Ministry of Environmental Protection: will conduct surprise inspections around air pollution

"The situation facing the prevention and control of air pollution is very serious now." Zhao Hualin, Director of the Financial Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said at the "2013 Environmental Protection Annual Meeting" on the 13th. In order to better control air pollution, on the one hand, the State Council is “relaxing” provincial leaders. From the previous assessment requirements of GDP growth, it has gradually changed to put people’s livelihood issues and environmental protection issues at a very important position, and explore new roads for environmental protection. . On the other hand, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will take the lead in continuing to implement the air pollution prevention action plan, in which the management of industrial pollution is still a very important aspect.

During the "11" period, the smog in North China, especially in Beijing, lasted for a long time, and the prevention and control of air pollution once again became a hot topic in society. The "Economic Information Daily (microblogging)" reporter learned that from the beginning of this month to April next year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will launch a special law enforcement inspection of air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region based on the "Atmosphere Ten". Currently, various places in North China are being The local exhaust gas enterprises will be investigated and the list will be reported to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Then the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Ministry of Environmental Protection will go directly to the local area for surprise inspections at the end of October or early November, all of which are inspection methods without prior notice to the enterprise. Enterprises mainly involved in exhaust emissions include steel plants, power plants, chemical plants, cement plants, building materials plants, etc.

Zhao Hualin admits that in order to formulate an air pollution action plan, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has specially visited the United States. In comparison, China's industrial pollution prevention and control still faces many problems. For example, he said that the current operating cost of a 600,000-kilowatt desulfurization unit is 70 million yuan. The full-load operation of the "stolen" one-day benefit can reach more than 200,000 yuan, which is very impressive. Because of this, some power plants Even if environmentalists are stalking there, the main leaders are even risking their removal.

"Our supervision and management tasks will be very serious, and the next step is definitely not to relax the industrial pollution," he said. It is worth noting that since May this year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and other departments have carried out the national environmental protection special actions for rectifying illegal sewage companies from the spring to the autumn, which is still in progress and is expected to end at the end of November. On October 12, the Ministry of Environmental Protection notified 72 environmentally unscrupulous companies that were discovered by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, including the Lanzhou Blue Star Co., Ltd. methanol plant in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, Yongdeng Qilianshan Cement Co., Ltd., and Chinalco Group Lanzhou. Branch Aluminium Plant, Guodian Lanzhou Fanping Thermal Power Co., Ltd., Chinalco Group Lanzhou Branch's own power plant, Xigu District Wastewater Treatment Plant, Yongdeng Wastewater Treatment Plant and other companies.