Guangdong: PM2.5 dropped to 22 micrograms last year, reaching the second stage of the WHO standard

Guangdong: PM2.5 dropped to 22 micrograms last year, reaching the second stage of the WHO standard https://whatchinareads.com/article/?uid=9cf912faf31111ec9893c7030b3aab5e

2022-06-23: [Article Link]  On 23 June, the Guangdong Provincial Government Information Office held a series of press conferences on the achievements of economic and social development in Guangdong — a special event on the strengthening of ecological civilization and on the development of ecological civilization in Guangdong. The Director-General of the Department of Eco-Environmental Affairs, Rusulu, said that since the Party's eighteenth birthday, Guangdong had insisted on putting ecological civilization and environmental protection high on the agenda. Over the past five years, the provincial councils and the provincial governments have invested nearly 750 billion yuan to cover the historical arrears in order to combat pollution and to fight the offensive with extraordinary force, and between 2018 and 2020 alone, the provincial fiscal co-financing was 72.2 billion yuan. Priority is given to ecological protection in the implementation of the major national strategy for the development of the Bay of Australasia region in Hong Kong, and pollution prevention and warfare is an important element in the planning of the deployment of the "1+1+9" province. The provincial council and the provincial government head each act as the first director and director of the provincial council's eco-environment committee and as the first commander and chief of the provincial pollution control and offensive command. Along with long-term economic leadership and steady population growth, the state of the province's ecological quality and improvement has continued to be among the highest in the country, with significant improvements in the quality of the water environment, with the total deterioration of the pre-existing nine inferior category V countries, the virtual elimination of black and stinky water bodies in 527 cities, and the transformation of the river and river from the pollution paradigm to the cure model; and the improvement of 89.9 per cent in the quality of water quality in 149 surface countries in 2021, with a 90.2 per cent improvement in the area of water quality on the coast. The city of Pearl Triangle 9 is fully integrated into the national “cities without waste”, with a provincial hazardous waste disposal capacity of 8.5 million tonnes/year, doubling from 2017 to meet the province's needs for safe disposal of hazardous waste. The construction of the “Four Pillars” of the eco-civilization system, the formation of a green space system supported by a “three-line one” system, an eco-economic system based on industrial ecology and eco-industrialization, a system of targeted responsibility centred on improving the quality of the ecological environment, and a system of environmental governance based on innovations in the reform of the eco-civilization system. In the future, Guangdong has focused on building a beautiful Chinese Guangdong model of life in harmony with nature, allowing Guangdong Qingshan to be present, Xiao Shui Shui Qing, and new air. The Deputy Director of the Provincial Development Reform Commission and the Director of the Provincial Energy Authority, Oh Do-seung, have said that Guangdong has made a strong contribution to the development of eco-civilization and that green low-carbon cycles have yielded positive results. The provincial councils and provincial governments have set up provincial carbon peaks, carbon neutrality and work leadership groups and provincial eco-environmental protection committees to coordinate efforts to combat carbon peaks, carbon neutrality and pollution. Qualitative production of the 14th Five-Year Plan on Building Ecocivilization in Guangdong Province, with the launch of the Implementation Opinion on Accelerating the Establishment of a Sound Green Low-Carbon Cycle Economic Development System. Promoting industry to the top of the global value chain has led to the creation of a “chain-long system” covering 20 strategic industrial clusters, the introduction of cleaner production, the addition of 549,000 kilowatts of offshore wind and light-voltage units throughout the province in 2021, and the promotion of more than 270,000 new energy vehicles. In order to promote green development throughout the province, it is necessary to further promote energy conservation and carbon mitigation in the priority areas and to resolutely curb the blind development of high-energy-intensive and low-emission projects. Strengthen key core technologies around energy conservation, eco-carbon sinks, resource recycling, carbon capture and storage in the focal areas, and scale up the development of offshore wind power through the development of non-fossil energy sources. Accelerating the development of low-carbon transport systems, accelerating the implementation of green low-carbon national action and deepening green life creation initiatives. The Deputy Director General of the Housing and Urban and Rural Development Department of the Province, Liu Ghenhui, stated that in recent years, remarkable results have been achieved through the unprecedented efforts of Guangdong to complete the short silos of the sewerage network and to strengthen the weakness of the sewage treatment facilities. With the unprecedented speed and scale of construction of the network, 74,000 km of municipal sewage networks are now being built across the province. 9,000,000 tonnes of municipal sewage treatment have been added since 2018, and 2,947,000 tonnes of sewage treatment are now available in provincial cities, the first in a row in the country for many years. Guangdong has taken the lead throughout the country in conducting an assessment of the efficiency of municipal wastewater treatment in order to promote the construction, promotion and effective implementation of a two-way shift and double-up. Next, Guangdong will continue to promote the improvement of municipal wastewater treatment efficiency. During the “14th Five-Yar Plan” period, it is expected that over 7,500 km of new municipal sewerage networks will be built and more than 4.9 million tonnes/day of additional municipal sewage treatment facilities will be built, leading to more than 80 billion yuan in infrastructure investment. (c) Expedite the improvement of the “plant network” management mechanism for urban drainage systems and the formation of specialized management teams, and promote the establishment and regular updating of a geographic information system for municipal wastewater collection and treatment facilities. The establishment of a clean-life sewage network is gradually being developed for periodic screening. / / / / / Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Director of the Department of Ocean Affairs, Chujio, said that “building a 10,000 acres of mangrove demonstration area with coastal biodiversity protection and disaster prevention and mitigation functions” had been included in this year's provincial government's report on its work. The area of mangroves in Guangdong is 159,600 acres, the largest in the country, distributed in 14 coastal municipalities across the province and with a variety of about 30 species, and Guangdong is planning to create a 10,000 acres of mangrove demonstration areas, creating national business cards and building important windows for carbon neutrality and international cooperation. Six initiatives were proposed for the overall conservation of mangroves, which will fine-tune the construction and rehabilitation of 8,000 hectares of mangroves to municipalities and counties by 2025. The strictest regulation of landfills is implemented, with the exception of major national projects, which are prohibited, and the establishment of a special chapter for the protection of mangrove wetlands, which provides the legal basis for mangrove conservation. Improvement of incentives for the rehabilitation of mangroves, with a total of 0.5 acres of new land for construction in one acre of mangroves; 17 projects for the construction of mangroves, with a total area of more than 700 hectares for new mangroves, have been implemented, with a total investment of about 660 million yuan. To promote the construction of 10,000 acres of mangrove demonstration areas in five areas: Xuxi, Xuxi, Xiang Jianqiang, Yangjie, Jiang Menthai Shan, Huixiang, and Huixiang, Huixiang. (The original title is Huixiang!)