China News Service, November 15th. The Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team reported today on the environmental protection inspection of Heilongjiang, Henan and Jiangsu provinces. There are problems with the implementation of environmental protection work arrangements, the promotion is not strong enough, and some areas have prominent ecological and environmental problems, and the masses have strong reactions. Among them, the illegal and irregular development and construction of nature reserves in Heilongjiang Province are serious. Harbin has serious air pollution in winter and heavy pollution weather occurs frequently; a large number of abandoned mines in Henan Province have not been timely implemented for environmental restoration and governance; Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province still illegally builds many high-emission projects, and the entry rate of more than 6,300 chemical production enterprises in the province is only about 30%.

The illegal and irregular development and construction of nature reserves in Heilongjiang Province are serious

The second central environmental protection inspection team pointed out that there are prominent environmental problems in some areas and regions in Heilongjiang Province, and there is still a clear gap with the central requirements and the expectations of the masses. The main problems are:

First, there is a phenomenon of lowering standards and relaxing requirements in work arrangements. The Heilongjiang Provincial Water Pollution Prevention and Control Work Plan has lowered the national requirement of "by the end of 2020, the sewage treatment rates of counties and cities will reach about 85% and 95% respectively" to "about 80% and 90% respectively". The Heilongjiang Provincial Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (2016-2018) postponed the installation of desulfurization facilities for sintering machines and pellet production equipment of steel enterprises from 2017 as stipulated by the state to 2018. The Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan has not been fully implemented. Since October 2013, 3,031 small coal-fired boilers with a capacity of 10 tons of steam per hour or less have been newly registered in the province; among the 316 coal-fired power plants in operation in the province, 274 have not completed the transformation of pollution control facilities, making it difficult to meet the standards stably. Since 2014, there has been no annual assessment of the work of relevant provincial departments in accordance with the provisions of the Implementation Rules of the Heilongjiang Provincial Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan, and no accountability has been implemented for areas that failed to complete the control tasks in 2015 and whose air quality deteriorated.

At the same time, the environmental protection pressure in some cities and prefectures has not been transmitted enough. The key environmental protection tasks in Qitaihe, Shuangyashan and other cities have been slow to advance and the problems are prominent. However, the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee did not conduct special research on ecological and environmental protection work from 2013 to 2015. In conversations with cadres, some cadres reflected that the dual responsibility of environmental protection in the province has not been fully implemented, and there are problems such as the failure to fulfill and implement the supervision responsibilities of departments in the management of nature reserves, the elimination of yellow-label vehicles and small boilers, and the prohibition of straw burning.

Second, the problem of illegal development and construction in nature reserves is serious. Duerbert County, Daqing City, falsely claimed that the wetland was existing arable land, reported to the superiors to implement a development project in Zhalong National Nature Reserve, and obtained approval, resulting in the destruction of more than 10,000 acres of wetlands in the reserve. Since 2012, the 856 Farm and Xingkai Lake Farm of the Mudanjiang Administration of the Provincial Agricultural Reclamation Bureau have illegally reclaimed arable land in the Xingkai Lake National Nature Reserve, causing the destruction of more than 2,500 mu of grassland; the farms (pastures) under the Jiansanjiang Administration and the Qiqihar Administration have implemented 11 comprehensive development projects in the Naoli River National Nature Reserve and the Wuyur River National Nature Reserve without the approval of the relevant departments.

In 2015, the Zhaoyuan County Water Affairs Bureau of Daqing City approved the "Zhaoyuan County Songhua River Main Stream River Channel Sand Mining Management Plan (2015-2018)", which identified 9 mining areas with a total area of more than 4,000 mu, all of which are located in the Zhaoyuan Riverside Wetland Nature Reserve; from 2011 to 2014, the relevant departments of Zhaoyuan County issued sand mining licenses and collected management fees in violation of regulations, resulting in rampant illegal sand mining in the riverside wetland reserve and serious damage to the river. In addition, since 2012, four new sand mining sites have been illegally built in the core area of the Raohe Northeast Black Bee National Nature Reserve; the Hongqiling Farm of the Hongxinglong Administration has illegally carried out tourism facility construction and tourism business activities in the buffer zone of the Naolihe National Nature Reserve.

Third, Harbin's environmental governance work has not been promoted effectively. In recent years, Harbin has suffered from severe winter air pollution and frequent heavy pollution weather, which has seriously affected the production and life of the people. The inspection found that 9 of the 16 coal-fired power plants in the city have long exceeded emission standards; 309 of the 455 coal-fired boilers with a capacity of more than 10 tons of steam per hour have not completed the transformation of pollution control facilities. The elimination of coal-fired boilers is not true. In 2015, 48 of the 165 small coal-fired boilers reported to have been eliminated in Nangang and Xiangfang districts were not actually eliminated.

After flowing through Xiangfang and Daowai districts of Harbin, the water quality of the Ash River deteriorated significantly, becoming the only Class V water body among the first-level tributaries of the Songhua River. In 2015, the average concentrations of chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen and total phosphorus in the section entering the Songhua River estuary increased by 8.8%, 12.4% and 5.2% respectively compared with 2013. The livestock and poultry breeding industry along the coast is not managed in order, domestic garbage is dumped at will, and small enterprises such as waste plastic processing are seriously polluting. Nearly 10,000 tons of domestic sewage is discharged directly into the river every day. As of the end of 2015, there were still 4 counties (cities) in Harbin that had not completed and put into operation the harmless treatment projects of garbage, and more than 1,200 tons of domestic garbage could not be effectively treated every day. Harbin Xiangyang Landfill and Shuangqi Environmental Protection Resources Utilization Co., Ltd. had problems such as the illegal discharge of leachate and illegal storage of fly ash from garbage incineration.

Fourth, the environmental pollution in some areas was serious, and the masses reacted strongly. The harmless treatment rate of domestic waste in Heilongjiang Province is low. At present, there are still more than 280 temporary garbage dumps in the province, with a total of more than 93 million tons of garbage stored, which seriously pollutes the surrounding environment. Hegang City produces more than 1,000 tons of domestic waste every day, all of which are buried in abandoned mines and sand mining pits around the city, and the public has strong reactions. The pollution problem of Zhaolanxin River is prominent. In 2015, the average chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen concentrations of the section where the river enters Hulan River were 86.4 mg/L and 11.0 mg/L respectively, which exceeded the surface water Class V standard by 1.2 times and 4.5 times. The water body is seriously polluted, and some parts are black and smelly. A large number of supporting boilers in the wood processing enterprise group in Yangming District, Mudanjiang City have a prominent problem of emitting black smoke; two 3.3-meter ramming coke ovens of Yifeng City Gas Co., Ltd. have not been eliminated as required, and have been illegally produced for a long time, causing serious environmental pollution. More than 100,000 tons of sludge from the sewage treatment plant in the central urban area of Qiqihar City are stored in the flood-carrying area of Nenjiang River, posing a serious threat to the safety of the Nenjiang River water environment. The average PM10 concentration in Mudanjiang, Hegang, Suihua and Heihe rose in 2015 compared with 2013, with Suihua and Heihe increasing by 13% and 32% respectively.

A large number of abandoned mines in Henan have not been promptly restored

The Fifth Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team pointed out that although environmental protection work in Henan Province has been actively promoted, due to the large population of the province and the historical stage of accelerated industrialization and urbanization, the development mode is extensive, and the environmental protection situation in the province is still very severe, and the masses have strong reactions. The main problems are:

First, the implementation of environmental protection is not strong enough. In the conversation with cadres, most comrades reflected that many cadres in Henan Province have errors and deviations in their understanding, such as sacrificing the environment in exchange for growth in the short term is inevitable, and serious air pollution is mainly affected by external conditions such as terrain, precipitation, and wind. In 2015, in the provincial environmental protection responsibility target assessment, Zhengzhou City's assessment result was not completed, but in the economic and social development target assessment, Zhengzhou City's assessment result was excellent. Due to misunderstandings, the pressure of environmental protection work has not been fully transmitted and the implementation has not been strong enough. In 2015, the average PM10 concentration in the province was 135 ¦Ìg/m3, and the average PM2.5 concentration was 80 ¦Ìg/m3. The concentrations of both ranked third and first respectively among the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China. In the first half of 2016, the concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 in the province were 144 ¦Ìg/m3 and 77 ¦Ìg/m3 respectively, both ranking second in China. The pollution problem of some rivers is prominent. Compared with 2013, the pollution level of 5 of the 16 key small watersheds included in the province's monitoring in 2015 increased significantly; among the 94 monitoring sections of the 49 rivers included in the national and provincial monitoring, the pollution level of 24 sections of 14 rivers increased significantly.

Second, the problem of inaction and slow action is more prominent. Henan Province's quality inspection department registered 2,713 coal-fired boilers with a capacity of 10 tons of steam per hour or less from 2014 to 2015, and some of the boilers were installed in urban built-up areas, violating the requirements of the National Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan. In 2015, more than 75% of the diesel supplied in the province was ordinary diesel, resulting in a large amount of ordinary diesel that did not meet the National IV standard being used as vehicle diesel. The deadline for completing the oil and gas recovery and treatment work in the province has been repeatedly delayed, and as of the time of the inspection, nearly half of the tasks had not been completed. In October 2014, Yongcheng Minyuan Special Steel illegally built a 1,080 cubic meter blast furnace and a 60-ton converter, and they were completed and put into production in 2015; the relevant departments of Anyang City illegally identified two 60-square-meter sintering machines of Huixin Special Steel as one 111-square-meter sintering machine; Luoyang Luogang Group's 36-square-meter ring sintering machine should have been eliminated in 2011, but it is still in production; and the outdated cement mills of Xinxiang Jinma Building Materials and other companies have not been eliminated. The work of mine environmental governance lags behind. Since 2010, only about 200 million yuan of environmental restoration deposits have been used in the province's coal mines, and about 2.8 billion yuan has been deposited in the accounts. A large number of abandoned mines have not been timely implemented for environmental restoration. In addition, in order to respond to environmental protection inspections, relevant grassroots units in Shangqiu City have adopted simple and extensive practices, which have produced adverse social impacts.

Third, the environmental situation in some areas is very serious. Among the 74 key cities in China, Zhengzhou's air quality has dropped from the 10th from the bottom in 2013 to the third from the bottom in the first half of 2016, becoming one of the most polluted provincial capitals in China. Due to the overflow and direct discharge of a large amount of domestic sewage, the water environment quality of the city has continued to deteriorate. Since 2013, some pollution indicators in the monitoring sections of Jialu River and Shuangli River have shown an upward trend. In recent years, Zhengzhou's large-scale demolition and construction has produced a large amount of construction waste that is randomly piled up in natural gullies around the city and suburban counties. Hundreds of thousands of tons of sludge produced by sewage treatment are randomly piled up in gravel pits around the city, and environmental hazards are prominent.

Puyang City's PM10 concentration continued to rise from 2013 to the first half of 2016, and the atmospheric environment situation was very serious. Since 2014, the water quality of the city's Majia River has continued to deteriorate, and the water quality of the Jinti River has long been inferior to Class V. However, under such circumstances, the city's water pollution control work was not strict and realistic, and four projects, including the expansion project of the Taiqian County Industrial Cluster Wastewater Treatment Plant, which had already been built, were still reported to be included in the 2014 or 2015 Henan Province River Basin Management or Clear Water Project Plan. The city also basically completed the Henan Fengli Petrochemical's annual production of 3 million tons of oil refining project through split approval.

In 2015, the PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in Xinxiang City increased by 16.2% and 16.0% year-on-year, making it one of the cities with the most serious air pollution in Henan Province. The construction of supporting pipe networks and pump stations for the Jiatun sewage treatment plant in the city lagged behind, and the effluent still exceeded the standard for a long time after it was completed and put into operation; although the sewage interception pipe network in the Xinxiang section of the Wei River has been built, due to insufficient treatment capacity, 40,000 to 50,000 tons of sewage are still discharged into the river every day, causing serious pollution and continued deterioration of the Wei River. In 2015, the chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus in the Huangfu section of the Wei River increased by 10.3%, 79.7% and 97.8% respectively compared with 2013, and the public was dissatisfied.

Fourth, the ecological damage in some areas is relatively serious. In the Sanmenxia section of the Yellow River Wetland Reserve, many enterprises have carried out unordered mining, and many mountains in the reserve are incomplete. A large amount of waste residue is randomly piled up along the hillsides around the river, destroying or occupying more than 3,300 acres of the reserve area, causing serious ecological damage. The problem of illegal sand mining in the Luoyang, Jiaozuo and Zhengzhou sections of the Yellow River Wetland Reserve is also very prominent. The river management departments of the three places have handled sand mining procedures for relevant enterprises without the consent of the reserve management department.

The Greenland International Conference Center project was approved in violation of regulations in the second-level drinking water source protection zone of Jiangang Reservoir in Zhengzhou. The project covers an area of about 30 hectares and started construction in March 2016. Xiaonanhai Reservoir and Zhangwu Reservoir in Anyang City belong to the quasi-protected drinking water source. Since 2012, the number of cage aquaculture has increased year by year, and the water quality has been reduced from Class II to Class V. The first and second-level drinking water source protection zones such as Luhun Reservoir in Luoyang City, Heigangkou in Kaifeng City, Penglou in Zhongyuan Oilfield in Puyang, and Lihe River in Luohe also have problems such as aquaculture or illegal construction.

Fifth, some prominent environmental problems have been strongly reflected by the public. The water quality of some river basins has deteriorated significantly. The concentrations of major pollutants in the Yinghe River in Luohe City, Weihe River and Tanghe River in Hebi City, and Balihe River in Pingdingshan City have all increased significantly in 2015 compared with 2013. The stench problem of urban rivers such as Kaifeng Huiji River, Xinyang Heinigou and Xinshen River, and Nanyang Meixi River is prominent. The sludge treatment plant in Luohe City has frequent malfunctions, and a large amount of sludge has been stored in the open air for a long time without anti-seepage measures. Large amounts of leachate have been stored for a long time in enterprises such as Hebi Caizhuang Waste Treatment Co., Ltd. and Jiaozuo Qinyang City Landfill, posing prominent environmental risks. The odor of Nanyang Municipal Domestic Waste Landfill is obvious, and the public has been complaining constantly. In the Songxian section of the Yihe River in Luoyang, the northern mountainous area of Xinxiang, Zhengzhou Xingyang and Dengfeng, the Beishan area of Jiaozuo, Nanyang Wolong District, Pingdingshan Lushan and other places, a large number of sand mining, stone mining or lime production enterprises have extensive management and operation in the mining, processing, stacking, transportation and other links, causing prominent ecological damage and serious dust pollution, and the public has strong reactions.

Jiangsu chemical enterprises have low entry rates and Xuzhou has illegal high-emission projects

The third central environmental protection inspection team pointed out that the contradiction between the rapid economic and social development of Jiangsu Province and the carrying capacity of resources and environment is still prominent, some structural and regional environmental problems have not been fundamentally solved, and the environmental risks are relatively large. The main problems are:

First, the implementation of the national environmental protection decision-making and deployment is still not in place. The air pollution prevention and control target responsibility letter signed between the state and Jiangsu Province requires that Jiangsu Province must achieve negative growth in total coal consumption by the end of 2017, but in the provincial air pollution prevention and control work assessment in 2014 and 2015, the total coal consumption control requirements were not included in the assessment scope of the prefecture-level cities. The deployment of the Yangtze River protection has not been promoted effectively. In 2015, among the 41 main tributaries of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, the proportion of Class V sections was 20.5%, an increase of 6.9 percentage points and 11.4 percentage points compared with 2014 and 2013 respectively. The water quality of the Nanjing Control Gate and the Gecun Bridge section in Zhenjiang has deteriorated significantly. In October 2013, the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Resolving the Contradiction of Serious Overcapacity", which clearly stated that new steel production capacity should be strictly controlled. However, Jiangsu Province has not effectively controlled new steel production capacity since 2013, and enterprises such as Yancheng Lianxin Steel, Xuzhou Iron Mine Casting, Suining Ningfeng Steel, and Guanxing Roller have illegally built or continued to build steel production capacity.

Jiangsu Province still has a problem of weak assessment in implementing the party and government's joint responsibility for environmental protection and one post with two responsibilities. In October 2015, Jiangsu Province clearly stated that environmental quality "can only get better, not worse" as the responsibility red line of local governments at all levels. However, when assessing the responsibility of ecological civilization construction in various places in 2015, there were no clear measures to deal with the problem that the water quality of Qiqiao Weng in Nanjing and Zhaotun section in Kunshan had increased instead of decreased; there were no clear requirements for Wuxi and Taizhou to violate the ecological red line regulations and occupy green land or build illegally. In the Taihu Lake governance target responsibility assessment from 2013 to 2015, no rectification requirements were put forward for the responsible units and personnel of 11 rivers such as Zhihu Port and Wujin Port whose total phosphorus and total nitrogen did not reach the national governance target.

Second, the environmental risk problem has not been effectively solved. There are more than 6,300 chemical production enterprises of various types in the province, and the rate of entry into the park is only about 30%. In some areas, the rate of entry into the park is even only about 10%. The inspection found that there are 125 enterprises in the chemical concentration area of the Lingang Industrial Zone in Guanyun County, all of which are pesticide, dye, and intermediate projects that are clearly prohibited, restricted or strictly controlled by the planning environmental impact assessment. The coastal chemical park in Yancheng City violated the planning environmental impact assessment requirements and introduced a large number of dye, medicine, pesticide and other projects in the second phase of construction. Among them, the weekly acid project of Santai Chemical, which was filed by the Yancheng Economic and Information Commission in 2015, is still using the iron powder reduction process that has been explicitly eliminated by the state. The illegal discharge of pollutants by enterprises in the port industrial zone of Guanyun County and the chemical industrial park of Guannan County in Lianyungang City is prominent, and the surrounding surface water is seriously polluted. The chemical oxygen demand of Qiwei Gate and Dazui Dagou exceeds the surface water Class IV standard by about 50 times and 8 times respectively.

There are 30 centralized drinking water sources in the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River. Twelve of them were spot-checked on site, and 8 of them had environmental violations. There are chemical docks, aquaculture or ship repair and building bases prohibited by law in the first or second protection zones of drinking water sources such as Changjiang Yaogang in Wuxi City, Langshan Water Plant in Nantong City, Zhengrunzhou and Jiangxinzhou Danyang in Zhenjiang City, etc., and the frequent transportation of dangerous chemicals along the way has caused prominent environmental risks. After the implementation of the "Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in Tongyu River, Jiangsu Province", more than 70 large-scale livestock and poultry farms were still illegally built in the first-level protection zone of water sources in Yancheng, Lianyungang, Taizhou, Nantong and Yangzhou, and some of them even had no pollution control facilities, bringing pollution risks. The province's hazardous waste disposal capacity is insufficient, and problems such as overdue storage, illegal transfer and illegal landfill of hazardous waste are prominent. In addition, some polluted sites in Jiangsu Province pose great environmental risks and need to improve control capabilities.

Third, ecological and environmental problems are prominent in some regions. The situation of air pollution prevention and control in Xuzhou is severe, but many high-emission projects are still illegally built. Especially after the implementation of the new "Environmental Protection Law", companies such as Zhongtai Energy Technology, Longshan Coking, and Dongxing Energy still illegally built coking projects, which had a significant impact on the local atmospheric environment. The municipal and county governments of Xuzhou have not taken effective measures to deal with them in a timely manner. Yancheng City and relevant counties and districts have long allowed illegal development activities in the Yancheng National Rare Bird Nature Reserve. Large-scale collection of mud snails has long existed in the core area of the reserve. The land area of the buffer zone is 622,000 mu, of which 471,000 mu has been developed for aquaculture and agricultural planting. Pollution problems in some industrial parks in Lianyungang City are very prominent, and people have been complaining about them.

In 2015, 10 of the 15 main rivers entering the Taihu Lake Basin had total nitrogen and 9 total phosphorus levels that did not meet the State Council's "12th Five-Year Plan" water quality target for pollution prevention and control in the Taihu Lake Basin. Livestock and poultry breeding in the basin is seriously polluted. Among the more than 9,000 large-scale livestock and poultry breeding enterprises, about one-third have no pollution control facilities. Among them, there are 161 large-scale livestock and poultry farms in the Taihu Lake Level 1 Protection Zone, and about 80% have no pollution control facilities. The "Overall Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Water Environment in the Taihu Lake Basin" requires the completion of the control project on the west bank of the Wangyu River by the end of 2015, but it has not yet started, which seriously restricts the effectiveness of the Zoumatang drainage project that is matched with it. In addition, illegal sand mining in Hongze Lake and Luoma Lake continues despite repeated bans, violating the ecological red line area control requirements of Jiangsu Province, posing a threat to the East Route Project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, drinking water source safety, and the lake water ecological environment.

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