To prevent air pollution, Chengdu stops approving high-pollution projects such as steel

"From January to September this year, there were 162 days with good air quality in the central urban area, with a compliance rate of 59.3%." On the morning of October 30, at the 11th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 16th Chengdu Municipal People’s Congress, the Director of Chengdu Environmental Protection Bureau Chen Lin was commissioned by the Municipal People's Government to report on the air pollution prevention and control work in Chengdu in 2014, and showed the report card above. According to this report, Chengdu's air pollution prevention and control work has made significant progress, but the situation is still severe and the future tasks are very arduous.

Significant progress: nearly 60% of the days to reach the standard PM2.5 drop by 16%

The report mentioned that from January to September this year, there were 162 days with good air quality in the central city, with a compliance rate of 59.3%. Compared with the same period in 2013, the number of compliance days increased by 55 days, and the compliance rate increased by 20.1 percentage points. The average concentration of the main pollutant sulfur dioxide decreased by 38.7%, the average concentration of PM10 decreased by 17.7%, and the average concentration of PM2.5 decreased by 16% (reached the provincial government assessment Target requirements), the concentration levels of carbon monoxide and ozone, and the average concentration of nitrogen dioxide are basically the same.

In comparison with the number of pollution days, the number of pollution days in January-September 2014 was 111 days, compared with 166 days in the same period in 2013. Among them, the number of days with serious pollution was only 7 days in January-September 2014, and 12 days in the same period in 2013.

The report pointed out that according to the new environmental air quality standard (AQI index) evaluation, in 2013, the air quality in the central urban area of Chengdu was good (up to the standard) for 132 days, and the good rate was 36.2%. Among the six indicators included in the national assessment, except for the concentration of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ozone that meet the national secondary standards, the concentration of nitrogen dioxide, PM10, and PM2.5 all exceed the standards. In 2013, Chengdu ranked 61st in air quality among 74 key cities across the country.

The report emphasizes that achieving the above-mentioned results is inseparable from the prevention and control of air pollution. In 2014, Chengdu improved its work system in air pollution prevention and control, and established an air pollution prevention and control work leading group headed by the mayor and a heavy pollution weather emergency command headed by the deputy mayor; at the same time, strengthen Source control, strict implementation of the environmental assessment system; total emission reduction, 9,669 yellow-label vehicles transferred out and cancelled, and 59,000 scrapped motor vehicles; strengthened supervision and management, cleared and checked 10,235 illegal pollutants, among which the “three no” enterprises were banned 3282; the basic guarantee has been strengthened and strengthened in terms of funding, scientific research and publicity.

The situation is grim: there is a gap between the expectations of the masses, and the national ranking is still low

The report frankly stated that although preliminary results have been achieved, the current air quality in Chengdu is still far from the requirements of the Provincial Party Committee and the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and the expectations of the broad masses of people. The city’s air pollution prevention and control work still faces many difficulties.

According to the report, due to the geographical and meteorological conditions of the basin, Chengdu’s atmospheric environmental capacity is inherently insufficient; with the rapid economic and social development, the emissions of air pollutants in Chengdu continue to increase; the dusty weather throughout the country and the open burning of straw in surrounding areas in the spring have caused Chengdu 15 Day pollution. All these factors make Chengdu’s ambient air quality still not optimistic. Although the average concentration of sulfur dioxide, PM10, and PM2.5 this year has dropped significantly from the same period last year, Chengdu’s ambient air quality still ranks low among the 74 key cities in the country. The atmospheric environment is still severe.

According to the report, the Ministry of Environmental Protection's "2013 China Environmental Status Bulletin" showed that in 2013, only three of the 74 key cities across the country, Haikou, Zhoushan, and Lhasa, met the new national air quality standard. The air quality compliance rate was only 4.1%. The average number of haze days was 35.9 days, an increase of 18.3 days over 2012 and the most since 1961. Therefore, whether for Chengdu or other cities in China, atmospheric particulate matter pollution represented by PM10 and PM2.5 will be the most important atmospheric environmental problem for a long time. Improving environmental air quality is a long-term and difficult task. Task.

Next year's task: some heavy pollution projects withdraw, no longer approve steel projects

The report introduces the 2015 work plan in a special chapter, expressing that it will strictly implement the "Chengdu Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan", further deepen and implement various air pollution prevention and control measures, and gradually improve the environmental air quality of Chengdu and return to the citizens. A blue sky makes new contributions.

According to the report, Chengdu will strictly enforce environmental access in 2015, and will no longer approve high-polluting projects such as steel, cement, coke, non-ferrous smelting and coal-fired power plants; for existing thermal power, steel, petrochemical, cement, non-ferrous, chemical and other industries and fuels The coal boiler project strictly implements special emission limits for air pollutants. At the same time, by the end of 2015, we will eliminate various earth kilns such as wheel kilns that do not conform to the national industrial policy; strive to achieve the overall withdrawal of the city’s printing and dyeing industry by the end of 2015; all concrete mixing plants that have not passed the governance integration will exit the area within the expressway ring line ; In 2015, the yellow label vehicles registered for operation in suburbs (cities) and counties and the yellow label vehicles registered and operated before 2005 will be eliminated.

In addition, Chengdu will also strengthen air pollution early warning and emergency response, improve ambient air quality monitoring data, pollution weather data exchange and consultation systems, forecast and early warning of imported heavy pollution, and improve the emergency response system for heavy pollution weather. Take extraordinary measures such as limiting production and stopping production to reduce air pollutant emissions; speed up the construction of the second-phase project of the key laboratory for air pollution prevention and control and the air super station, and improve the monitoring and early warning system for heavy pollution weather.