Changsha Evening News All-Media Reporter Kuang Chunlin Peng Weiwei
At 6 a.m., at the top of Yuelu Mountain, tourists and citizens raised their cameras and mobile phones in their hands to record the beautiful moment of the rising red sun: a touch of red that breaks through the clouds, the clear flowing Xiangjiang River water, and the green city, form the most beautiful urban ecological picture in the midsummer.
In the past ten years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the sky in Changsha has become bluer and the water has become clearer. A random shot is full of scenery: here, wherever you see, "Changsha blue", "Star City Green", and "Xiangjiang Green" are clear and transparent; here, wherever you go, "quiet noise", "clean soil", and "beautiful human habitation" are all in your ears and eyes.
In recent years, Changsha's ecological environment quality has been continuously improved, prominent ecological environment problems have been effectively rectified, environmental risks and hidden dangers have been effectively controlled, and the binding indicators for ecological environment protection in the 13th Five-Year Plan have been successfully completed. The people's satisfaction and sense of gain with the ecological environment have been continuously improved, which has laid the green background and quality of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
"Changsha Blue" permanently stationed in Xingcheng
0 In Changsha in July, the "Blue Sky Defense Battle" is in full swing - sprinkler trucks and fine washing cars are walking through the streets and alleys; excavators that do not meet environmental protection requirements are ordered to leave the construction site; smart meters "focus on" the "every move" of sewage discharge equipment... As of July 8, the total number of days with good air quality in the city this year has reached 157 days, with an excellent rate of 83.1%.
Blue sky and white clouds are the most intuitive feeling of the quality of air in a region.
Ten years ago, PM2.5 was mentioned frequently, with excellent air quality and heavy pollution days not satisfactory; now, the blue sky has long become a "daily product", and PM2.5 is no longer a hot topic.
The change in air quality over the past decade comes from the "Blue Sky Defense Battle" that has been happening in Changsha for ten years.
Changsha took the lead in implementing the "point chief system" of national and provincial control monitoring stations in the province and environmental air quality reward and punishment mechanism, always maintaining a high-pressure situation of "six controls and ten prohibitions", and carrying out "three-level law enforcement and two-level inspections" regularly.
aims at the construction site and does not relax. The city has upgraded the construction site "6 100%" to "8 100%" to promote online monitoring and video surveillance on construction sites; introduced the "three new inspection mechanism" for dust control of slags, and built a 64.48 million cubic slag disposal site and shield soil environmental protection disposal site.
strictly controls emissions and actual combat. 15,541 non-road mobile machinery in the city have completed coding registration, achieving double clearance of low-emission areas coding tasks and emissions that do not meet the standards; 8 high-level video surveillance points of the tower have been built, and severe punishments are imposed on open-air burning garbage; the leadership joint inspection and supervision system is implemented to strictly control open-air straw burning, and the comprehensive utilization rate of straw has reached 90.5%; 14,637 large-scale catering stores have all installed oil fume purification equipment, and 230,000 households in old communities have completed kitchen oil fume control; it is strictly prohibited to set off fireworks and firecrackers during the prohibited burning area, and all 237 fireworks and firecrackers sales stores in the main urban area have been closed and withdrawn.
Two-step improvement and transformation are taken. All 1,070 "scattered, messy and polluting" enterprises in the city have completed rectification; the city's coal-fired boilers are cleared in the city's no-burning zone and the special emission limits are changed outside the no-burning zone; VOCs are promoted and the use of low-VOCs content materials are promoted; it is the first in the province to build an online monitoring platform for oil and gas recovery, and the coal-fired boilers and stove sales in the no-burning zone are cleared.
Joint prevention and control dares to innovate. Changsha signed the "Framework Agreement on Joint Prevention and Control of Air Pollution Transmission Channel City Joint Prevention and Control Cooperation with Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Yueyang, Changde, Yiyang and other channel cities, and promptly coordinated operations; established an expert team of air pollution prevention and control to conduct special research and discussion on key and difficult pollution issues.
Over the past decade, the city's air quality has improved significantly, with the air quality excellent rate rising from 54.0% in 2013 to 83.3% in 2021, the PM2.5 concentration dropped from 83 micrograms/cubic meter in 2013 to 43 micrograms/cubic meter in 2021, and the number of days of heavy pollution decreased from 54 days in 2013 to 7 days in 2021. "Changsha Blue" has repeatedly flooded the screen, attracting fans of the city's strength.
"Star City Green"Shuiqinghe River is clear and smooth
At the bank of Chujia Lake in Kaifu District, a pool of clear water shows the ecological beauty brought by environmental governance: a dense "underwater forest" composed of thorny bitter grass and snapdragon grass is looming, and ecological green islands filled with celery and calamus float on the lake surface, canna, iris, reed bamboo and other plants stand on the waterfront, and egrets live in it and fly.
From the "black and smelly lake" in the past to the current egret habitat, behind the changes in Chujia Lake is Changsha's inexhaustible thinking and unremitting exploration of "water articles" for many years.
In recent years, Changsha has always taken Xiangjiang protection and governance as the "No. 1 Project" and has continuously implemented the three "three-year action plans" for Xiangjiang protection and governance.
whole-region supervision and standardize rectification. The Municipal Environmental Committee Office arranges and dispatches annual key tasks for water pollution prevention and control every year. The city has fully implemented the river (lake) chief system to achieve full coverage supervision of all types of waters. Since 2016, the city has designated 110 centralized drinking water source protection areas at all levels, including cities, counties, townships, etc., and carried out standardized construction of water sources and rectification of environmental problems, effectively ensuring the safety of drinking water for the people.
sewage treatment, network monitoring. 14 sewage treatment plants were built in the main urban area of Changsha, with a sewage treatment rate of 98.4%; the park's industrial sewage was fully collected and treated, and the online monitoring network and standard emissions were achieved; the equipment supporting rate of manure treatment facilities in large-scale breeding farms in the city reached 100%, and the comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure reached 93.1%; the transformation of 1,197 underground oil tanks in 325 gas stations was completed.
river water bodies, efficient management. Take the lead in building a video surveillance system for the main urban area to enter the river, and achieve 24-hour real-time monitoring and early warning of 93 river outlets in the main urban area; carry out investigation and rectification of sewage outlets in the main river in the Xiangjiang River; build a number of ecological water replenishment projects such as Guitang River and Longwanggang to improve the water environment capacity and self-purification capacity of the river; become the first batch of black and odorous water removal cities in the country, among which the Guitang River and Houhu governance models have been promoted.
The water quality excellent rate of the Changsha section of the Xiangjiang River was 91.7% in 2012, and it has achieved "full excellent" since 2015, and the average annual water quality has reached Class II. The excellent water quality rate of Liuyang River was only 22.2% in 2012; starting from 2020, the excellent water quality rate of Liuyang River increased to 100%, and the average annual water quality of the Heishi Ferry section reached Class II in 2020, with excellent water quality. In 2021, the Weishui Ningxiang section, Guitang River, Houhu and Zhushuqiao Reservoirs were rated as the first batch of "beautiful rivers and lakes" in the province; in 2022, Liuyang River and Songya Lake were rated as the "beautiful rivers and lakes excellent cases" in the province.
"Silent noise" and "clean soil" are steadily advancing
"You can sleep comfortably in the future." Looking at the rows of soundproof screens standing up, Ms. Hong, a resident of Outang Group, Pitang Village, Datuo Town, Tianxin District, sighed sincerely.
On the afternoon of December 16, 2021, the Tianxin Branch of Changsha Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau organized the on-site acceptance of the compensation case for noise pollution ecological environment damages for Hunan Liding Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. Through on-site investigation, the sound insulation screen at the noise exceeding the standard points of Hunan Liding Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. has been constructed and has met the national emission standards, marking the successful handling of the first ecological damage compensation case involving noise pollution in Changsha.
The people's sense of environmental gain is the best test of the achievements of Changsha's ecological environment governance.
In recent years, Changsha has continued to carry out silent law enforcement on the "three tests", traffic, construction, social life and industrial noise pollution prevention and control have been continuously strengthened, residents' noise pollution complaints have been effectively dealt with, the construction of noise demonstration control areas in 9 districts, counties (cities) has been basically completed, and the regional environment and road traffic noise have met the national sound environment quality standards.
For ten years, the noise and road traffic sound environment in the city have been generally stable, the sound environment quality has remained at a "good" level, and the intensity level is "second level". The noise compliance rate in functional areas has steadily increased, among which the day compliance rate has increased from 64.3% in 2012 to 100% in 2021, and the night compliance rate has increased from 28.6% in 2012 to 73.8% in 2021.
"Noise silence" is being carried out steadily, while "clean soil" is also being promoted steadily.
Over the past decade, Changsha has comprehensively strengthened soil pollution prevention and control and gradually improved the quality of the soil ecological environment. Strengthen the protection of soil ecological environment for agricultural land, promote soil environmental management and pollution risk control for construction land, promote groundwater ecological environment protection, and deepen agricultural and rural environmental governance.
Over the past decade, the city's soil governance and restoration projects have been steadily promoted, the soil environmental quality is generally safe and stable, and soil environmental risks have been effectively controlled.
"Beautiful living" and beautiful and beautiful
"After the 'loes' becomes 'green', not only the environment becomes more refreshing, but the air also becomes fresher." Aunt Wen, a resident of Loufu Community, Muyun Street, Tianxin District, likes to do morning exercises in two types of environmental protection parks next to Gangzihe Road.
From the exposed loess to the spring, nearly a thousand square meters of empty pings on the west side of the original Louvre community have undergone magnificent transformation. After the ecological re-green, vegetation such as red-leaf heather, four-season green, red-winged wood, azalea and auspicious grass have been planted here, becoming a landscape for nearby residents to "see green when they open the window and see the garden when they go out".
Over the past decade, the city's urban and rural environment has been continuously improved, "beauty of human living" has gradually formed, and the happiness index of human living environment has continued to improve.
Strengthen supervision and regain green and fishing. Changsha vigorously promoted the rectification of illegal and irregular issues in nature reserves, completed 769 hectares of greening on the waterfront beaches of Xiangjiang River and its main tributaries, controlled 15,200 hectares of soil erosion, closed mountains and cultivated forests at the source of major tributaries such as Liuyang River and Laodao River, promoted the pilot construction of Liuyang River National Wetland Park, and carried out special actions to clear ships, clear nets, clear rivers and clear rivers. The total area of wetlands in Changsha is 39,812.29 hectares, the wetland protection area is 28,617.91 hectares, and the wetland protection rate reaches 71.88%; there are 5 national-level wetland parks and 1 provincial-level wetland park.
Waste disposal, improve energy and efficiency. Changsha vigorously improves the construction of hazardous waste disposal capacity, realizes the full collection and disposal of medical waste in the city, and actively promotes the expansion of Changsha Hazardous Waste Disposal Center; fully implements the hazardous waste transfer joint management system, registration and filing system, and operates business license system, comprehensively carry out hazardous waste list management, and completes the large-scale investigation and investigation of hazardous wastes in 10,645 enterprises.
Domestic waste, harmlessly dispose of. The harmless treatment rate of domestic waste in urban areas of the city has reached 100%. New urban domestic waste incineration power plants have been built to realize the transformation of domestic waste from landfill to comprehensive incineration power generation; vigorously promote garbage classification and collection and utilization of kitchen waste, and is one of the first cities among the second batch of kitchen waste treatment pilot cities in the country to achieve full coverage of kitchen waste collection, transportation and treatment.
Inspectoring strictly manages and ecology serves the people. Changsha fully plays the effectiveness of ecological and environmental supervision and law enforcement, the ability to deal with petitions has been continuously improved, and the number of people’s complaints has continued to decline. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the city's ecological environment law enforcement system handled a total of 4,522 environmental violations, and all case handling data were the leading figures in the province, which effectively deterred ecological and environmental violations; basically established a regulatory mechanism with "double random and one disclosure" supervision as the basic means, key supervision as supplemented, and credit supervision as the basis, and took the "four strict and four basic" strict law enforcement pilot as an opportunity to fully implement the "three systems" of administrative law enforcement; took the lead in the province to issue a "positive list" for supervision and law enforcement; strengthened the construction and application of non-site law enforcement capabilities such as online monitoring, energy use monitoring, and video surveillance; implemented the notification and commitment system for minor violations; promoted the standardization of environmental emergency capabilities, carried out emergency drills for emergencies in the city every year, and coordinated and handled 21 emergency accidents.
Over the past decade, the city's urban and rural garbage classification reduction has been fully promoted, and the harmless treatment rate of domestic waste in urban areas is 100%. Comprehensive rural environmental improvement has been fully implemented, and the rectification tasks of 650 administrative villages have been completed ahead of schedule. The development concept of ecology benefiting the people, ecology benefiting the people, and ecology serves the people has been further highlighted.
Witnesses said
Director of the Comprehensive Department of Changsha Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau:
Build a "big environmental protection" pattern to promote the green development of Changsha
When mentioning the changes in Changsha's ecological environment, Hou Dejun, a veteran of the environmental protection front, was deeply touched. In his opinion, in recent years, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the ecological environment of Changsha can be said to have undergone fundamental and turning points.
10 years ago, smog weather became the number one problem faced by many cities across the country. In the face of heavy pollution weather, are you helpless? The answer is no. Changsha continues to promote the battle to defend the blue sky in depth. Now, "Changsha Blue" has spread the circle of friends among citizens.
10 years ago, Houhu was still a stinky pond. "Illegal buildings are everywhere, garbage is piled up, sewage flows everywhere, and the smell is stinking."Hou Dejun told reporters that the nearby domestic sewage was directly discharged from Houhu Lake at that time, and the water area was shrinking year by year, and the water quality was getting worse and worse. Changsha vigorously promoted the management of "one river and six lakes". Houhu Lake has undergone ecological restoration, organic transformation, and industrial cultivation. After comprehensive rectification, Houhu Lake has been reborn and has become an international art park integrating leisure, literature and art functions.
"Now, the responsibility for ecological and environmental protection work in Changsha has been tighter and more practical. In the past, the era of "fighting alone" by environmental protection has gone far away. "Hou Dejun said that all relevant departments, enterprises and the public in the city have participated and worked together to make efforts. The "big environmental protection" pattern has been formed. Changsha's green GDP accounted for year by year, and the green foundation for high-quality development has been built stronger.
"Extraordinary Ten Years" Events
2014
Changsha released the "Changsha Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" "Changsha Water Pollution Prevention and Control Work Plan"
Changsha Implementation The strictest environmental protection action in history, making the sky bluer, the ground greener, and the water clearer
2015
The third round of "Three-Year Environmental Protection Action Plan" started to be compiled
The work system of the Municipal Environmental Committee was officially issued
The first environmental protection culture festival in Changsha opened
2016
Changsha City has implemented traffic restrictions on all roads (including border roads) in the urban second ring road enclosed area (including border roads) and motor vehicles without green environmental protection signs Passage measures are made, 24 hours a day,
2017
cooperates with the central environmental protection inspection
2018
cooperates with provincial environmental protection inspection
starts the three-year action plan for blue sky protection
2019
Changsha Ecological Environment Bureau was officially established, and all 9 districts, counties (cities) branches of Changsha Ecological Environment Bureau have been listed, marking the Changsha Ecological Environment Industry The new journey after formally starting a vertical management
2020
cooperates with the provincial ecological environment protection inspection "look back"
2021
Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government issued the "Changsha City's Three-Year Action Plan for Continuous Improving Air Quality and Resolutely Winning the Battle of Blue Sky Protection (2021-2023)"
Since 2017, Changsha has received 5 rounds of ecological environment protection inspections and "look back"
