Use the light of the rule of law to shine on the beautiful background of the capital Beijing's ecological civilization construction needs results from the rule of law
"We must practice policies and regulations in our daily work and life to protect Beijing's blue sky and white clouds. Recently, at the site of the Constitution Publicity Week organized by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment - the first batch of "rule of law publicity and education demonstration bases" in Beijing, the Beijing Environmental Education Base and Environmental Protection Facilities Open Unit, and the Beijing Motor Vehicle Emission Management Affairs Center, Yi Kun, deputy director of the Bureau's Regulations and Standards Division, introduced to reporters the legal popularization activities that are being organized.
"I swear to be loyal to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, to uphold the authority of the Constitution, and to perform statutory duties. On the occasion of the 10th National Constitution Day, Xu Xiaoyun, deputy director of the Ecology and Environment Bureau of Tongzhou District, Beijing, led the staff to make a solemn commitment to the national flag.
At the same time, the Xicheng District Ecological Environment Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade and the Rongfeng South Community of Guangwai Street jointly held a training meeting on the publicity and implementation of catering enterprises in accordance with the law in the district, and the Miyun District Ecological Environment Bureau issued the "Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China" and "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law of the People's Republic of China" and other laws and regulations publicity materials to the citizens in the Legal Park.
The Constitution Publicity Week is a grand and solemn legal popularization activity, and Beijing's ecological civilization construction is carried out in accordance with the law at all times, 365 days a year. Under the sunshine of the rule of law, Beijing has successively cultivated seven national ecological civilization construction demonstration zones including Yanqing, Miyun, Mentougou, Haidian, Huairou, Pinggu and Chaoyang, and seven national two-mountain bases in Yanqing, Mentougou, Miyun, Huairou, Pinggu, Fengtai and Changping. At present, Beijing is following the path of modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and moving towards building a world-class harmonious and livable city.
Strong legislation: Rise to the challenge and break the routine, and promote high-quality development with high-standard legislation and high-level protection
Adhere to planning and guidance. The overall urban planning of Beijing puts forward the general requirements of "insisting on intensive and efficient production space, insisting on the livability and moderation of living space, and insisting on the beautiful mountains and rivers of ecological space", delineating 1.66 million mu of cultivated land protection space, about 1.5 million mu of permanent basic farmland, about 4,517 square kilometers of ecological protection red line, and 2,320 square kilometers of urban development boundary, defining the spatial bottom line of Beijing's urban development in the future, realizing the continuous increase of ecological control areas, and the rational optimization of concentrated construction areas. The number of restricted construction areas has been reduced accordingly, which is in line with the guiding requirements of Beijing's urban master plan to achieve the integration of two lines by 2050.
Be goal-oriented. The "14th Five-Year Plan for Ecological and Environmental Protection in Beijing" proposes to develop a lower carbon, cleaner air, cleaner water, safer soil, and more livable ecology, with the ecological protection red line accounting for no less than 26.1% of the city's area, and the ecological environment quality index steadily improving.
Adhere to the system first. As early as 1998, Beijing took the lead in formulating and promulgating the "Emission Standards for Exhaust Pollutants for Light Vehicles", which is equivalent to Euro I and Euro II standards, and then continuously improved the standard construction, forming rules and regulations including air, water, soil, solid waste, environmental noise and vibration, radioactivity and electromagnetic radiation. Thirteen of the 41 key projects in the "Beijing 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Local Ecological and Environmental Standards" have been completed, and 111 local ecological and environmental standards are currently in effect. At the same time, it has also established a local environmental and economic policy system that includes subsidies, incentives, prices, finance and other means. It has formed the most complete and most stringent local ecological environment standard system in the country, and has vigorously promoted the overall improvement of ecological environment quality.
In recent years, Beijing has made positive achievements in the construction of ecological civilization in ecological conservation areas by formulating systems, building mechanisms, strengthening support, optimizing ecology, and promoting development, and gathering the joint efforts of all parties. The ecological conservation area has gradually become the capital's ecological "big barrier", "big oxygen bar", "big garden" and "big Beijing suburbs", which undertakes the important task of ensuring the ecological security of the capital and has also become an indispensable and important base for realizing the value of the capital's ecological products.
The "Green Beijing" development strategy formulated and implemented by Beijing, especially the targeted promotion of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, has significantly improved the quality of the ecological environment and significantly enhanced the city's sustainable development capacity while reducing carbon emissions. The functional construction of the "four centers" in the core area is also speeding up in an all-round way, the level of the "four services" has been significantly improved, the high-quality development has been solidly promoted, the urban ecological environment governance has achieved remarkable results, the people's sense of gain, happiness and security has been continuously enhanced, and the comprehensive strength and international influence have been significantly improved.
In the past ten years, Beijing's carbon dioxide emissions per 10,000 yuan of GDP have dropped by nearly 50%, and the total carbon emissions have dropped significantly, and the overall carbon emissions are in a stable plateau. At the same time, a historic breakthrough has been made in the improvement of ecological environment quality, with the annual average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) dropping by 66.5%. A large number of ecological hot words such as "Beijing Miracle", "Beijing Experience", "The Fastest Ice", "The Wind of Zhangbei Lights Up Beijing", "The Forbidden City Noon Gate Star Track" and other ecological hot words have been widely recited, and "New Era, New Blueprint, New Beijing" are shining into reality in all directions.
Strict law enforcement: Make full use of "addition, subtraction, multiplication and division" to improve the efficiency of comprehensive law enforcement
In 2017, Beijing established an environmental protection police and in 2020, a comprehensive ecological and environmental administrative law enforcement corps was established, establishing a law enforcement army that can fight tough battles, dare to fight tough battles, and be good at fighting tough battles.
Frequent addition, "physical examination" law enforcement, accurate detection of problems. Not long ago, Liu Jiannan, a member of the law enforcement team, received a clue on the comprehensive law enforcement platform of the corps, "the Municipal Ecological Environment Monitoring Center sailed and found that the VOCs value in the area of the Green Valley Automobile Repair Cluster in Haidian District was significantly higher than that of the surrounding area", he immediately carried out inspections in the area and found that the paint mixing room of a certain enterprise was open, and the emissions of 2 forklifts in the factory exceeded the standard. This law enforcement mode of "monitoring and finding abnormalities - law enforcement verification - on-site fixed source + mobile source comprehensive inspection" is the normal law enforcement mode of the Beijing ecological and environmental law enforcement department, which responds quickly, finds accurately and effectively solves it.
Make good use of subtraction, blend leniency and severity, and create a good business environment. Adhere to the combination of leniency and severity, take the lead in the word "strict" for malicious and illegal acts, and do nothing to disturb law-abiding enterprises, so as to make the business environment more warm. Implement dynamic management of the positive list, in accordance with the "Interim Measures for the Management of the Positive List of Ecological and Environmental Supervision and Law Enforcement in Beijing", appropriately tolerate faults, stipulate 19 types of minor exemptions from punishment and 15 types of first violations, and guide enterprises to take the initiative to correct minor violations in a timely manner. In recent years, the city's ecological environment department has handled hundreds of cases of non-punishment.
Make full use of multiplication and technology to effectively improve the efficiency of law enforcement. In recent years, the Beijing Municipal Department of Ecological and Environmental Law Enforcement has actively explored the "smart law enforcement" model, leveraged big data to discover and investigate problems, and strengthened the support of scientific and technological means such as hotspot grids, automatic monitoring, remote sensing, and navigation monitoring.
Skillfully use division, resolve at the source, and effectively solve the problem of disturbing the people. Adhere to the principle that "whoever enforces the law shall popularize the law", explain the law with cases on major typical problems and issues of concern to the people, and guide pollutant discharging units to consciously abide by the law. Pay attention to assistance and services, further promote the rectification of problems, strengthen legal popularization and publicity, smooth channels for communication and consultation, and solve problems at the source. Expose typical cases to deter environmental violations. It not only pays attention to "repairing external skills", but also adheres to "strengthening internal strength", and carries out law enforcement training throughout the year, automatic monitoring and supervision capacity improvement training, etc., to further consolidate the foundation of the city's ecological environment system service-oriented law enforcement capabilities.
Co-protection of the law: the whole society actively participates, co-governs, co-builds and shares a good ecological environment
The "Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that all units and individuals have the obligation to protect the environment; the "Beijing Clean Air Action Plan" proposes to guide the public to practice a green lifestyle in green consumption, green travel, public welfare activities, information disclosure, complaints and reports, and social supervision, etc., and the "Beijing Action Plan for Responding to Climate Change 2023" proposes to organize and carry out low-carbon days, Publicity activities such as Environment Day will promote high-efficiency and low-carbon green products, and guide citizens to actively participate in garbage classification, "CD-ROM action", voluntary tree planting and low-carbon travel in the form of carbon inclusiveness, so as to gradually form a green and low-carbon lifestyle and consumption concept.
The formulation and implementation of a series of policies and regulations have strongly promoted the active participation of more than 21 million citizens, especially in the past five years, the people of the city have actively practiced green lifestyles, consciously reduced pollution emissions, and worked together to form a vivid situation of joining hands to participate in "clean air and cheering for beautiful Beijing", which has become a dazzling "business card" of Beijing. To build a beautiful Beijing with blue sky, green ground and clear water, the general public is not only the beneficiary, but also the participants and contributors. From pollution prevention and control to pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergy, more and more people are deeply involved.
At present, 4 million people have officially registered users of the "MaaS Travel, Green City" green travel carbon inclusive incentive activity, and nearly 300 million citizens have chosen low-carbon travel such as buses, rails, and bicycles, with a cumulative carbon emission reduction of more than 500,000 tons, which has effectively promoted the process of carbon emission reduction in the transportation sector, improved environmental quality, and effectively alleviated traffic congestion.
Since its launch in 2005, the "Capital University Environmental Culture Season" has attracted more than 60 colleges and universities and more than 100,000 college students to participate in the event, sharing green experience and demonstrating green actions through various forms such as environmental debate competitions, environmental graffiti and environmental concerts.
Over the past 20 years, more than 1 million primary and secondary school students in Beijing have participated in the "I Love Mother Earth" Ecological and Environmental Protection Keynote Speech Contest, expounding their thoughts and initiatives on the theme of "green and low-carbon".
The "Hand in Hand with Blue Sky" Environmental Protection Photography Contest has been held for 18 consecutive years, with a large number of photography enthusiasts who are concerned about environmental protection actively participating, and a total of more than 50,000 works have been collected, showing the city, natural features of Beijing, and the positive actions of citizens to invest in environmental protection from different scenes. A simple, moderate, green and low-carbon lifestyle has become a fashion trend in Beijing today.
