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From 0:00 on April 4, Beijing upgraded the level of severe air pollution to orange alert. So far, 15 cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and five provinces (cities) including Shanxi and Henan have issued orange and yellow alerts for severe air pollution. During the Qingming Festival, seven inspection teams led by Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, continued to inspect the implementation of emergency plans for severe pollution weather in seven places including Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Baoding, Xingtai and Anyang.

Facing the inspection of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, illegal enterprises are full of ugly behaviors: some enterprises resume production as soon as the inspectors leave; some enterprises' online sulfur dioxide monitoring data is negative; some enterprises falsify...The Ministry of Environmental Protection reported that the responsible persons of the relevant enterprises have been administratively detained because of the falsification of online monitoring data.

Today, the "small, scattered and dirty" enterprises in Beichen District, Tianjin, which are producing in violation of regulations, just ran into Zhao Yingmin's "gun". The Ministry of Environmental Protection disclosed that Zhao Yingmin led a team to inspect and found that under the orange warning of heavy pollution weather, some enterprises still went their own way.

Beijing, Tianjin and other places suffered heavy pollution for the first time after the heating was stopped

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, from April 3 to 7, due to unfavorable meteorological conditions, Beijing, Tianjin, some cities in Shanxi, northern Henan and cities along the Taihang Mountains successively experienced heavy pollution weather processes, and this heavy pollution weather process lasted for a long time and affected a wide range.

So far, 13 cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan, Baoding, Langfang, Zhengzhou, Hebi, Anyang, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Puyang, Yuncheng and Jincheng have launched orange warnings for heavy air pollution, and Handan and Xingtai have launched yellow warnings. This is also the first time that a large-scale heavy air pollution warning has been launched after the heating was stopped in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei this spring.

Regarding this heavy air pollution, during the short holiday, Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining presided over air quality decision-making consultation meetings every afternoon to deploy response measures.

Increased economic activities are the main cause of this pollution

The heating season has ended, why is there still a heavy pollution process? The Ministry of Environmental Protection responded to the public's confusion at the first time.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection pointed out in a notice that the increase in economic activities has led to a substantial increase in the emission of air pollutants, which is the primary reason for the continued heavy pollution.

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, since the beginning of 2017, China's production and demand have rebounded. The thermal power generation in Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong has increased by 16.8%, 4.3%, 9.4% and 9.3% respectively compared with the same period in 2016; the crude steel output in Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and Shandong has increased by 22.5%, 2.9%, 9%, 13.5% and 6.5% respectively; the flat glass production in Henan and Shanxi has increased by 107.7% and 14.2% respectively; the coke production in Shanxi and Shandong has increased by 10.7% and 6.2% respectively; the cement production in Henan and Shandong has increased by 3.54% and 5.31% respectively.

At the same time, after mid-March, enterprises that had stopped production during the winter off-peak production period, especially cement enterprises, resumed production on a large scale. Among them, 55 cement enterprises in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have resumed production. In addition, at the end of March and the beginning of April each year, construction projects in various places are started one after another, and dust emissions from construction, muck transport vehicles, etc. increase.

As for the cause of this pollution, the Ministry of Environmental Protection stated that the increase in the number and use of motor vehicles also led to an increase in pollutant emissions, and the continued unfavorable meteorological conditions raised the PM2.5 concentration.

Some enterprises resumed production as soon as the inspection team left.

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, in response to this severe air pollution, Tangshan City launched an orange warning and required all cement grinding enterprises to stop production.

However, the inspection team of the Ministry of Environmental Protection found in a spot check from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m. on the 3rd that the three grinding station enterprises of Tangshan Fengrun District Jingfeng Cement Plant, Tangshan Jinshan Cement Co., Ltd., and Tangshan Fushun Cement Co., Ltd. were all in production; Tangshan Zhengfeng Tower Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Tangshan Fuhaixin Steel Co., Ltd., two steel rolling enterprises, did not stop production according to the time specified in the emergency plan.

"Tangshan Fushun Cement Co., Ltd. was in a state of suspension during the inspection on the afternoon of April 2, but resumed production after the inspection team left." This method of deceiving the law enforcement officers of the Ministry of Environmental Protection is not only in Tangshan. The Ministry of Environmental Protection disclosed that Shijiazhuang Lilong Ceramics Co., Ltd. idled desulfurization facilities, secretly discharged kiln exhaust gas, and had phenol water pool leakage. The desulfurization facilities were temporarily opened during the inspection, and the desulfurization tower was shut down 5 minutes after the inspection team left.

In addition, the exhaust gas purification facilities of Lifeng Accor Great Wall Printing Co., Ltd. in Tongzhou District, Beijing were not started, and the company forged the facility operation record to deceive the inspectors.

And the practice of Dongliang Veneer Factory in Xingtai Development Zone is even more "decisive": "After the inspection team and local environmental protection departments showed their certificates and enforced the law, they refused to accept the inspection."

The sulfur dioxide data of one enterprise was actually negative

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, this inspection once again found the problem of falsification of online monitoring data of atmospheric pollutants by enterprises.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection disclosed that the online monitoring facilities of Xingtai Nanxian Chengqu Thermal Power Co., Ltd. were falsified. After the public security department cooperated in the investigation, it was found that the company's operators falsified the online monitoring system and displayed the emission concentration as fluctuating within a small range. At present, the Nanhe County Public Security Bureau has administratively detained the person responsible. The inspection found that the online sulfur dioxide monitoring data of Fengyuan New Materials Co., Ltd. in Neihuang County, Anyang City was actually negative.

In addition, the online data of Tangshan Shengxue Dacheng Tangshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Tangshan Zhengfeng Tower Manufacturing Co., Ltd. were inaccurate; Tangshan Fuhaixin Steel Co., Ltd. had zero sulfur dioxide data, and the data acquisition instrument was turned off without authorization, so the data could not be transmitted to the monitoring platform.

5 state-controlled enterprises exceeded pollutant emissions

During this severe air pollution, not all small enterprises had illegal problems. The online monitoring platform of the Ministry of Environmental Protection showed that on April 1, among the "2+26" urban elevated source enterprises in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas, five enterprises, including Hebei Xibaipo Second Power Generation Co., Ltd., Hebei Ruilian Chemical Co., Ltd., Huantai County Tangshan Thermal Power Co., Ltd., Shandong Qixing Changshan Thermal Power Co., Ltd., and Zhengzhou Taixiang Thermal Power Co., Ltd., had hourly data exceeding the standard.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection said that it had instructed local environmental protection departments to verify immediately and took measures such as ordering the suspension of production and rectification and warnings to the five enterprises.

Tianjin inspection found 600 acres of "garbage village"

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, at 10 a.m. on April 4, the inspection team led by Zhao Yingmin arrived in Tianjin and immediately went straight to the scene to conduct inspections. "As soon as the train the inspection team took entered Tianjin, they found many fires; some construction sites were still working; the pollution at the garbage dump was shocking, and the "three-no" enterprises were in production." The Ministry of Environmental Protection disclosed that hundreds of workshops for recycling waste plastics, waste electrical appliances, waste oil barrels and oil cans, as well as small furniture and small machinery companies, were gathered in Liujia Wharf Village, Beichen District, Tianjin, and surrounding areas.

When the inspection team walked into this "garbage village" covering an area of about 600 acres, they found that chemical waste piled up like a hill on both sides of the road, thousands of black plastic bags and yellow thick raw materials oozing out, and mosquitoes flew out of the plastic bags from time to time. The inspection team also found that a small workshop producing exterior wall insulation boards was in full swing. A simple equipment that looked like a small stove next to it emitted a pungent smell that made it impossible for people to get close to the furnace. A worker occasionally used a shovel to stir the foamed plastic that had been processed at high temperature.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection introduced that other problems found in this inspection include the inadequate implementation of emergency response plans for heavy pollution weather in some cities; the inaction or slow action of some local governments; and the serious over-limit situation of heavy diesel vehicles and oil products.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection said that it had fed back the problems found in the inspection to the local governments as soon as possible, and ordered the local governments to rectify them immediately and feedback the rectification results within a time limit.

Those with the highest cumulative concentration ranking will be named and reported

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, from March 16 to April 1, through the analysis of the cumulative concentration of atmospheric pollution in key grids in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding areas, the highest pollution levels are in Yongshun Town, Tongzhou District, Beijing; Sanlitun Street, Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province; Zhangjiazhuang Town, Gaocheng City, Shijiazhuang City; Dahe Town, Luquan City, Shijiazhuang City; Wuyao Township, Xinshi District, Baoding City; Nandayuan Township, Nanshi District, Baoding City; Kaiping Town, Kaiping District, Tangshan; Ping'an Street, Changqing County, Jinan City, Shandong Province; Dangjia Street, Shizhong District, Jinan City; Guxian Township, Tangyin County, Anyang City, Henan Province, and other 10 towns (streets) in 10 districts (cities and counties).

The Ministry of Environmental Protection stated that it will name and report the counties (districts) and towns where the grids with the highest cumulative pollution concentration are located, and conduct supervision and inspection on the strengthening of control in relevant places in a timely manner.

Beijing, April 4

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