Environmental groups say the central environmental watchdog is a spiritual revolution
In the eyes of companies always trying to exploit the green space, environmental inspectors are hindering economic development. In the eyes of third-party environmental groups, environmental inspectors "are not only a simple 'accountability storm', but also a profound 'soul revolution'."
As it happens, the ministry of environmental protection and environmental protection organizations held a press conference together today.
"Schaeffler 300 billion loss events", director-general of the department of environmental protection eia Cui Shugong public response: "render some directly under the name of environmental protection, environmental protection policy factors increase product prices, this is a kind of disturbing the market behavior." He pointed out that some illegal polluters do not even invest in the environment.
Mr Schaffler played down the government's warnings
The schaeffler incident has continued to ferment since September 18.
First the schaeffler group greater China CEO Zhang Yilin to Shanghai via letter committee, jiading district, the pudong new area government and the government for help, hope for the upstream steel wire cold drawing forging supplier Shanghai world dragon metal wire drawing co., LTD., lenient environmental matters, indulgence for three months, in order to avoid caused by needle breakage for a bigger loss.
In emergency messages, Zhang Yilin said, due to environmental factors, the Shanghai pudong new area of rivers sand town government for our world since September 10, 2017 the implementation of the "electricity production, demolition related production equipment" decision. Over the three months, the hole in needle rollers is estimated to exceed 1,500 tonnes, Mr. Zhang said, theoretically reducing production by more than 3 million vehicles and costing the equivalent of 300 billion yuan.
The truth is, the last year, central environmental supervision during the Shanghai inspectors found that world dragon company pickling phosphating process is not only no formalities for examination and approval of eia, and this project has been listed as "obsolete closed class" by the government. As a result, Shanghai authorities asked companies to stop production in December and again in March. On September 4, Shanghai chuansha new town again informed Shanghai jielong metal wire drawing co., LTD in writing to stop production immediately.
But Shanghai jielong metal wire drawing co., LTD., played down the city's warnings. Not only that, but zhang has publicly turned to the Shanghai municipal government for help, citing the loss of 300 billion yuan.
Schaeffler's blackmail of the government was bitterly denounced.
It is the norm to regulate polluters in accordance with law
In environmental protection at a regular press conference held today, Cui Shugong said that in the past, there are some illegal polluters, slash environmental costs, would not even put into environmental protection, good money after bad COINS, serious damage to the market competition order, hinders the upgrading of the industrial structure.
'strict environmental law enforcement has solved some environmental problems around ordinary people and improved the quality of the environment,' he said. On the other hand, it has also promoted economic restructuring and accelerated the transformation of old and new drivers of growth. "It has become the norm to regulate polluters in accordance with the law, and all enterprises should adapt to this normal situation and develop the habit of consciously complying with environmental protection laws and regulations." "Said cui.
As for whether the environmental protection inspector has affected the economic and social development, has it caused the rise of raw materials? "From January to August, the value added by industries above scale increased by 6.7% from a year earlier, a significant increase over the same period last year," said cui. Between January and August, 9.74 million new urban jobs were created, an increase of 260,000 over the previous year. The registered urban unemployment rate at the end of the second quarter was 3.95 percent, the lowest since 2008. In the 15 provinces under the central environmental protection supervision this year, the value added by industrial enterprises above the scale increased by 0.95 percent year-on-year, cui said. The 16 provinces that did not operate increased by 0.54% from a year earlier.
According to his introduction, this year in August 1 - in addition to the cement output fell 0.5%, crude steel, non-ferrous metals, coke, flat glass, cardboard production increased by 5.7% and 4.2% respectively compared to the same, 4.0%, 3.0%, 4.0%, industrial products are not yield to conduct environmental supervision of 15 provinces, crude steel, non-ferrous metals, coke, flat glass, paper and other production growth is still higher than the national level.
Cui pointed out that China's economic and social development has continued to maintain steady progress, and the trend of steady and positive development has not changed. Environmental inspectors have not affected production of major industrial products, nor have they been a direct driver of higher prices. He believes that the change in product prices is mainly caused by the relationship between supply and demand, which depends on the overall situation of current economic development, resource endowment and market demand.
Central environmental inspector achieves "milestone"
Environmental group clean air today in innovation center and the environmental protection propaganda and education center of the China environment air quality management assessment report (2017) "(hereinafter referred to as the" report ") in the first two group of the central environmental supervision is evaluated.
They believe that environmental supervision from the "qi" to "DuZheng", to strengthen the environmental protection "party and government with responsibility" and "a pair of responsibilities", at the same time pay more attention to public participation and information disclosure, reveals the governance in our country environment problem determination.
The report noted that compared with the past, the central environmental protection inspector has implemented the law with great intensity, wide scope and long time, which is a milestone in China's environmental law enforcement history.
In the environmental protection organization, started in 2016 the central environmental protection supervision and past compared to the environmental supervision of environmental protection organization, "' check 'and' was' different, reflecting the depth is different, had a central environmental protection supervision can be directly and to be inspector of the province (city, area) party head direct dialogue." According to the report, "local party committees and governments and their relevant departments do not act or act in a disorderly manner" is a must for the central environmental protection inspector in every province (city or district).
According to the report, the first two rounds of central inspectors strengthened supervision. "environmental inspectors' supervision of government is the root cause of the problem. According to the report, the central environmental watchdog "is not only a simple 'accountability storm', but also a profound 'soul revolution'."
In the case of schaeffler, as environmental groups say, central environmental inspectors are not simply a storm of accountability.