A Summary of Ecological Civilization Construction and Environmental Protection in Yulin City

Taking time as the axis, we will witness the changes in Yulin's ecology, making mountains and rivers green, blue skies, and clear rivers and lakes become the norm, and making cities, towns, and villages each have their own beauty and share the same beauty... Strolling along the banks of the Yuxi River, with blue sky above your head, and fertile soil on your feet. Enjoy the clear water nearby, Yulin has become a beautiful home that 3.6 million children on the Loess Plateau are proud of.

Green development presses the "fast forward button", and ecological civilization construction enters the "fast lane". Since 2023, the city's ecological and environmental system has deeply implemented Xi Jinping's thoughts on ecological civilization, conscientiously implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the work requirements of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, and created an ecological civilization highland to lead high-quality development and promote the city's economic and social development to continuously achieve new achievements.

In today's Yulin, the sky is blue, the earth is green, and the rivers are clear and the lakes are the most beautiful ecological symbols. The concept that lucid waters and green mountains are invaluable assets has been deeply engraved into the blood gene of the Loess Plateau.

Today, Yulin's ecological environment quality continues to improve at a high level, and the construction of beautiful Yulin has taken solid steps.

An "ecological answer sheet" with beautiful mountains and clear waters, blue skies and clean land

Win the battle to defend the blue sky towards the dream of clear skies and shining stars; fight the battle to defend clear waters towards the dream of green waters and fish flying on the shallow bottom; fight the battle to defend pure land towards the dream of a cleaner earth and a more beautiful scenery...

In the golden autumn of October, the trees in the Yuxi River Ecological Corridor are lush and the autumn colors are strong. There are more than 130 species of flowers and trees of various types, and the population of birds and aquatic animals continues to grow, forming a relatively complete wetland ecological system.

In recent years, relying on two national-level pilots of "Regional Reclaimed Water Recycling" and "Comprehensive Management and Sustainable Development of River Basin Water Environment", the comprehensive water environment management project in Yuyang and Mizhi sections of the Wuding River has been continuously implemented. The proportion of surface water in the city reached or was better than Class III water bodies by 93.75%, exceeding the task by 6.25 percentage points. The overall water quality improvement rate of 16 nationally controlled key sections ranked 10th among the 339 prefecture-level cities in the country, and the improvement rate twice entered the top 10 in the country within three years; the proportion of Class V water bodies was 0%, ranking first in the province.

The ecological changes in the Yuxi River are a vivid epitome of the effectiveness of the city's ecological civilization construction.

The city's ecological environment system takes improving the quality of the ecological environment as the core, and takes the iron-fisted pollution control action as the starting point. It makes up for shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, and solves problems. It continues to fight the tough battle against pollution, and has delivered a beautiful scenery, clear waters, blue skies and clean land."Ecological answer sheet"--

The sky is bluer. From January to September 2024, the comprehensive air quality index of Yulin's central Urban area was 3.63, a year-on-year improvement of 0.3%; the number of excellent days was 221, an increase of 10 days year-on-year; the average concentration of PM2.5 was 25 micrograms/cubic meter, ranking first in the province.

The water is clearer. From January to September 2024, the water quality compliance rate of the city's 16 nationally controlled sections will reach 100%, and the excellent proportion will reach 93.75%. Among them, Huangfuchuan Bridge, Kuye River Daliuta, Tuwei River Gaojiachuan, Wuding River Mushoutai, Dangjiagou, Wangjiahe 6 sections have reached Class II surface water quality, which is better than the assessment requirements. The water quality compliance rate of centralized drinking water sources in 18 cities and towns has remained stable at 100%.

The land is cleaner. From January to September 2024, a total of 112 key construction land surveys have been completed on soil pollution status. The city's 161 key soil pollution supervision units and 3 key groundwater pollution supervision units were dynamically updated, and self-monitoring was carried out to effectively fulfill legal obligations. Priority will be given to environmental risks management and control of the city's 18 closed and relocated enterprise plots. The city's soil environment remained generally stable.

A comprehensive and full-process "governance answer sheet"

A good ecological environment is the most universally beneficial welfare for people's livelihood.

In order to exchange for the blue sky, the Yulin City Ecological Environment Bureau signed a letter of responsibility with the party and government leaders in various counties and cities, and introduced a series of targeted measures to strengthen the control of spring dust and volatile organic compounds. In 2023, the "physical examination" will conduct a full year to investigate 108 blue carbon-related enterprises and urge 759 rectification problems. 302 construction sites, 63 gas stations, 103 auto repair factories, and 2919 catering enterprises have been inspected in depth, and a total of 326 rectification problems have been investigated and dealt with.

In order to protect the long-term flow of clear water, the Yulin section of the main stream of the Yellow River is generally maintained at Class II water quality, and the Wuding River is generally maintained at Class II water quality. Organized and carried out actions such as the Yellow River's "Waste Cleanup Action", the investigation of sewage outlets into the river, and the investigation of hidden dangers during flood seasons. A total of 696 sewage outlets of various types into the river were identified, exceeding the 80% traceability monitoring and 30% of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. The rectification task was successfully selected as the first batch of "resident cities in the country for the joint research on ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin".

In order to allow the people to eat and live with peace of mind, and strengthen the prevention and control of the source of soil and groundwater pollution, 161 key regulatory units are urged to steadily promote self-monitoring, and 34 key regulatory units are assisted and guided to carry out hidden danger investigations and "look back". Carry out in-depth investigation of hidden dangers of groundwater pollution in 8 chemical parks, and the city's soil environment remains generally stable.

In recent years, the increasingly dense ecological civilization institutional system has become a reliable guarantee for the construction of ecological civilization--

We conscientiously implemented the province's special action deployment requirements for air pollution control and formulated the "Special Action Plan for Air Pollution Control in Yulin City (2023-2027)", issued the" Yulin City's 30 Critical Action Plans for Ecological and Environmental Protection in 2023 "," Yulin City's Management Measures to Support the Comprehensive Utilization of Bulk Industrial Solid Wastes (Trial)"," Yulin City's Comprehensive Utilization Award and Supplementary Application Guidelines "and other institutional measures, compiled the" Yulin City Rural Domestic Sewage Treatment Five-Year Special Plan "and the" Yulin City Rural Domestic Sewage Resource Utilization Technical Guidelines ", The three-year action for rural sewage management was launched to clarify the basic responsibilities of departments at all levels in strengthening ecological and environmental protection and ecological civilization construction, create a city-wide "game of chess" work pattern for ecological and environmental protection, and ensure that ecological and environmental protection work has laws to follow and implement in accordance with the law.

Inspectors are a "physical examination sheet" for ecological and environmental protection work and a "good recipe" for achieving high-quality ecological development in Yulin.

The city's ecological environment system adheres to the law enforcement supervision concept of "not disturbing anything, responding to requests, supervising in accordance with the law, assisting and guiding, supporting each other, and achieving win-win results", continues to carry out law enforcement training and competition, and strengthens file review. From January to May 2024, the city dispatched more than 4000 law enforcement personnel, filed 193 cases, fined more than 25 million yuan, 6 cases of seizure and seizure, 1 case of production restriction and production suspension, 2 cases of administrative detentions, and 2 cases of judicial transfer. The city's 405 enterprises will be included in the hierarchical management system, and "red, yellow and green" classified management will be implemented. Green code enterprises will not disturb and arrive quickly if there is anything to happen, yellow code enterprises will be provided assistance, guidance and timely reminders, and red code enterprises will be kept a close eye on them., urge rectification, and strive to improve the efficiency of environmental law enforcement and supervision.

Comprehensively consolidate the ecological and environmental protection "the party and government have the same responsibilities, one post has two responsibilities", coordinate and promote the rectification of feedback issues from the central and provincial environmental protection inspectors, and steadily advance the handling of the second round of rectification cases from central environmental protection inspectors, and the ecological environment around a group of people. Outstanding problems have been effectively resolved.

An ecologically friendly, green and low-carbon "development answer sheet"

"Yulin is currently at a critical stage of completely, accurately and comprehensively implementing the new development concept and promoting high-quality development. It is undertaking the mission of building a national energy revolution innovation demonstration zone and the country's first batch of carbon peak pilot cities." "We must resolutely fight the battle against pollution and accelerate the construction of a demonstration city for ecological civilization in the new era."

Turning the deployment requirements of the Yulin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government into practical actions and endogenous driving force for high-quality modernization, the ever-changing Tuocheng is presenting a picture of ecological civilization in the new era that keeps pace with the times.

The Yulin City Ecological Environment Bureau has given full play to the role of "leading, optimizing, and pushing" environmental protection, issued the "Annual Implementation Plan for the Promotion of High-Quality Projects", fully applying the results of "three lines and one single" to park planning, industrial development and construction project site selection. During the entire process, we have established a guarantee ledger for the environmental impact assessment approval elements of key projects at the four levels of ministries, cities and counties, and implemented measures such as special class services, AB posts, pre-examination of red and blue seals, and bundled approval. In 2023, a total of 305 construction projects, Analysis and comparison were carried out on 10 planned Kuangqu and 14 industrial parks. A total of 24 key projects (plans) such as China Coal Phase II were coordinated and the environmental impact assessment was approved by the central and provincial ecological and environmental departments, and the extension of China Coal Mixed Salt Resource Comprehensive Utilization Project was introduced. The completed funds reached 620 million yuan. The Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau has been rated as the city's "Advanced Collective in Investment Promotion" and "Advanced Collective in Optimizing the Business Environment and Social Credit System Construction" for two consecutive years.

Actively promote the construction of the industrial chain for comprehensive utilization of bulk solid waste, clarify the tasks and measures of counties, cities and relevant departments annually, formulate and issue technical specifications for ecological restoration of saline-alkali land and desertified land with coal-based solid waste, and base construction and filling. Four local standards including the technical specifications for highway subgrade construction have identified the second batch of 22 solid waste comprehensive utilization demonstration projects and the third batch of 13 key solid waste control enterprises.

Signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shaanxi Coal Group Building Materials Technology Co., Ltd. for the construction of the comprehensive utilization industrial chain of bulk solid waste, went to Nanjing, Ulanqab and other places to inspect the comprehensive utilization technologies and projects of gasification slag and magnesium slag, and promoted the Fugu and Yushen Management Committees to sign contracts with Dashi Environment Company and Keli Keying Company for comprehensive utilization projects of magnesium slag and gasification slag. In 2023, a total of 7 solid waste comprehensive utilization demonstration projects such as coal gangue filling in Caojiatan Coal Mine will be completed, with an additional utilization capacity of 6.5 million tons/year; drawing on the experience of Baotou and Ordos, 7 pilot projects will be carried out in Yuyang, Shenmu and Fugu. Industrial solid waste collaborative mine ecological restoration and management pilot, the comprehensive utilization rate of newly added bulk industrial solid waste will increase from 30% at the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 48% at the end of 2023. At the same time, we will strengthen hazardous waste management, organize 494 enterprise waste-producing units in the city to carry out industrial solid waste declarations and registrations, complete the filing and management plan of 948 hazardous waste units, and strictly enforce the cross-provincial transfer of hazardous waste. In 2023, a total of 48 hazardous waste cases will be handled across provinces. Transfer approval, guiding 4 business units to complete changes in hazardous waste business licenses.

We will make every effort to undertake environmental impact assessment approvals, establish a liaison specialist system to assist enterprises, promptly coordinate and solve difficulties and blockages in the project promotion process, and further reduce the average approval time limit by 33%. Solidly promote pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and requested the municipal government to issue the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Work on Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in Yulin City during the 14th Five-Year Plan". In 2023, 90 emission reduction projects will be implemented, 393 emission discharge permits will be issued, and 34 companies will be guided to complete the annual carbon emission accounting report and emission monitoring plan, 6 companies will be urged to complete the payment of quotas for the second compliance cycle of national carbon emission rights, and four emission reduction targets will be successfully completed.

Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", the city has reduced chemical oxygen demand by 8639 tons, ammonia nitrogen by 1360 tons, nitrogen oxides by 11588 tons, and volatile organic compounds by 8980 tons. The remaining 886 tons of nitrogen oxide removal tasks have been exceeded. The "14th Five-Year Plan" task is expected to complete all nitrogen oxide tasks assigned by the "14th Five-Year Plan" ahead of schedule this year. Since the beginning of this year, we have continued to tap the potential for emission reduction and promoted the implementation of 60 key emission reduction projects with binding indicators. Emission source statistics, industrial sources, and centralized data review are strictly reported according to time nodes. Project implementation is advancing in an orderly manner.

Deeply advance comprehensive and strict governance of the party. Adhere to the principle of "party building red" and lead "ecological green", party building and business work hard and deeply integrate, and continue to polish the "red flag flying." Green Shield Yulin "party building brand. On January 24, 2024, the Yulin City Ecological Environment Bureau was jointly awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Collective of Ecological Environment System" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. On behalf of the northwest region, it said at the commendation meeting,"Adhere to overall thinking and lead the green waters and green mountains with brand party building; Adhere to systematic thinking and work together to build green waters and green mountains; adhere to the rule of law thinking and protect green waters and green mountains with strict rule of law; Adhere to dialectical thinking and exchange gold and silver in exchange for green waters and green mountains "reported Yulin's experience and achievements in ecological and environmental protection.

Only by integrating knowledge and action can we achieve stability and long-term development. From concept sublimation to system construction to practical testing, ecological civilization construction and environmental protection are extensively and profoundly changing the economic and social development of Yulin.

Embarking on a new journey, under the strong leadership of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the Yulin Ecological Environment System will bravely shoulder the mission and forge ahead, constantly polish the bright "Yulin business card" of ecological civilization construction, and demonstrate the creation of a national ecology. The "Yulin responsibility" of the civilized highland will hand over satisfactory "green answers" to the party and the people.