Decision on further strengthening environmental protection work
No.71 [2002] of Guangdong Province
Decision on further strengthening environmental protection work
People’s governments of cities, counties and autonomous counties, and relevant units directly under the provincial capital:
In order to thoroughly implement the principles and policies of the party and the state on environmental protection, conscientiously implement the spirit of the Ninth Party Congress of Guangdong Province, further create new environmental advantages in our province, create a virtuous circle of development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology, and build a strong economic province in Guangdong, the following decisions are made:
First, clear objectives and implement a comprehensive decision-making system for environment and development.
Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, great progress has been made in environmental protection in our province, the trend of increasing pollution has been initially curbed, and the environmental quality of some cities and regions has improved. However, at present, the environmental situation is still grim, the total amount of pollutants discharged remains high, and the regional and watershed environmental pollution has not been fundamentally alleviated. Environmental pollution and ecological destruction have become the restrictive factors for the sustainable economic and social development of our province.
During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period and even in the next ten years, the environmental protection work in our province should be guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and Comrade Theory of Three Represents of Jiang Zemin, with the goal of improving environmental quality and ensuring human health, adhere to the strategy of sustainable development, strengthen pollution control and ecological protection, and achieve a fundamental improvement in environmental conditions. It is necessary to conscientiously implement the total discharge control plan of major pollutants in the province, speed up the implementation of the "Castle Peak, Clear Water, Blue Sky and Green Space" project, and focus on comprehensive improvement of urban and rural environment and ecological construction, so as to reduce the environmental pollution in the province, further curb the deterioration trend of the ecological environment, effectively protect the water quality of important rivers, lakes, drinking water sources and coastal waters, and significantly improve the environmental quality of urban and rural areas, especially in large and medium-sized cities.
(1) Implementing a comprehensive decision-making system for environment and development.Major decisions on economic and social development, including regional and river basin development, urban and industrial development, productivity distribution and structural adjustment, and major construction projects, must implement the principle of ecological priority and conduct environmental impact assessment. Governments at all levels should establish a joint conference system on environment and development, regularly convene leaders and experts of relevant departments to jointly review major decisions related to the environment, assess their impact on the environment, study various measures to ensure environmental safety, and coordinate and solve major environmental problems across regions and basins.
(two) to establish and improve the supervision mechanism of major decisions.Comprehensive decision-making on environment and development should be regarded as an important content of inspection and supervision by superiors to subordinates. Effectively strengthen legal supervision, public supervision and public opinion supervision over major decisions related to the environment. Supervision departments at all levels should regularly organize special supervision and inspection and put forward supervision suggestions. Leading cadres who have caused serious environmental pollution and ecological damage accidents due to major decision-making mistakes or violations of environmental protection laws and regulations should be investigated for their responsibilities according to law.
(3) Establish a system of public participation in environmental protection.Environmental protection departments should disclose the environmental quality, enterprise sewage discharge and environmental protection approval of construction projects to the public. For major decisions involving people’s environmental rights and interests and decisions on development and construction projects, a publicity or hearing system should be implemented to listen to opinions from all sides. The news media should always spread the environmental quality and major issues of environmental protection to the society, and effectively protect the people’s right to know, participate and supervise the environment. It is necessary to encourage and support public participation in actions beneficial to environmental protection and supervision and management of the environment.
Second, strengthen water quality protection and comprehensively control the water environment.
(a) focus on strengthening the protection of drinking water sources.Conscientiously implement the river water quality protection plan, effectively implement the water environment function zoning, clarify the responsibility of water quality protection and pollution prevention, and comprehensively strengthen water quality protection. It is necessary to focus on strengthening the protection of drinking water sources, and all sewage discharge activities are strictly prohibited in drinking water source protection areas; Pollution sources that threaten the safety of drinking water sources should be resolutely relocated or closed; Livestock and poultry farms (points) built in drinking water source protection areas should be resolutely banned. Strictly control aquaculture. It is strictly forbidden to build or expand construction projects that pollute water bodies. Effectively protect groundwater resources. Take all measures to achieve the water quality standard of drinking water sources, and focus on solving the problem of "drinking water difficulty" in water-deficient areas.
(2) Strengthen the comprehensive improvement of river basins.Accelerate the implementation of the "Guangdong Clear Water Project Plan" and focus on major water environment improvement projects in the region. Taking the comprehensive management of the Pearl River as a breakthrough, we will promote the comprehensive management of "Eight Rivers" (Guangzhou reach of the Pearl River, Danshui River, Shima River, Dongguan Canal, Fengjiang River, Lianjiang River, Fenjiang River and Tianshahe River) and "Two Lakes" (Huizhou West Lake and Zhaoqing Star Lake) and the ecological restoration projects of Xiaodongjiang River and Qijiang River, and manage urban reach in a planned way to improve the water environment quality in heavily polluted areas. Implementation of cross-city river junction section water quality assessment.
(3) Pay close attention to urban sewage treatment.We must incorporate the construction of urban sewage treatment facilities into the national economic and social development plan, and ensure the implementation of the sewage treatment facilities construction plan in terms of policies and funds. During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, sewage treatment facilities must be built in cities and towns with an actual population of over 500,000 and villages and towns in key river basins. While building new water supply facilities, all localities must plan and build corresponding sewage treatment facilities in areas where sewage treatment facilities have not been built or areas not covered by municipal pipe networks. By 2005, the treatment rate of urban domestic sewage in the whole province will reach 45%, and cities with an actual population of more than 500 thousand will reach 60%; By 2010, the treatment rate of urban domestic sewage in the whole province will be no less than 60%, and that of cities with an actual population of more than 500,000 will be no less than 70%.
(4) Effectively promote water conservation.Strictly control the development of water-consuming industries and reasonably control the growth of water demand. Complete the transformation of high pollution and high water consumption production process within a time limit, and shut down, stop, merge and transfer those that cannot be completed within the time limit. It is necessary to put water conservation in a prominent position, vigorously implement water-saving measures, and develop water-saving agriculture, industry and service industries. Vigorously promote the recycling of recycled water and reclaimed water, and the recycling rate of industrial water is over 60%.
Three, strictly control industrial pollution, reduce the total amount of pollutants discharged year by year.
(a) to strengthen the management of key industrial pollution sources.Combined with the adjustment of industrial structure, we should focus on pollution control in electric power, building materials, chemical industry, smelting, sugar making, fermentation, electroplating, textile printing and dyeing, leather making and other industries. The enterprise’s sewage discharge must be stably controlled within the discharge standard, and the comprehensive compliance work should be carried out on the basis of the first compliance. Those who exceed the standard should be ordered to stop production for rectification. Strictly implement the system of pollutant discharge registration, licensing and total control, strictly control the discharge of major pollutants, and reduce them year by year. It is strictly forbidden to build new thermal power units of 135,000 kilowatts or less in the whole province, and no new thermal power plants will be planned or built in the Pearl River Delta region and the urban and suburban areas of acid rain control areas. Newly built and under construction thermal power plants must be equipped with desulfurization facilities. Existing thermal power plants must be equipped with desulfurization facilities within a time limit in accordance with the national Technical Policy for Prevention and Control of Pollution Caused by Sulfur Dioxide Emissions from Coal Burning, the Tenth Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection in Guangdong Province and the Blue Sky Project Plan in Guangdong Province. Strengthen the supervision and management of the production and use of ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons and halons, and eliminate all ozone-depleting substances by 2010. Gradually establish an industrialization mechanism for centralized treatment of industrial sewage and solid waste. Listed in the provincial and municipal key monitoring of polluting enterprises and newly-built polluting enterprises, it is necessary to force them to install online monitoring devices, and gradually realize real-time transmission and real-time monitoring of pollutant emission data.
(2) Actively promoting cleaner production.Governments at all levels should incorporate cleaner production into national economic and social development plans and plans for environmental protection, resource utilization, industrial development and regional development. Accelerate the technological transformation of enterprises and eliminate backward production capacity, technology and technology. The prevention and control of industrial pollution should be changed from the end treatment to the whole process control, which starts from the source and focuses on prevention. We should persist in promoting clean production and circular economy, and combine it with industrial structure adjustment, technological transformation of enterprises, comprehensive utilization of resources, discharge of pollutants up to standard and total amount control to realize increasing production without increasing pollution or increasing production and reducing pollution. Encourage the development of energy-saving, consumption-reducing and pollution-reducing industries. Resolutely close down enterprises with poor product quality, waste of resources and serious pollution. It is forbidden to transfer pollution projects to mountainous areas in the adjustment of industrial structure. All localities should build a number of cleaner production demonstration enterprises, eco-industrial demonstration zones and circular economy demonstration zones. Actively promote international environmental management system certification and environmental label product certification to promote the development of foreign trade.
(three) the implementation of environmental protection pre-approval.All technological transformation projects, resource development and regional development and construction projects that have an impact on the environment must be examined and approved in accordance with legal procedures, and the environmental impact assessment and the "three simultaneities" system must be strictly implemented. Regional development and construction shall, in the overall planning stage, organize environmental impact assessment and prepare special plans for environmental protection. Construction projects that fail to implement the environmental impact assessment system shall not be approved. Where the project is subject to the approval of the environmental protection department without approval, the relevant departments shall not approve the project, land acquisition, registration and issuance of business licenses.
Four, strengthen urban and rural environmental protection, and effectively improve the quality of urban environment.
(a) continue to carry out comprehensive improvement of the urban environment.Actively promote the establishment of national environmental protection model cities and advanced environmental protection cities in our province, comprehensively carry out comprehensive improvement of urban environment, and accelerate the construction of urban greening, beautification and purification projects. Vigorously promote the reduction, harmlessness and resource treatment of urban solid waste, effectively control hazardous waste, and prohibit open burning of solid waste. Cities in the Pearl River Delta region must complete the preparation of solid waste treatment planning within their jurisdiction before 2005, and consider the construction of various solid waste treatment facilities as a whole. Compulsory recycling, restricted use and elimination within a time limit shall be implemented for disposable packaging materials and supplies that are not easily absorbed by the environment. Overall planning and construction of domestic waste treatment facilities, explore ways to use market mechanism for waste treatment. All localities should pay attention to solving environmental problems that are strongly reflected by the masses and have outstanding problems, and increase the prevention and supervision of motor vehicle exhaust pollution; Focus on controlling the dust pollution of urban buildings; Strengthen the supervision and management of noise in construction, industrial production and social life, and effectively solve the problem of noise disturbing people. Strengthen radiation environmental management. By 2005, the urban air, drinking water sources and acoustic environmental quality of prefecture-level cities and some county-level cities in the province will meet the national environmental quality standards according to the requirements of functional areas; By 2010, the urban air, surface water and acoustic environmental quality of cities in the province will meet the national environmental quality standards according to the requirements of functional areas.
(2) Strengthening environmental protection in agriculture and rural areas.The prevention and control of agricultural pollution should combine the adjustment of agricultural structure with the control of agricultural pollution sources, vigorously develop ecological agriculture, and actively develop organic food, green food and pollution-free food. Actively carry out the comprehensive utilization of crop straw, and prohibit burning straw near traffic trunk lines, high-voltage transmission lines and areas designated by municipal people’s governments at all levels. Guide and help farmers to use fertilizers and pesticides rationally, prevent and reduce pesticide and fertilizer residue pollution, and ensure the safety of agricultural products and the environment. Organize the investigation of agricultural ecological environment in the producing areas of important agricultural products, improve the comprehensive utilization and protection benefits of land, and establish agricultural product protection zones.
We should take the activity of creating "civilized small towns" as an important task. Governments at all levels should actively carry out the activities of "towns with beautiful environment" and "ecological demonstration villages (towns, farms and gardens)" and carry out the construction of ecological agriculture demonstration cities, counties and towns in depth. It is necessary to incorporate urban environmental protection planning as a special content into the overall urban construction planning and seriously organize its implementation.
(3) Pay attention to ecological environment protection.Carry out a comprehensive survey of natural ecology in the province, and speed up the preparation and implementation of ecological function zoning and ecological protection and construction planning. Major ecological protection and construction projects should be incorporated into the long-term and annual plans for national economic and social development, and governments at all levels should increase their investment in ecological protection. The tasks of ecological protection and construction should be included in the scope of environmental protection responsibility assessment, strengthen leadership and implement responsibilities. It is forbidden to build projects that damage the ecological environment. For projects that may affect the ecological environment, ecological protection must be carried out simultaneously with resource development and project construction, and the ecological protection of sensitive areas of soil erosion should be strengthened in strict accordance with the management requirements for the division of key prevention and control areas of soil erosion in the province. We will continue to strengthen the construction of nature reserves, ecological demonstration areas, agricultural ecological protection areas and ecological public welfare forests, strengthen the protection of wild animals and plants, and maintain biodiversity. It is necessary to strengthen the strategic position of mountainous areas as the ecological barrier of the whole province. Further strengthen the protection of marine environment and the protection of coastal zones, mangroves, coral reefs and other ecosystems. Carry out investigation and planning of mine ecological environment protection, and speed up the construction of mine ecological environment restoration and management demonstration area.
We should actively promote the construction of a sustainable development demonstration zone in the Pearl River Delta region. Give further play to the exemplary role of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Zhongshan in building eco-cities and continuously strengthen the construction of urban and rural ecological civilization. All localities should strengthen the protection of the city and its surrounding mountains, water bodies and farmland, establish a "green belt around the city", and prohibit construction and development activities within the green belt to prevent the disorderly spread of cities, ensure the open space between cities, improve the urban ecology and promote the sustainable development of cities.
Five, actively carry out environmental science research, vigorously develop environmental protection industry.
(a) to strengthen the practical technology research of environmental protection.Research, develop and popularize practical pollution control technologies and cleaner production processes. Carry out practical environmental management policy research and monitoring and monitoring technology research for environmental management. The practical technology and product development of environmental protection will be included in the key plan of the province and given key support. The provincial finance should allocate a certain proportion of the three annual scientific and technological expenses to carry out scientific and technological research on environmental protection, and finance at all levels should also allocate certain funds for scientific research on environmental protection.
(2) Accelerate the development of environmental protection industry.When formulating the national economic and social development plan, environmental protection industry should be regarded as the key development field. The provincial people’s government set up an environmental protection industry coordination group to study and formulate policies and measures to accelerate the development of environmental protection industry and coordinate and solve major problems in development. Take China’s accession to the WTO as an opportunity to speed up the structural adjustment of environmental protection industry, and form a group of competitive backbone enterprises and environmental protection brand-name products to meet the needs of pollution control and ecological protection as soon as possible through mergers, alliances and restructuring, and rely on scientific and technological progress to promote the structural optimization of environmental protection industry and the improvement of overall technical level. Accelerate the construction of environmental protection industry standard system, strengthen the quality management, supervision and inspection of environmental protection products, establish an independent and fair third-party certification system for environmental protection products based on the principle of voluntary application by enterprises and unified management by the government, and promote the healthy and orderly development of environmental protection industry.
Vigorously develop the environmental protection industry service system with the contents of financing, technical consultation, information service, environmental engineering and facility operation management, and personnel training.
Six, broaden the channels of environmental protection funds, and effectively increase investment in environmental protection.
(1) Establish a diversified investment mechanism for environmental protection.Formulate investment and financing policies conducive to environmental protection, encourage and support all kinds of funds at home and abroad to invest in environmental protection projects, and gradually increase the proportion of investment in environmental pollution prevention and control in the GDP of the same period. The implementation of the total pollutant discharge fee system. We will gradually try out emissions trading and use market mechanisms to reduce the cost of pollution control. According to the principle of "whoever invests will benefit", a benign mechanism of self-management, self-financing and self-development will be established to promote the marketization of investment and operation of environmental pollution control.
(2) Increase investment in environmental protection.All localities should implement the necessary funds in accordance with the environmental control tasks and projects proposed in the Outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of Guangdong Province and the Tenth Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection of Guangdong Province. Finance at all levels should establish special funds for environmental protection and effectively increase the fiscal expenditure on environmental protection at the corresponding level. The funds for environmental protection administration at all levels should be guaranteed by the annual budget. All kinds of special funds for environmental protection originally included in the provincial financial arrangements remain unchanged, and shall be implemented according to the existing provisions of the state and the province. Among them, the annual special funds for environmental protection arranged by the provincial finance increased from 50 million yuan to 200 million yuan from 2003 to 2005, and then increased year by year depending on the financial situation, mainly used for comprehensive and public welfare major environmental construction projects, environmental protection demonstration projects, comprehensive improvement of regional and river basin environment, environmental management capacity building, important environmental protection legislation and policy research projects, and major environmental protection science and technology projects. It is necessary to strengthen the supervision and management of financial environmental protection investment funds and improve the efficiency in the use of funds.
The relevant cities and counties included in the key river basin should extract a certain proportion from the annual fiscal revenue for the water quality protection of river sections within their jurisdiction. By the provincial finance, environmental protection and other departments jointly formulate measures for the management of special funds for water quality protection in the basin, and jointly manage them with the municipal and county governments in the basin.
Seven, strengthen the construction of environmental legal system, increase environmental publicity and education.
(1) Accelerate the pace of local environmental protection legislation.In accordance with the overall requirements of governing the province according to law, combined with the actual situation of this province, starting from strengthening and improving the administrative management of environmental protection and adapting to the requirements of the socialist market economic system, accelerate the pace of local environmental protection legislation. In line with the forthcoming Regulations on Environmental Protection in Guangdong Province, we will formulate a number of separate laws and government regulations on environmental protection with Guangdong characteristics and in line with the market economy, so as to create a good legal environment for promoting sustainable economic and social development.
(2) Strengthening the supervision and management of environmental protection law enforcement.Governments at all levels should conscientiously implement laws and regulations on environmental protection and seriously investigate and deal with illegal acts. We must resolutely implement the principle of "polluter pays", and treat the pollutant discharge units that fail to meet the standards within a time limit. If they fail to meet the standards within the time limit, they shall be ordered to suspend business or close down according to law; Units that discharge or steal pollutants beyond the standard shall be severely punished; Environmental protection departments should order pollutant discharge units that threaten public environmental safety to stop discharging pollutants.
(3) Extensive publicity and education on environmental protection.In-depth development of the "South Guangdong Environmental Protection Century Tour" activities, and conscientiously do a good job in the publicity and reporting of environmental protection law enforcement inspections. News media should actively publicize environmental protection laws and regulations, advanced models of environmental protection, expose and criticize illegal acts, and give full play to the supervisory role of news public opinion. Establish and improve the socialized environmental education system, and incorporate the education of sustainable development and environmental protection into the national education system and the implementation content of citizen moral construction. Environmental protection should be regarded as a compulsory course for the training of administrative colleges and cadres at all levels. Continue to do a good job in environmental education in primary and secondary schools, and carry out in-depth activities to create "green schools", "green kindergartens" and "environmental education bases".
Eight, strengthen leadership, pay close attention to implementation.
(a) the top leader personally, take overall responsibility.Governments at all levels should make overall consideration and correctly handle the relationship between economic construction and population, resources and environment, and put environmental protection at the same important position as developing productive forces. According to the spirit of the central government’s instruction that the top leaders of the party and government should personally take overall responsibility for environmental protection, we should establish an environmental protection working mechanism of "the main leaders of the government are responsible, the environmental protection departments are under unified supervision, and all departments should work together." Governments at all levels should regularly listen to reports on environmental protection work, study and solve major problems in environment and development, and comprehensively coordinate various departments to carry out environmental protection work; It is necessary to go deep into the grassroots to investigate and study the environmental protection work, fully grasp the environmental quality status and main problems in the jurisdiction, and help solve the practical difficulties in environmental protection work.
(two) to establish and improve the assessment system of environmental protection responsibility of government leaders.People’s governments at all levels should fulfill the responsibility of protecting the environment according to law, include the tasks of environmental protection and ecological construction in the management content of the term objectives of government leaders at all levels, and implement the assessment of environmental protection responsibility. The improvement of environmental quality and the completion of environmental protection objectives and responsibilities within the jurisdiction are regarded as important contents for assessing the achievements of the main leaders of governments at all levels.
(3) Strengthening the capacity building of environmental management.Governments at all levels should pay attention to and strengthen the construction of environmental protection institutions in accordance with the requirements of the State Council on "unified regulations, unified planning and unified supervision", and enrich the power of environmental monitoring, information, science and technology, standards and publicity and education. All localities should, in accordance with the requirements of Guangdong Province’s "Tenth Five-Year Plan for Technical Capacity Building of Environmental Management", effectively enhance the on-site law enforcement supervision and technical supervision capabilities of environmental protection, and ensure that environmental protection departments exercise their functions and powers according to law. Environmental protection departments at all levels should standardize law enforcement behavior, improve law enforcement procedures, and improve the quality and level of law enforcement personnel. Relevant departments of planning, economy and trade, finance, urban construction, public security, industry and commerce, water conservancy, transportation, agriculture and forestry at all levels should play their functions, perform their environmental protection duties according to law, and strengthen and promote environmental protection work.
people’s government of guangdong province
September 28th, 2002