the comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure reached 95.86%, the city's large-scale farms' manure treatment facility equipment matching rate was 100%, the city's use of pesticides and fertilizers has decreased year by year, and the use of pesticides has decreased year by year, with a decrease of 0.37%.
"Since January 1, 2021, a 10-year fishing ban has been implemented in the Qingjiang River Basin. Our fishery law enforcement squadron has vigorously promoted common knowledge about the fishing ban, strengthened daily inspections, and focused on cracking down on illegal fishing activities in the Qingjiang River Basin." The staff of the fishery law enforcement squadron told us. According to statistics, over the past three years, a total of 832 law enforcement vehicles, 285 law enforcement boats, and 3,745 law enforcement personnel have been dispatched, 12,423 kilometers of river patrols have been conducted on land, and 3,540 kilometers of river patrols have been conducted on water. More than 1,348 people have been persuaded to stop illegal fishing, 1,403 illegal nets have been cleared, 7 sets of electric fishing devices have been confiscated, and 509 illegal fishing gears have been cleared: 28 administrative cases involving fisheries have been handled, 32 people have been punished, and a fine of 34,860 yuan has been imposed, and 3 suspected criminal cases involving 6 people have been transferred; 547 ships have been cleared, 435 ships have been dismantled, and 112 ships have been marked and managed, which has effectively ensured the stable growth of fishery resources in the Qingjiang River Basin and the continuous improvement of the ecological environment in the waters.
In addition, Lichuan City has established a cross-regional judicial cooperation mechanism and a cross-departmental multi-governance mechanism for comprehensive basin management, cracking down on crimes that damage the ecological environment and protecting the mother river Yangtze with the power of the rule of law. In 2022, the Lichuan Municipal People's Court and the Enshi Prefecture Intermediate People's Court jointly established the "Qingjiangyuan Ecological Environment Judicial Protection Practice Base" at the Qingjiangyuan landmark, and established the "Qingjiangyuan Ecological Environment Protection Court" in the Wangying People's Court. The court was successively rated as the "Advanced People's Court" and "Model People's Court" in the province by the Provincial High Court, and was rated as the "Top Ten People's Courts" in the prefecture by the Prefecture Intermediate Court. In the past five years, the Lichuan Municipal Court has correctly tried environmental and resource criminal cases, sentenced a total of 105 cases, and sentenced 126 criminals.
Since March 2021, the Lichuan People's Procuratorate has filed 142 public interest litigation cases in the field of ecological environment and resources. Through case handling, it has urged the reclamation of 126 acres of illegally changed and occupied cultivated land, repaired 3 acres of polluted soil, and recovered 94.68 acres of collective ecological public welfare forests at all levels; cleaned up 11.4 kilometers of polluted and illegally occupied river channels, and cleaned up 49.2 acres of polluted water areas; urged the closure and rectification of four farms that caused environmental pollution; urged the removal and treatment of 10.8 tons of illegally stacked various types of domestic garbage, urged the recycling and cleaning of 6.9 tons of production solid waste, and urged the recycling and cleaning of 2.3 tons of hazardous waste.
Citizens actively participate in environmental protection activities. Photo provided by the correspondent
"Several generations of us have lived near the source of the Qingjiang River, and we all grew up drinking water from the source of the Qingjiang River. We all know the importance of protecting the water source of the Qingjiang River. The protection of the water source is now 'based on laws and violations will be punished', which has also strengthened our determination to protect the source of the Qingjiang River." A villager living near the source of the Qingjiang River said with a smile on his face.
