China News Service, Kunming, September 28 (Reporter Han Shuainan) On September 28, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment held a special press conference on "Environmental Safety, We Are Taking Action - Listening to People's Voices, Preventing Risks, and Protecting Homes". As of September this year, the on-time completion rate of complaints and reports within the scope of responsibility of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment has reached 100%; the province's key environmental risk areas have achieved a four-hour emergency material support circle; the Qujing Huashan Chemical Industry Park Environmental Emergency Three-level Prevention and Control System Pilot Project successfully passed national acceptance in August.
Since the beginning of this year, noise pollution, air pollution, and water pollution have ranked among the top three types of pollution reported in the province's environmental complaints. Problems such as nighttime construction noise disturbing people, catering fumes disturbing people, and direct discharge of domestic and breeding wastewater have been relatively concentrated.
As of September, the province has received a total of 3,139 complaints and reports within the scope of responsibility of the ecological environment department, of which 2,708 have been settled and 431 are being handled. The rate of due complaints being settled on schedule is 100%. The Yunnan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment has established a closed-loop handling mechanism for the entire chain of acceptance, research and judgment, transfer, supervision, spot checks, and return visits. Complex matters are coordinated by multiple departments to promote the transformation of complaint handling from passive acceptance to active management and source prevention and control.
The province issued and implemented the "Yunnan Province Eco-environmental Complaints and Reports Key Cases Linked Disposal Mechanism (Trial)" to build a complete closed loop of collection and acceptance, analysis and judgment, double-handling, assistance and disposal, feedback and return visits, and cancellation and filing, and innovatively implemented the "double-handling" model for key cases.
At the same time, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment has established a closed loop of "complaints and reports - data research and judgment - governance improvement". It collects data from the National Ecological Environment Complaints and Reports Management Platform and the Yunnan Provincial 12345 Government Affairs Hotline to identify prominent environmental issues from the perspective of people's demands, providing reference for the province's ecological civilization construction and the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan", and also providing data support for early warning of hidden risks and targeted supervision.
Environmental risk enterprises in Yunnan Province have established a list of major, major and general risks at different levels, clarifying key elements such as risk substances, pollution sources, sensitive protection targets, emergency supplies and equipment one by one. For areas along rivers and geological disaster-prone areas, special accounts for key enterprises have been established, and enterprises along major plateau lakes and outbound rivers have been listed as top priorities for implementation of key supervision.
Emergency response is achieved by "fighting according to the map". The "one river, one policy, one map" emergency model for sudden water pollution in the basin is extending to the fields of tailings ponds, chemical industry parks, and hazardous chemicals transportation, forming an environmental emergency preparedness system with four linked maps of "rivers, reservoirs, parks, and roads."
On September 3, Yunnan Province organized a "one reservoir, one policy, one map" and government-enterprise linkage emergency environmental incident emergency drill in the Dayingjiang River Basin in Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture. It simulated earthquakes superimposed with heavy rainfall, causing the leakage of heavy metal wastewater from tailings ponds, and the damage and leakage of long-distance oil and gas pipelines, forming a compound water pollution incident. Through actual combat simulation, it comprehensively tested the government-enterprise linkage and multi-department collaborative processing capabilities, effectively improving the level of regional environmental risk prevention and control.
In terms of material reserves, starting from 2022, the provincial level will coordinate special funds for ecological and environmental protection, and build seven provincial-level environmental emergency material warehouses in Qujing, Wenshan, Zhaotong, Dali, Kunming, Xishuangbanna, and Honghe, and build a reserve network of "divided watershed fortification, divided area coordination, and hierarchical coverage". At present, the province's key environmental risk areas have implemented a four-hour material support circle, reversing the past situation of dispersed reserves and lagging dispatch.
It was revealed at the meeting that in the next step, Yunnan will pay close attention to the investigation and rectification of hidden dangers, complete the full coverage verification of key risk enterprises before the end of the year, continue to supervise the supervision of 77 unclosed loop hidden dangers, and inspect and cancel the accounts one by one. At the same time, we will continue to optimize the closed-loop handling of the entire chain of complaints and reports, continue to upgrade environmental emergency response capabilities, improve the government-enterprise joint emergency material reserve system, and organize and carry out practical training exercises on a regular basis.
