BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua)-During the first round of central environmental protection inspectors, what were the problems that the inspectors accepted and transferred more than 100,000 cases of people’s letters and visits? What are the characteristics? In this regard, Liu Changgen, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Inspector’s Office, responded that the first category is the "small things" of environmental pollution around the masses; Then there are some regional, watershed and other environmental pollution problems involving public interests; There is also a small part involving interest disputes, or "peer reporting".
This morning, the Ministry of Environmental Protection held a regular press conference in December 2017. At the press conference, a reporter asked: During the first round of inspections, various inspection teams accepted and transferred more than 100,000 cases of people’s letters and visits, which promoted the resolution of a large number of outstanding environmental problems. What are the problems with these more than 100,000 mass reports? What are the characteristics? Why can’t some problems be solved for a long time, but the Central Inspector Group can do it right away?
Liu Changgen said that the distribution of 104,000 mass reports transferred by inspectors in the first round shows that the number of reports in the eastern region is higher than that in the central region, and that in the central region is higher than that in the western region. This is the average, and each province has low and high. However, there is a feature that the northeast region is relatively high, and the number of reports in the three northeastern provinces is not only higher than the average level, but also higher than the eastern level.
According to Liu Changgen, second, from the relevant pollution factors involved in the report, air pollution accounts for about 41%, water accounts for about 17%, and ecological damage problems account for 7.5%, which is divided by pollution factors.
One is the "trivial matter" of environmental pollution around the masses.Such reports account for the highest proportion, accounting for about 65% of the total. It mainly involves "small" pollution such as cooking fume, entertainment noise, dust from construction site, domestic sewage, garbage and small workshop processing around the masses, and a considerable part of it is the messy environment and mixed factories and houses gathered in the urban-rural fringe during the rapid development of urbanization.
Liu Changgen said that such reports seem to be "trivial matters", but they are related to the people’s daily lives and are "major events" for the people involved. They need to be taken seriously and resolved effectively.
Then there are some regional, watershed and other environmental pollution problems involving public interests.Such as water pollution, ecological damage, pollution around factories and mines, etc., accounting for about 27% of the total. With the promotion of environmental protection inspectors in batches, the public’s enthusiasm for participating in environmental protection is increasing day by day, and the number of such letters and visits shows an obvious growth trend.
Liu Changgen said that such letters and visits often reflect some major environmental problems, which are not easy to solve in a short time. It is necessary to make scientific plans, formulate plans, speed up the progress of governance and settlement, and strive to form a benign interaction with the public. For such problems, the inspector group will generally take spot checks to verify the situation, and important issues will be included in the inspector’s report and the transfer of files.
There are also some letters and visits related to the neighborhood effect.About 5%. Although this kind of letters and visits account for a small proportion, they are often accompanied by conflicts of interest and public opinion speculation, and their social exposure is high, which is also a problem that inspectors and local party committees and governments need to carefully judge and handle.
Liu Changgen pointed out that in addition, there is a small part involving interest disputes, or "peer reporting", accounting for about 3%.