Beijing's air quality improvement has made a good start
As the first quarter of 2024 draws to a close, there is good news about Beijing's air quality. A few days ago, Chen Tian, director of the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, revealed in an interview with a "good start" in the first quarter that as of March 24 this year, Beijing PM2.5The average concentration was 38 micrograms per cubic meter, a year-on-year decrease of 19.1%, and the number of good days was 76, an increase of 14 days year-on-year, accounting for 90.5%, indicating that Beijing has achieved a "good start" in improving the quality of the atmospheric environment.
Enhance the "gold content" of development with ecological "green content"
Look up and see the blue. In recent years, blue sky has been the most concerned ecological and environmental topic for the public. From 2021 to 2023, Beijing PM2.5It has achieved stable compliance for three consecutive years. The first quarter of this year is coming to an end, and the improvement in air quality is remarkable.
Chen Tian introduced that as of March 24, Beijing PM2.5The average concentration was 38 micrograms per cubic meter, down 19.1% year-on-year, and the number of good days was 76, an increase of 14 days year-on-year, accounting for 90.5%. "It can be said that it has achieved a 'good start' for the improvement of atmospheric environmental quality, and promoted the coordinated and sustainable development of the ecological environment and economic and social development. Chen Tian said.
Bringing more blue skies and cleaner air to the public is the constant goal of Beijing's air pollution prevention and control. Chen Tian said that Beijing's air quality has improved significantly over the years, which is illustrated by the frequency of the public's "blue sky" in the circle of friends. From "occasional sun" to "often sun", and then to today's "occasional sun", "the original blue sky is not often, once it appears, everyone is willing to take a picture of it, and then often see the blue sky, the sky is still very blue and beautiful, everyone has become a photographer has basked in the blue sky, and then the blue sky is more and more, everyone has become accustomed to it, and it is just 'occasional sun'. Chen Tian said that this is actually the process of Beijing's blue sky from a "luxury" to a "common product" through governance.
At present, air pollution control has entered a new stage, that is, at a relatively low concentration level, the space for further improvement of emission reduction is narrowed, and the difficulty of improvement increases, which requires "one microgram and one microgram", or even "0.1 microgram and 0.1 microgram". Chen Tian said that this year, Beijing will continue to implement the green Beijing strategy, enhance the "gold content" of development with the "green content" of ecology, and implement the 2024 blue sky defense action plan in view of the characteristics of the transformation of pollution sources to rigid emissions such as urban operation and living sources, the core of which is to improve air quality, and the main line is to reduce PM2.5concentration, the focus should be on promoting structural emission reduction, engineering emission reduction, management emission reduction and strengthening regional joint prevention and control.
Focus on green and low-carbon development and new quality productivity
The 2024 Blue Sky Defense Action Plan can be said to be the "construction drawing" of Beijing's pollution prevention and control. The plan systematically governs and coordinates Beijing's pollution prevention and control work by coordinating more than 100 tasks and measures in five aspects: blue sky, clear water, pure land, climate change response, and ecological protection.
Chen Tian said that this year's pollution prevention and control, the battle to defend the blue sky is still the top priority. In addition, the focus of the battle to defend clear water is to keep good water, treat poor water, make up for shortcomings, pay close attention to key areas and river basins, and promote the quality of the city's water ecological environment to be stable and improving; the battle to defend the pure land is to strengthen source control, explore and promote the treatment of new pollutants, and achieve good soil environmental quality; in terms of ecological protection, the focus is to take the accounting and application of ecosystem regulation service value as the starting point to continuously improve ecological diversity, stability and sustainability.
At the same time, the 2024 action plan highlights the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and on the basis of strengthening joint pollution prevention and control, it is necessary to further deepen regional green energy cooperation, strengthen joint protection of ecosystems, and accelerate the construction of national green development demonstration zones in urban sub-centers from the aspects of continuous improvement of air quality and deepening climate investment and financing pilots.
In addition, Beijing will encourage qualified districts to actively create green and low-carbon, pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergy pilots, "two mountains" bases, ecological civilization demonstration zones, etc., and encourage all districts to explore the establishment of clean transportation demonstration zones, groundwater pollution prevention and control pilot zones, "waste-free cell" construction, climate adaptation city construction and other district-level self-selected tasks based on the characteristics of their jurisdictions.
Green is the background color of the capital's high-quality development, and this year, in response to climate change, Beijing will improve the carbon emission trading system, improve the working mechanism for the paid bidding and issuance of carbon allowances, focus on new green and low-carbon new business forms, new drivers and new models, develop new quality productivity, and carry out pilot projects such as advanced low-carbon technologies, low-carbon leaders, climate-friendly regions, and climate investment and financing. At the same time, we will promote emission reduction in key areas, vigorously develop renewable energy, reduce fossil energy consumption, increase the scale of external green electricity, accelerate the promotion of new energy vehicles, carry out energy-saving renovation of existing buildings, and promote green buildings and ultra-low energy consumption buildings.
The construction of a beautiful Beijing will be carried out in three stages
In view of the construction of a beautiful China, Beijing has also made it clear that it is necessary to strengthen the protection of the ecological environment and strive to build a beautiful China pilot zone. Chen Tian said that Beijing, as the capital, should play a leading role in the demonstration of the first good district and strive to be a model of beautiful China.
The reporter learned that the city will promote the construction of a beautiful Beijing in three stages: the "14th Five-Year Plan" will further improve the quality of the ecological environment and explore the establishment of a number of benchmarks for the practice of beautiful Beijing; the "15th Five-Year Plan" will consolidate and expand to achieve the steady improvement of ecological civilization, and the beautiful Beijing will take the lead in basically completing it; the "16th Five-Year Plan" will be improved as a whole, and strive to become a model for the sustainable development of a megacity, and the beautiful Beijing will be completed in an all-round way.
In terms of the implementation path, Chen Tian introduced that Beijing will accelerate the development of new quality productivity and promote green and low-carbon transformation in the fields of energy, industry, transportation, and urban-rural construction through all-round transformation and setting up a model of ecological city, adhere to the management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, and continue to fight the battle of blue sky, clear water and pure land in depth, and consolidate the background color of green mountains, clear waters and blue skies Construction, the core area, the sub-center of the city, the central urban area, the plain area, and the ecological conservation area are all beautiful and beautiful.
In addition, Beijing, as an ancient historical capital, will also fully explore the ecological ideas in history and culture, actively demonstrate ecological culture, traditional culture and modern civilization, and continue to call on the whole society to take action and set up a model of pluralistic co-governance, so that the government, enterprises, industry associations, social organizations, citizens and other people can participate and share with everyone.
