huang Runqiu, minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said on the afternoon of May 25 that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the situation of China's ecological environment protection is still grim, and it is necessary to continue to fight the battle of pollution prevention and control. "Of course, it is an upgraded version of pollution prevention and control".
The second plenary session of the third session of the 13th National People's Congress held the second "ministerial channel" interview this afternoon, inviting some of the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council to be interviewed through online video.
In an interview with reporters on the "ministerial Channel", Huang Runqiu said that since the implementation of the 13th Five-Year Plan, China's pollution prevention and control battle has made key progress and the overall quality of the ecological environment has improved. As of the end of 2019, the "13th Five-Year Plan" has identified 9 binding indicators in the ecological environment field, of which 7 have completed the target tasks ahead of schedule.
"But the structural, root-cause and trend pressures of ecological environmental protection have not been fundamentally alleviated on the whole." Huang Runqiu said that the turning point of the quality of the ecological environment from quantitative change to qualitative change has not yet arrived.
He used "three no fundamental changes" to describe the current grim situation of environmental protection: the industrial structure dominated by heavy chemical industry and the energy structure dominated by coal have not been fundamentally changed, the transportation structure mainly based on road freight transportation has not been fundamentally changed; The severe situation of environmental pollution control and ecological protection has not been fundamentally changed; The high-risk situation of frequent ecological and environmental events has not been fundamentally changed.
Huang Runqiu said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's pollution prevention and control will still adhere to the "Two Hands". On the one hand, it will highlight the precision, science, and law-based pollution control, and fight the upgraded version of pollution prevention and control, through the implementation of major projects such as blue sky, clear water, Pure Land, ecological protection and beautiful bay, the quality of ecological environment will be continuously improved. On the other hand, vigorously promote structural adjustment and development of green and low-carbon transformation, adhere to ecological priority, green development promotes greater breakthroughs in the transformation of green development mode and lifestyle.
In response to a question from a reporter from Dragon TV about the central ecological environmental protection inspector, Huang Runqiu said that the central ecological environmental protection inspector has always been keeping a close eye on the implementation of the ecological environmental protection responsibilities of local Party committees and governments and their relevant departments. Since it was piloted in Hebei province in December 2015, the first round of central environmental protection inspectors has achieved full coverage of the first round of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and carry out "looking back" on 20 provinces (districts) ". On 2019, a second round of inspections was conducted on six provinces (cities) and two central enterprises, and remarkable results were achieved.
He told reporters that this year, the ministry of ecological environment will also launch the second round of the second batch of central ecological environmental protection inspectors, focusing on the implementation of the major decisions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on ecological environmental protection, around the outstanding ecological environment problems reflected by the masses and the implementation of the key tasks of pollution prevention and control, the inspectors were carried out.
(Source: First Finance and Economics)