Ministry of Ecology and Environment's May regular press conference: Take a look at what was said in this issue

The expansion of the 2018 Environmental Bulletin + is a highlight worthy of attention

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment officially released the "2018 China Ecological Report" today. "Environmental Status Bulletin", this bulletin has three major highlights: first, it is more comprehensive, the cities participating in the atmospheric ranking have been expanded from 74 to 169, the scope of regional assessment has been expanded, water quality assessment content has been added, and nighttime monitoring content of noise has been added; second, Emphasis on practical results, the quality status was released in a brief form in mid-March, and the natural ecological status was updated in a timely manner to release the status of 2018; third, it is more readable, the text volume of the communiqué is greatly reduced, and various charts are greatly increased, presenting it more clearly and intuitively All kinds of information allow the public to "understand" the ecological environment quality status with one picture.

After the marine ecological and environmental protection functions were integrated into the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the "2018 China Marine Ecological Environment Status Bulletin" was released. The bulletin has three main changes: First, the content is integrated, and the original Ministry of Environmental Protection The "Bulletin on the Ecological Environment Quality of Coastal Seas" and the former State Oceanic Administration's "Bulletin on the State of the Marine Environment of China" have been integrated and integrated; secondly, the characteristics are retained, and the actions and measures related to marine environmental protection in the original bulletin of the Ministry of Environmental Protection are retained. The ecological status, environmental status of some functional areas, environmental disaster status, etc. in the bulletin of the State Oceanic Administration; the third is to focus on the key points, focusing on the quality of the marine ecological environment, and deleting the monitoring and evaluation content of marine resources and other aspects.
 

The water environment quality of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is generally better than the average level and full efforts are made to promote ecological environment monitoring work

A total of 943 water environment monitoring stations have been set up in the Yangtze River Economic Belt According to monitoring data, the surface water environmental quality of the Yangtze River Economic Zone is generally better than the national average for each national-controlled surface water section, and is showing an improvement trend. As can be seen from the table below, the water quality of Class I to Class III in the Yangtze River Economic Zone has increased significantly compared with 2018, and the proportion of water inferior to Class V has dropped significantly.

Comparison of water quality conditions in the Yangtze River Economic Zone from January to April 2018 and 2019

Director Bai Qiuyong said that in order to better support the battle to protect and restore the Yangtze River, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment is making every effort to promote the monitoring and early warning of water environment quality in the Yangtze River Basin, build the automatic monitoring capacity of water quality in the Yangtze River Economic Zone, and launch the ecological environment-free monitoring of the main stream of the Yangtze River. Human-machineRemote sensing survey works in three aspects.

The quarterly import of more than 3 million tons of solid waste was approved and issued by the end of June. Import licenses were approved and issued at the end of June

2019 quarterly year-on-year comparison A monthly decrease of 40%, of which the import volume of restricted solid waste exceeded 2.5 million tons. In December last year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and relevant departments adjusted the "Imported Waste Management Catalog" and transferred 8 types of solid waste, including scrap steel, copper scrap and aluminum scrap, from the unrestricted import category to the restricted import category. Starting this year Effective from July 1st.

In order to alleviate the market pressure on traders engaged in solid waste import and processing, in late April 2019, relevant enterprises that have been notified by the provincial ecological environment department and relevant industry associations will start from May You can submit an application to import scrap metal to the local provincial ecological environment department. For applications that meet the licensing conditions, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will speed up the review and approval process and strive to approve and issue the six-month scrap metal import-related licenses before the end of June.

It is urgent to draft regulations on environmental monitoring of new marine ecological functions

The newly established Ministry of Ecology and Environment has added a new marine ecological function Regarding the functions of ecological environment protection and climate change response, regarding the newly transferred functions, Director Bai Qiuyong said that the ecological environment monitoring work will be responsible for unified monitoring and evaluation in accordance with the new functional positioning, and will focus on the "five connections" to unify the new transfer. To summarize the functional monitoring work systematically, it is to strive to achieve the "five realizations", that is, to realize the land and seaCoordinate, realize water and land coordination, realize the integration of multiple networks, realize the integration of heaven and earth, and realize the integration of measurement and calculation.

In order to ensure the accuracy and authenticity of environmental monitoring data and strengthen the supervision of social monitoring agencies, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will study and draft the "Ecological Environment Monitoring Regulations", and through the formulation of regulations, further clarify the various regulations The legal status and role of ecological environment monitoring at all levels shall be protected, and the rights and obligations of various ecological environment monitoring agencies at all levels shall be protected. At the same time, the legal responsibilities of ecological environment monitoring agencies from all walks of life will be further strengthened.

Eliminating the misunderstandings about waste incineration and air pollution, overall coordination is not just talk.

There is a misunderstanding in the market. Incineration plants are being shut down abroad, and a large number of new incineration plants are being built in China, and technologies that have been eliminated from abroad are being introduced to China. Director Bai Qiuyong corrected that, generally speaking, the processes and emission standards adopted by China's waste incineration plants are in line with the standards, and some processes, equipment, and standards have even reached the advanced level. In recent years, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has attached great importance to the standardized regulation of waste incineration plants. In order to promote the monitoring and information disclosure of waste incineration plants, it has implemented "installation, trees, and connections" to promote pollution control. It currently covers more than 350 waste incineration plants across the country. In the past few years, waste incineration plants have generally standardized disposal and emissions and can basically meet emission standards.

In terms of air pollution prevention and control, many people believe that improving air quality in China mainly relies on transferring pollution sources from urban agglomerations to surrounding less developed areas to achieve improvement in air quality in large cities. In some areas, due to various reasons such as pollutant emissions, regional transmission effects and meteorological conditions, the beginning and end of each year are often periods of poor air quality. The quality of my country's atmospheric environment is still in the "meteorologically influenced" stage, and air pollution control is still "climbing up and down". The difficulty, complexity and long-term nature of air quality improvement have not changed. The data has risen and fallen, which is a normal fluctuation. But overall, compared with 2017, the average PM2.5 concentration in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Fenwei Plains dropped by about 11% in 2018, and the proportion of good and good days increased by 1-2 percentage points respectively.

　(Original title: May regular press conference of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: Take a look at what was said in this issue)