Green and low-carbon paint the most beautiful background for Ningxia's high-quality development
In the early morning of January 17, overlooking the Yuehai Bay Central Business District of Yinchuan City, it was like an oil painting, showing a unique charm. Photo by reporter Ma Nan
The report of the 2023 two sessions says so
Adhere to the priority of ecology, and strive to promote green, low-carbon and high-quality development to achieve new breakthroughs. Firmly establish the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, comprehensively strengthen ecological protection and restoration, coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, water conservation, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, thoroughly implement the comprehensive conservation strategy, and really grasp the ecology, grasp the ecology, and do a good job in the ecology, so as to guard the lifeline of Ningxia's ecological environment.
In 2023, we will do this
"Adhering to the road of green development is not only an inevitable requirement for our region to solve the problem of ecological fragility, but also an inevitable choice to give full play to the advantages of resources. On January 18, the person in charge of the Autonomous Region Department of Ecology and Environment said that last year, our region continued to promote at a high level, and the functional departments of ecology and environment, development and reform, industry and information technology, and water conservancy strengthened coordination and linkage, worked hard, and resolutely launched the "four waters and four determinations" initiative battle in the whole region, the battle to defend the blue sky, clear water and pure land, and the overall battle of green and low-carbon development.
New achievements have been made in the green and low-carbon transformation
Last year, our district strengthened the service guarantee of environmental impact assessment of construction projects, completed the four-level linkage approval and filing of 5,405, and effectively helped the promotion of a number of major projects such as the flood control project at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain. The approval of the "two high" projects decreased by 50% year-on-year, Yinchuan City and Guyuan City were selected as national regional pilot cities for reclaimed water recycling, Wuzhong City was rated as a national low-carbon city pilot "excellent" city, and Ningxia Desert Greening and Sand Industry Development Foundation's "Practice Base for Coordinated Development from Green Expansion to Green Expansion and Low Carbon" was rated as a national green and low-carbon typical case.
New achievements have been made in pollution prevention and control
In 2023, our district will continue to fight the four landmark battles of blue sky, clear water, pure land, solid waste and new pollutant treatment, implement 243 air pollution prevention and control projects, and the PM_2.5 concentration reduction ranks among the top in the country, and 946 sewage outlets into the Yellow River will be remediated, and the Yuhe River will be rated as an excellent case of beautiful rivers and lakes in the country, and the first in the country to release a list of chemical substances for priority assessment at the provincial level, with the safe utilization rate of polluted cultivated land reaching 100% and the rural domestic sewage treatment rate reaching 35.65% It is at the leading level among the five provinces and regions in Northwest China.
The allocation of environmental resource elements has been newly optimized
In 2023, our district will further promote the reform of pollutant discharge rights and carbon emission rights, improve and improve the carbon emission rights reform system, deepen the reform of the compensation system for ecological and environmental damages, and build an environmental information disclosure system in accordance with the law. Improve and improve the ecological investment mechanism, mobilize all forces to participate in ecological construction, the ecological environment-oriented development project in the eastern area of Yinchuan City and the comprehensive ecological management and supporting industry development project in the Jinshan area of Helan Mountain (eastern foothills) have been successfully included in the national ecological and environmental protection financial support project database, with a total investment of 5.231 billion yuan.
The capacity of environmental governance has been improved
In 2023, our region will further improve the system of laws and regulations covering various environmental elements, and take the lead in establishing a horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism with equal rights and responsibilities between upstream and downstream, and joint construction and sharing among the provinces along the Yellow River. Ningxia's first Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection Theme Publicity and Practice Month, "Beautiful China, I am an Actor" and other practical activities were successfully held to enhance the awareness of ecological civilization in the whole society.
New progress has been made in integrating into the national carbon market
In 2023, our region will further improve the participation of enterprises in the carbon market by strengthening national policy interpretation training, accelerating the establishment of supporting policies and systems for the reform of carbon emission rights in the autonomous region, formulating a carbon emission management manual for enterprises, and carrying out on-site assistance for carbon emission data quality assurance. Compared with the first compliance cycle of the national carbon market, the number of participating companies increased by 7, the trading volume increased by about 550,000 tons, and the turnover increased by 78.7%.
Highlights look back
On September 25, 2023, the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region held the Fifth Plenary Session of the 13th Autonomous Region, which was the first time in the history of Ningxia to study and deploy the construction of ecological civilization in the form of a plenary session, and the plenary session deliberated and approved the "1+4" series of documents on the construction of ecological civilization in Ningxia, drawing a new blueprint for the construction of ecological civilization in Ningxia on a new journey and pointing out the direction for the construction of a beautiful Ningxia in the new era.
On December 10, 2023, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council officially issued a notice that for the first time in the history of Ningxia, it has entered the excellent level of the national pollution prevention and control battle, achieving the best results since the assessment and achieving a historic breakthrough.
In 2023, the annual average concentration of PM_2.5 in our district will be reduced by 1 microgram/cubic meter compared with the previous year, ranking among the top in the country, the proportion of heavily polluted days will decrease by 70% year-on-year, and the emission reduction of key projects of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides will complete the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period three years ahead of schedule.
In 2023, a total of 24 key emitting enterprises in our district will participate in the second compliance cycle of the national carbon market, and the cumulative turnover of allowances in the national carbon emission trading market will be 9.1144 million tons, with a turnover of 613 million yuan.
In 2023, Yanchi County was awarded the Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone, Minning Town was awarded the "Lucid Water and Lush Mountains are Invaluable Assets" Practice and Innovation Base, Liupan Mountain Ecological Function Zone was selected as the National Integrated Protection and Restoration Project of Mountains, Waters, Forests, Fields, Lakes, Grasslands and Sands, Yinchuan Wine Industry Cleaner Production Audit Innovation Pilot Project was selected as the second batch of national cleaner production audit innovation pilot projects, and the Helan Eastern Foothill Mine Ecological Restoration Project was listed as the first batch of typical cases of national landscape projects.
