Beautiful Chongqing is heading towards "green"

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out and provided fundamental guidelines for deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system in the new era and new journey and comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. In recent years, Chongqing City has made every effort to focus on key tasks such as high-quality development, the construction of beautiful Chongqing, and the construction of important ecological barriers in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It has comprehensively and continuously deepened innovation in the ecological civilization system, promoted the reshaping of the ecological and environmental governance system, and strived to create a pioneer area for the construction of a beautiful China.

Technology leads innovation, digital ecological environment governance

How long does it take to discover a water pollution problem in Chongqing City? In the past, it might have been a week or more, but now it is within 24 hours. Not only is the time to discover problems greatly shortened, but the efficiency of investigating and handling problems has also been greatly improved.

At the Big Data Application Center of Chongqing City Ecological Environment Bureau, large and small data are clearly displayed on a 20-square-meter high-definition screen, comprehensively displaying the real-time water environment of 120 rivers in Chongqing City. Starting from April 2023, Chongqing City has developed the "Bayu Water Control" application system in accordance with the city's digital reform deployment requirements and in response to the problems of dispersion of pollution control forces and difficulty in water control linkage in water control work, relying on the integrated intelligent public data platform, Chongqing City Ecological Environment Bureau has developed the "Bayu Water Control" application system has achieved a significant improvement in Chongqing City's ability to deal with water pollution incidents. Among them, the time efficiency of discovering water environmental pollution problems, Three "80%" improvements have been achieved in the efficiency of problem research, judgment and traceability and problem handling efficiency.

Lu Li, deputy director of the Water Ecology and Environment Division of the Chongqing City Ecological Environment Bureau, said that the "Bayu Water Control" application system starts from multiple dimensions such as water quality, water resources, water ecology, water pollution, and water supervision, and tailor-made each river. Tailor-made "Digital Water Management Map" has improved the ability of big data analysis and judgment, made the water environment visible, verifiable and analyzable, and provided data basic support for the perception of environmental factors, pollution analysis and accurate traceability.

What is more noteworthy is that Chongqing City continues to deepen and expand the application of "Bayu Water Control" and continuously iteratively upgrades system functions, focusing on three portraits (The city's portraits, river basin portraits, and cross-section portraits) and four key special areas (river sewage outlets, industrial parks, drinking water sources, and rural black and smelly water bodies) will accelerate the construction of an integrated, full-chain comprehensive water control scenario application, enhance the comprehensive and practical capabilities of water control practices in Chongqing City third-level urban operation and governance centers, improve the operating mechanism of comprehensive integration, collaborative and efficient, and closed-loop management, and use digital empowerment to promote water control work to achieve overall intelligent governance.

With the support of science and technology, in 2023, the proportion of excellent water quality in 74 state-controlled sections in Chongqing City will reach 100%, the best level since the "14th Five-Year Plan". Not long ago, the "Bayu Water Control" application system was rated as an excellent application in digital Chongqing construction in 2023, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has promoted the experience of "Bayu Water Control" across the country.

The "Bayu Water Control" application system is actually a microcosm of Chongqing City's construction of a digital ecological environment governance system. In recent years, Chongqing City has comprehensively promoted the construction of a digital platform for ecological and environmental protection. In addition to the "Bayu Water Control" application system, Chongqing City has innovatively developed digital applications such as "Bayu Gas Control","Bayu Waste Control","Chongqing Farming Protection","Smart River Chief","Smart Forest Chief" and "Smart Meteorology" to build a "Digital Ecological Environmental Protection Brain" to integrate and share various data resources and realize comprehensive development and utilization. This year, the digitalization rate of core business is expected to reach 70%. Chongqing City has also integrated the construction of an intelligent automatic monitoring network for water, atmosphere, and sound environment quality, improved monitoring capabilities in greenhouse gases, groundwater, new pollutants, noise, radiation, rural environment and other elements or areas, accelerated the implementation of classified law enforcement supervision of pollutant discharge units, promoted off-site law enforcement, and formed a smart law enforcement system for ecological and environmental protection.

Empowering by science and technology, Chongqing City's ecological and environmental governance has the support of digital technologies such as big data, 5G, and artificial intelligence. A large number of high-tech environmental protection enterprises and high-level ecological and environmental science and technology talents are gradually growing, promoting the construction of ecological civilization in Chongqing City, and also building a digital governance system of "Beautiful Chongqing" to build a green and intelligent digital ecological civilization.

The extension of Sichuan and Chongqing joint construction mechanism continues to expand

The Fujiang River is the largest tributary on the right bank of the Jialing River, flowing through Sichuan and Chongqing. In July this year, at the seminar on "Sichuan, Chongqing and Nine Regions Jointly Build the Beautiful Fujiang River to Create a Demonstration Model for the Construction of a Beautiful China", Aba Prefecture, Guangyuan City, Mianyang City, Deyang City, Suining City, Nanchong City of Sichuan Province and Tongnan District of Chongqing City, Tongliang District and Hechuan District jointly signed the "Framework Agreement for the Construction of a Beautiful Fujiang River to Create a Demonstration Model for the Construction of a Beautiful China", clearly building the beautiful Fujiang River in the form of an agreement for the first time.

The agreement clarifies that Sichuan and Chongqing will jointly carry out ecological restoration of damaged shoreline areas in the Fujiang River Basin, construction of riverside ecological buffer zones, water ecological monitoring, and water ecological health evaluation, strengthen the exchange of ecological flow monitoring data, improve the level of digital supervision of ecological flow, and promote the joint construction and sharing of sewage treatment facilities and supporting pipe networks in towns and rural areas in adjacent areas, and do a good job in special actions such as prevention and control of total phosphorus pollution in the Yangtze River Basin, regulation of sewage outlets into rivers, and investigation and rectification of black and smelly water bodies. Carry out cross-regional joint prevention and control of environmental risks and emergency linkage for sudden ecological and environmental incidents, and explore the joint construction of environmental risk early warning and prevention and emergency command systems. Ecological and environmental protection and joint construction and sharing of public services promote the full integration of the Fujiang River Basin into the Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle, closely following the two keys of "integration" and "greening".

Improving the collaborative governance mechanism in Sichuan and Chongqing is one of the core contents of deepening the innovation of ecological civilization systems and mechanisms in the "Action Plan for the Construction of Beautiful Chongqing" of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. It is also an important manifestation of Chongqing City's deepening of the implementation of the "Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle Ecological Environmental Protection Plan". In recent years, Chongqing City and Sichuan Province have jointly carried out supervision of natural reserves and ecological protection red lines in adjacent areas, created a "six rivers" ecological corridor in the Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle, continued to promote joint prevention, control and management of cross-border rivers such as the Yangtze River, Jialing River, Qiongjiang River, and Tongbo River, and explored the construction of cross-border happy rivers and lakes.

In June this year, the Chongqing City Motor Vehicle Exhaust Pollution Management Center and the Sichuan Province Air Pollution Prevention and Security Center jointly held a promotion meeting for the joint prevention and control of mobile source pollution prevention and control work in Sichuan and Chongqing. This is the in-depth implementation of the joint prevention and control of air pollution in adjacent areas between Sichuan and Chongqing by the two places. Control and promote the integrated linkage of Incident Response Service to severely polluted weather. Not only that, Sichuan and Chongqing continue to optimize the co-construction and sharing of "waste-free cities", and the "white list" system for cross-provincial transfer of hazardous waste has been continuously injected with new vitality. The construction of Chengdu-Chongqing's "Hydrogen Corridor","Electricity Corridor" and "Smart Corridor" has also laid a solid foundation for the two places to carry out joint actions to peak carbon and neutrality.

Close cooperation has also brought gratifying changes to Chongqing City. As of August this year, the number of excellent days in Chongqing City was 220, an increase of 3 days year-on-year, and the PM2.5 concentration was 31.8 micrograms/cubic meter, a year-on-year decrease of 9.9%; 54 national green factories and 4 green parks have been built, reaching a total of 133 and 12 respectively. The output value of green parks has increased to 73.1% of the total industrial output value. The cumulative transaction value in the carbon market has exceeded 51 million tons. The effectiveness of low-carbon city pilots ranks first in the central and western regions...

The construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle is not only a major decision and deployment made by the country, but also a realistic consideration for the green development and transformation of Sichuan and Chongqing."Going in both directions" is becoming the common goal of the two places.

Strengthen guarantees and deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system

The construction of ecological civilization is one of the fundamental plans for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and the top-level design of ecological civilization and the construction of institutional systems are even more key.

Legal protection is an important part of the construction of beautiful Chongqing and an important chapter in the innovation of ecological civilization systems. In recent years, Chongqing City has innovated the "linkage between public security, procuratorial, legal, and environmental departments" to strictly investigate illegal and criminal activities in the ecological and environmental fields. The five departments of Chongqing City Public Security Bureau, Municipal Judicial Bureau, Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau, Municipal Supreme Court, and Municipal Procuratorate jointly issued implementation opinions on the connection of execution, and innovatively launched 10 systems including joint law enforcement. Chongqing City also proposed that when the district and county public security organs and ecological environment departments have disputes over the transfer of cases, they can apply for a municipal department for upgrading and transfer.

Not only that, Chongqing City has also strengthened judicial protection in the field of ecological environment, strengthened coordinated cooperation between administrative law enforcement and judicial affairs, improved public interest litigation, strictly implemented the compensation system for ecological and environmental damage, and improved the environmental management system for fixed pollution sources with the emission permit system as the core. Deepen the reform of the legal disclosure system for environmental information and accelerate the construction of an environmental credit supervision system.

On August 15 this year, during the second National Ecological Day, the Chongqing City Public Security Bureau reported on the work of the Chongqing City police in cracking down on illegal crimes that damage the protection of environmental resources and other related work in the past year. Among them, during the special operation to crack down on illegal fishing crimes in the Yangtze River Basin, 1764 illegal fishing cases were detected, and the work effectiveness ranked second in the country in the "fishing ban" assessment for three consecutive years. In cooperation with agriculture and rural areas, The ecological environment and other departments urged people involved in illegal fishing to carry out centralized proliferation and release more than 30 times, releasing more than 2 million fish.

In terms of promoting wildlife protection, the simultaneous establishment of rules and regulations and optimization and improvement are the characteristics of Chongqing City's deepening of the reform of the ecological civilization system. In recent years, Chongqing has strengthened legal protection and promoted the formulation (revision) of local regulations on wildlife protection, ship pollution prevention and control, and local standards for pollutant discharge such as chemical parks and industrial furnaces. Strengthen the supply of green and low-carbon development policies, strictly implement the resource tax law, environmental protection tax law, and cultivated land occupation tax law, and give full play to the regulatory and incentive role of green tax. Establish an enterprise energy consumption and environmental protection performance evaluation mechanism, and strictly implement policies such as differential electricity prices and ladder electricity prices for high-energy-consuming industries. Improve trading mechanisms such as emission rights, carbon emission rights, and ecological land tickets, steadily expand trading of water rights, explore innovative carbon finance businesses, improve ecological and environment-oriented development models, carry out pilot projects for ecological product value realization mechanisms, and successfully build co-construction and co-governance With the shared governance pattern, the modern environmental governance system led by the party committee, led by the government, and jointly participated by enterprise entities, social organizations and the public has been continuously strengthened in Chongqing City.

With accumulated accumulation and development, steady progress will be achieved and long-term, the reform of the ecological civilization system will always be on the road. In the next step, Chongqing City will anchor the overall requirements of "leading the west, advancing the country and recognizing Chongqing" and improve support for the construction of beautiful Chongqing around important nodes such as the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Development Strategy, the 30th anniversary of Chongqing's direct jurisdiction, and the 80th anniversary of the founding of New China. The goal system, work system, policy system, and evaluation system will strive to create landmark results in deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system.

Chongqing City will take the "nine governance" as the starting point and systematically promote the reform of pollution control and reduction. In terms of "water control", we have established a supervision and management mechanism for direct drainage of sewage overflows, a long-term mechanism for management and protection of black and smelly water bodies, an incentive mechanism for improving sewage treatment efficiency, and a water ecological assessment mechanism. In terms of "gas control", we will focus on rapidly achieving leapfrog improvement in air quality, establishing a precise control mechanism, iteratively upgrading the in-depth control system of industrial sources, improving the integrated control system of "vehicles and oil routes", improving the dynamic and fine supervision system of dust pollution video, and optimizing Domestic source pollution control system. In terms of "soil management", we will improve the prevention and control mechanism for cultivated land pollution, improve the soil pollution control and restoration mechanism for construction land, and establish an overall prevention and control mechanism for soil and groundwater pollution. In terms of "waste control", we will improve the solid waste management and comprehensive utilization mechanism and promote the standardized and comprehensive utilization of bulk industrial solid waste. In terms of "plastic control", we will improve the plastic pollution control mechanism in the fields of express packaging, commerce, and agriculture. In terms of "mountain management", we will improve the inspection and inspection mechanism for ecological restoration of mines and strengthen the supervision of "restoration while mining" in production mines. In terms of "bank management", we will improve the spatial management and control mechanism of waters and shoreline, improve the port operation licensing and filing management system, and improve the post-event supervision and law enforcement mechanism. In terms of "city governance", we will formulate construction waste management regulations, improve the construction waste disposal approval system, and improve the information sharing and disposal coordination mechanism for construction waste generation by municipal departments. In terms of "rural governance", we will improve the closed-loop management mechanism for black and smelly water bodies in rural areas, explore new domestic sewage treatment models suitable for the characteristics of Bayu rural areas, and improve the agricultural non-point source pollution prevention and control system.

Chongqing City will also continue to improve ecosystem restoration and protect biodiversity; with the goal of carbon reduction, comprehensively promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society; reshape modern governance systems and mechanisms to promote ecological and environmental governance in megacities; Improve the ecological and environmental protection inspection work system and promote the rectification of inspection issues; Focus on urban and rural construction to create an overall beauty of the city; improve the policy system to support the construction of beautiful Chongqing, and strive to hand over high scores on ecological and environmental protection.