The water quality at the mouth of the Fenhe River in Shanxi Province reached excellent standards for the first time

On October 31, the Propaganda Department of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Information Office of the Shanxi Province Government organized and held the ninth press conference in the series on the theme of "Promoting High-Quality Development and Deepening All-round Transformation." The reporter learned from the press conference that in recent years, the ecological environment department of Shanxi Province has concentrated its efforts on the battle against pollution, and the quality of the province's ecological environment has been further improved.

Wang Shuaihong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Shanxi Province, said that in recent years, Shanxi Province has carried out in-depth air pollution control in key cities, comprehensively promoted comprehensive environmental improvement in key industrial parks, and implemented joint prevention and control of air pollution in the Fenhe Valley. Since the beginning of this year, the province's comprehensive environmental air quality index has improved by 3.0% year-on-year, the largest improvement in the past three years. PM_2.5The concentration dropped to 35 micrograms/cubic meter. Strengthen the coordination of "three waters" of water resources, water environment, and water ecology, and vigorously promote the ecological protection project of "one clear water entering the Yellow River". The proportion of water bodies with excellent surface water environment in the province reached 87.2%, exceeding the national target of 15.9 percentage points, especially The proportion of excellent water bodies in the Fenhe River Basin increased by 9.5 percentage points year-on-year, and the water quality of the section at the mouth of the Fenhe River reached excellent standards for the first time. Blue skies and white clouds have become the norm in Sanjin, and green waters and green mountains can be seen everywhere.

Strengthening carbon emission control in key areas is the main path to promote the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Sun Wei, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Shanxi Province, said that this year a total of 96 key emission units in the province participated in carbon market transactions, with a cumulative transaction volume of 54.4233 million tons and a transaction volume of 3.209 billion yuan. Advocate green and low-carbon consumption, launch the "Sanjin Green Life" carbon inclusive promotion platform, and achieve positive results. More than 6.3 million residents in the province have participated in carbon emission reduction, with a cumulative carbon reduction of 197,000 tons.

Beautiful Shanxi is an important part of Beautiful China. Wang Shuaihong said that Beautiful Shanxi at least includes the "three beauties", namely,"ecological beauty, development beauty, and shared beauty." "Ecological beauty" is an important symbol and core content of beautiful Shanxi, that is, the sky is bluer, the mountains are greener, the water is clearer, the air is fresher, the urban and rural areas are more livable, the environment is more beautiful, and people's satisfaction is getting higher and higher;"Development Beauty" is the intrinsic requirement and endogenous driving force of beautiful Shanxi. It is to transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, proactively layout future industries, develop new productive forces according to local conditions, and achieve green and low-carbon cyclic development;"Shared beauty" is the key support and ultimate goal of Beautiful Shanxi. It means that all sectors of society actively participate in the construction of ecological civilization, the modernization level of ecological and environmental governance capabilities continues to improve, and everyone becomes a protector, builder, and beneficiary of the ecological environment.

In recent years, Shanxi Province has made every effort to promote underground filling of coal gangue and comprehensive utilization of coal-based solid waste resources, implemented the "Waste Cleanup Action" in the Yellow River Basin, and carried out the construction of a "waste-free city". The prevention and control of solid waste pollution has been further strengthened.

Fan Zhanchun, the Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervisor (Deputy Director Level) of Shanxi Province, introduced that the "Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Solid Waste Pollution in Shanxi Province" issued in July this year systematically deployed the fight against solid waste pollution. In the next step, we will promote source reduction, strengthen source control of coal-based solid waste, encourage underground filling of coal gangue, strengthen the research and development and promotion of new combustion technologies in coal-fired power plants; promote comprehensive utilization, accelerate the construction of comprehensive solid waste utilization bases and industrial clusters, and continue to Strengthen the diversified utilization of coal-based solid waste and continuously expand the channels for large-scale consumption of coal-based solid waste; Strengthen standardized management, continue to carry out inspection and rectification of industrial solid waste storage yards, thoroughly implement full-process supervision of industrial solid waste, strengthen daily supervision of coal-based solid waste production, utilization and disposal enterprises, and continue to carry out in-depth "waste cleanup operations" in the Yellow River Basin.

In recent years, the ecological environment department of Shanxi Province has firmly grasped the requirement of "focusing on protection and governance" and concentrated on the ecological protection project of "a clear water entering the Yellow River" and the comprehensive management of the ecological environment of counties flowing through the main stream of the Yellow River. All tasks are steadily advanced in time sequence.

Sun Wei introduced that the "One Clear Water Entering the Yellow River" ecological protection project coordinates the integrated implementation of pollution control, water transfer, dredging, humidification enhancement, and green banks. With the key projects as the starting point, it carries out systematic management on the main stream of the Fenhe River and its main tributary rivers and shoreline to promote the goal of "increasing water volume, improving water quality, and beautiful scenery". So far, 277 of the 285 projects have been started, with an operating rate of 97.2%; 138 projects have been completed, with a completion rate of 48.4%; and the completed investment is 50.25 billion yuan. Since its launch in June last year, through more than one year of project implementation, an additional 318,000 cubic meters of sewage treatment capacity per day, an additional 336 acres of artificial wetland area, 913.9 kilometers of river management have been completed, and 2.45 million cubic meters of groundwater have been extracted. The comprehensive management of the ecological environment of the counties flowing through the main stream of the Yellow River focuses on the province's 4 cities and 19 counties along the Yellow River and the 16 major tributaries entering the Yellow River, and coordinates five key projects including "river cleaning, pollution reduction, road management, clean production, and green expansion". Attack actions, organize a pull-net investigation of various pollution sources within 1 kilometer of the coastline on the west side of the main stream of the Yellow River and 300 meters of the coastline of the main tributaries entering the Yellow River, and promote direct discharge of domestic sewage, external discharge of corporate sewage, and illegal discharge of breeding wastewater. Prominent environmental problems such as illegal accumulation of sand and coal storage have been effectively rectified.