drum beats rumbling, oars roaring, cheers stirred up on the Maozhou River . On World Environment Day this year, the Maozhou River Dragon Boat Invitational Competition was held in the Yanluo Wetland Section of Bao'an District, Shenzhen. Yanluo Wetland has changed from the black and smelly beach in the past to the butterflies that have turned into the green grass, red flowers and gurgling water today.
Water environment issues are a "shortcoming" in Guangdong's environmental governance and one of the key points of central environmental protection inspections and "look back".
The provincial party committee and the provincial government attach great importance to this. Since the beginning of this year, Li Xi, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial First General River Chief, and Ma Xingrui, the Provincial General River Chief, took the lead in going deep into the grassroots to supervise the pollution control of key rivers on-site, and took the lead in supervising the pollution control of Maozhou River and Lianjiang , which are the most polluted in the province. Ren Xuefeng, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, took the lead in supervising the Guangfo cross-border river, and urged the implementation of the task of the river basin river chief system lake chief system through river patrol supervision and other forms.

monitoring data shows that from January to August 2018, the ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus concentrations in the three sections of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Maozhou River all dropped significantly. Among them, the pollutant concentration in the upper Lou Village section decreased by more than 80% compared with the same period last year, and the water quality reached the Class IV standard for surface water, and the other two sections gradually approached the Class V standard. The water quality of the main stream of Lianjiang River in eastern Guangdong has gradually improved. Since the Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team launched a "look back", the water quality of each tributary has improved. In the first eight months of this year, among the 12 major rivers and surgings in the Guangzhou-Foundation cross-border area, the concentration of 7 major pollution indicators decreased compared with before the central environmental protection inspection "look back".
Relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Environmental Protection introduced that in the first eight months of this year, the water quality excellent rate (Class I~III) of 71 national examination sections in our province was 71.8% (51). "The improvement in water quality in heavily polluted basins such as Maozhou River, Lianjiang River, and Guangfo Cross-border River is significantly higher than the provincial average. This shows that under the high promotion of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, all localities and departments have worked hard to overcome pollution control and achieved initial results."
Maozhou River:
large army combat, and the pollution control of the entire basin is controlled by lotus leaves on the water surface, and fish and shrimps in the water swim in the shallow bottom. Many citizens stop and linger on the winding water-friendly plank road. On September 19, the reporter came to Yanluo Wetland Park again. The Maozhou River facing the park has basically bid farewell to the black and smelly, and the calm river surface reflects the golden sunset. "In the past, the water in Maozhou River was like ink. Now we have built two sewage treatment plants nearby. After the sewage in the basin has been treated, part of it is discharged here and becomes a wetland landscape." Wu Xinfeng, a researcher at the Environmental Protection and Water Affairs Bureau of Bao'an District, Shenzhen, told reporters that after the rectification, this place has changed from a dirty and messy dead corner to a good place for people to relax after get off work.
Since the end of 2015, Shenzhen has implemented the "local + large state-owned enterprise" large-scale combat and whole-basin governance model for Maozhou River management, giving full play to the advantages of "mechanized operations". During the peak period, more than 400 construction surfaces were launched at the same time, with more than 13,000 front-line construction personnel, and the maximum daily laying volume of sewage pipeline network was 4.18 kilometers and the maximum weekly completion volume was 24.1 kilometers.

Currently, Maozhou River management has become the "top leader" project. Provincial Party Secretary Li Xi took the lead in supervising the pollution control of Maozhou River, and Shenzhen Municipal Party Secretary Wang Weizhong served as the chief of Maozhou River. Six municipal river chiefs took the lead in patrolling the river 20 people, district, street and community-level river chiefs patrolling the river 13,862 people patrolling the river 1,487 problems were found in river chiefs at all levels, and 1,020 rectifications have been implemented.
Shenzhen also implements the river chief system to specific projects. Each river chief is a "construction team leader" to track and supervise the progress of the project. From 2016 to 2017, Shenzhen invested 13.55 billion yuan to complete 59 water control projects. In 2018, Shenzhen arranged a total of 78 water management and quality improvement projects in the Maozhou River Basin, with an annual investment of 7.73 billion yuan. Since the central environmental protection inspection, Shenzhen Maozhou River Basin has completed an investment of 18.36 billion yuan.

"Maozhou River governance involves two cities and three districts (towns). The above model solves the long-standing shortcomings of out-of-synchronization, segmented governance, and fragmented construction of main and tributary rivers." A relevant person in charge of the provincial environmental protection department introduced. At present, the sewage intercepting pipeline network of 127.92 kilometers (including the main pipeline network) flowing through the lower reaches of the Maozhou River. Among them, since 2018, 39.68 kilometers of new sewage interception branch pipeline network have been built (81.55% of the annual task has been completed).
sewage treatment facilities and pipeline network construction are drastic, while source sewage interception work is becoming increasingly refined.
"Green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains" "Good ecological environment is the most universal welfare for people's livelihood"... Similar banners appear from time to time on some towering residential communities on both sides of the Maozhou River.

"It turns out that the washing machine water of every household is mixed with rainwater and discharged into the rainwater pipeline; now we set up a special pipeline on the roof of each building to collect rainwater. The rainwater pipe of each household is changed to a sewage pipe, and the washing machine water is discharged into the sewage pipe." The relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Human Residence and Environment Committee introduced the rainwater and sewage diversion and renovation action implemented in residential communities code-named "Zhengben Qingyuan" implemented by Shenzhen. According to statistics, there are 11,740 communities in the city that need to be renovated, more than half of which have been completed, and all renovations will be completed before the end of next year.
Lianjiang:
Party and government leaders are on-site to supervise the rectification progress
0 Lianjiang governance in eastern Guangdong is also in no time. On June 16 this year, Governor Ma Xingrui went to the Lianjiang River Basin for on-site supervision, demanding to speed up the filling of shortcomings in infrastructure construction and make great efforts to promote the improvement of the Lianjiang River Basin to achieve results. On August 16, 11 environmental protection projects in Shantou, including , Chaoyang District, and Chaonan District, Lianjiang Remediation, launched a new round of climax in the construction of Lianjiang environmental protection infrastructure. Major projects that have been started before this have entered the sprint stage one after another.
htmlOn September 20, the reporter saw at the self-built factory site of the Textile Printing, Dyeing and Environmental Protection Comprehensive Treatment Center (hereinafter referred to as the Treatment Center) in Chaonan District, Shantou City. The machines roared on the scene, and at least 5 pile drivers were operating at the same time. The first batch of 6 professional printing and dyeing enterprises were under construction. "This month, a second batch of 22 plots were launched for 22 enterprises. It is expected that the third batch of enterprise land will be listed and sold by the end of November, and all enterprises entering the park will be able to start construction by the end of the year." Chen Songhu, director of the processing center office, said.
In Puning, Jieyang, the city's textile printing and dyeing and environmental protection comprehensive treatment center's sewage treatment plant is also speeding up, and it is expected to be completed by the end of the year, so that certified printing and dyeing enterprises can control pollution uniformly after entering.
The construction site of the domestic waste incineration power plant in Chaoyang District, Shantou City is also busy, with trucks coming in and out frequently, and the main factory building has been topped off. "The entire project has been completed by 80%, and the first phase of the project with a daily processing capacity of 1,500 tons by the end of the year can be put into operation." said Kong Yiran, general manager of Shantou Green Power Renewable Energy Co., Ltd., a power plant construction unit.

In response to previous problems such as land acquisition and demolition and approval procedures, Shantou fully plays the leading role of the river chief. It has implemented the leadership of the four municipal team leaders to lead teams to five stationed sites, including Beigang River, Guantianshui, Zhonggang River, Xiashan Daxi and Qiufengshui, and established stationed work plans, work logs and files. As of September 18, 24 city leaders have been resident at the site for 68 people, supervising the progress of rectification work on the front line, and working on the spot to solve the rectification work problems.
"Each of the 15 members of the municipal party and government team took the lead in taking charge of the rectification tasks of one first-level tributary, and each tributary formulated a comprehensive rectification work plan one by one. Districts, towns, and villages, river chiefs at all levels took the lead in carrying out the "Five Cleanups" action on the main and tributaries of the Lianjiang River Basin, and large areas of floating objects and water lotus in the basin have been basically eliminated." A relevant person in charge of the Shantou Lianjiang River Office introduced that seeing that the party and government cadres took the lead in doing their own work in the rectification of Lianjiang River, the concept of the masses has gradually changed.
Two months ago, Gurao Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City fired the first shot to demolish the "illegal building group". On September 20, the reporter visited the town's Ximei Village in on September 20 and saw that the 3.1-kilometer-long buildings on both sides of Gurao River have not yet completely disappeared, and the newly built waterproof walls no longer look "dirty and messy".

According to Zhang Chu Town, Party Branch Secretary and Village-level River Chief of Ximei Village, Gurao Town, starting from July 18, they used 5 days to demolish illegal buildings of more than 3,000 square meters on both sides of Gurao River. "The demolished were all small stalls. Before, various sewage was discharged directly to Gurao River. We smelled the sour smell from afar."
"As soon as the illegal buildings were demolished, I felt much more comfortable when I looked at the river. I hope the government would continue to manage Lianjiang River, make the water clearer and the environment better."Xiao Liangxiong, a 71-year-old villager in Ximei Village, said. Zhang Chu Town introduced that demolition of illegal buildings is only the first step, and there is still a lot of work to be done to cure the river. "Ximei Village is a 'battlefield', and we are all 'war'. ”
Target:
Guangdong will basically eliminate Class V water bodies in 2020
According to the three-year action plan of Guangdong Province to fight the battle against pollution, our province will focus on pollution control in the Maozhou River Basin, Lianjiang River Basin, Tamsui River Basin, Guangzhou-Foshan cross-border rivers, Shenzhen River and other river basins. By 2020, we will basically eliminate Class V water bodies and black and odorous water bodies in built-up areas of cities above the prefecture level, and the water quality of severely polluted rivers has improved significantly.
Faced with arduous tasks, all localities and departments in Guangdong are fully playing the key role of the river chief system in accordance with the requirements of the provincial party committee and provincial government, facing difficulties, striving to overcome difficulties, and promoting the continuous improvement of the water environment in our province.
[Reporter] Xie Qingyu Huang Jin Zhang Weiwei Published from Shenzhen, Dongguan, Shantou
[Correspondent] Zhong Qizhen
[Photography] Zhang Weiwei Xie Qingyu
[Proofreading] Ye Jianhua
[Author] Xie Qingyu
[Source] Southern Media Group Southern + Client Guangdong Hechang