Shandong Binzhou has taken multiple measures to coordinate high-level protection and high-quality development

Binzhou City, Shandong Province conscientiously implemented itpracticeNear-flatEcological civilization thinking, correctly grasp the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, take multiple measures at the same time, implement the major strategic decision of the Party Central Committee to "vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerate the development of new quality productivity", take the lead in creating a "green escort" service brand, support services and enterprise needs to be fully integrated, help and guidance before supervision and management, and achieve bluer sky, cleaner water, cleaner soil, and more beautiful urban and rural areas.

Cohesion and focus on a high level of protection

The first is to optimize the process and increase the speed. Gather environmental elements to ensure the development needs of enterprises, adhere to the "elements follow the project", and do a good job in the total amount of indicators, carbon emissions, environmental impact assessment and other elements of the guarantee service. For projects applying for pollutant discharge permits for the first time, the processing time limit has been reduced from 30 working days to 20 working days. The enterprise shall implement a "warm notification" for the renewal of the pollutant discharge permit, and notify the enterprise to submit an application for renewal through a "point-to-point" text message 60 days before the expiration of the validity period of the pollutant discharge permit. A green channel for examination and approval has been opened, the time limit for applying for radiation safety permits has been reduced from 20 working days to 5 working days, and the time limit for processing radiation environmental impact assessment reports has been reduced from 30 working days to 15 working days.

The second is to improve the efficiency of scientific and technological applications. Innovate the application of off-site law enforcement methods, increase the proportion of off-site law enforcement, let more data run away, and reduce the burden of enterprises to meet the investigation. Increase the use rate of off-site law enforcement methods, increase the use of off-site law enforcement methods such as online surveillance, video surveillance, electricity monitoring, big data analysis, drones, and navigation vehicles, and achieve a 40% increase in the proportion of off-site law enforcement in 2024 and a year-on-year increase of 100%.

The third is to escort enterprises to promote development. Establish a working mechanism for enterprise credit restoration of "advance warning, assistance and guidance, and accelerated handling", actively providing services at the front, actively promoting the restart of dream enterprises, and guiding the completion of restoration efforts for untrustworthiness caused by environmental violations. The time for verification and write-off of enterprise environmental credit evaluation scores has been reduced from 10 working days to 5 working days. In response to public opinion petitions, establish a rapid response and disposal feedback process, strengthen monitoring and monitoring, investigate and verify the public opinion of key enterprises at the first time, actively assist in eliminating the negative impact of falsehood, ensure legal operation, and reduce the time for handling petitions of key enterprises from 60 days to 10 days. Let the dream entrepreneurs be freed from it, concentrate on entrepreneurship, invest with confidence, and operate with peace of mind.

Unleash kinetic energy and promote high-quality development

First, ecological demonstration seeks value. Focus on "more beautiful environmental quality", make efforts to tackle tough problems in a more beautiful ecological environment, study and plan the path of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" at the provincial level, and strive to turn "ecological value" into "development value-added" and "people's livelihood value". Binzhou's "zero-waste city" construction experience and phased obvious results were promoted and reported in "Shandong TV" as "Binzhou: Vigorously Develop Circular Economy and Build a High-quality Zero-waste City". On March 11, the typical case of Binzhou Policy EIA Pilot was promoted by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment across the country. On March 19, the collaborative pilot project of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in Zouping City's ecological environment zoning control passed the national acceptance.

The second is to promote key guarantees. Carefully do a good job in the second round of the provincial "four reductions and four increases" final evaluation work, and closely follow up the results of the docking assessment. Weekly scheduling of key project elements in 112 provinces and 266 cities to ensure the implementation of major projects. Actively coordinate the carbon emission index gap of Guodian Phase II Project and Shandong Yunyi New Materials Co., Ltd., and do a good job in ensuring carbon emission factors, and actively do a good job in the environmental impact assessment and approval of the 50,000-ton waterway project in conjunction with the Municipal Transportation Bureau and the Municipal Transportation Investment and Development Group Co., Ltd.

The third is to solve the problem of financing to help development. Earnestly study the needs of enterprises in terms of financial services, help high-quality green dream enterprises solve financing difficulties, and guide enterprises in need to be included in the national ecological and environmental protection financial support project reserve and provincial environmental protection financial project library, and strive for credit support. Earnestly study the needs of key industries in the implementation of cleaner production transformation, strengthen policy interpretation, and support pilot units to apply for awards and subsidies. In 2023, we will coordinate and invest 86.34 million yuan in special funds for ecological and environmental protection at the higher level to support enterprises to carry out the upgrading and transformation of environmental protection facilities.

Soft law enforcement, optimize law enforcement methods

First, there is temperature in fine management. Implement the "exemption from punishment" list system, according to the "Binzhou Ecological Environment System Administrative Punishment Exemption List", exempt 16 types of minor violations caused by non-subjective intentional factors, change administrative penalties to a letter reminder, clearly put forward work requirements and rectification time limits, pay attention to rectification of sales numbers, give enterprises appropriate room for fault tolerance and correction, and guide enterprises to actively correct illegal acts. As of April 7, administrative penalties were not imposed on 9 minor violations, and 2 cases were given lighter punishments.

Second, credit supervision is not disturbed. Explore the establishment of a positive list system, leaving the trustworthy undisturbed, including 142 enterprises with advanced environmental protection management and good environmental credit evaluations into the positive list, exempting them from routine on-site law enforcement inspections, and striving to ensure that the trustworthy are not disturbed. Research and formulate differentiated regulatory measures, setting up different random inspection ratios based on enterprises' compliance with the law and trustworthiness, and reducing the frequency of inspections of enterprises with good compliance with the law and trustworthiness. By the end of March, 26 companies on the positive list had been exempted from inspections, and environmental violations had been strictly investigated and punished to maintain a level playing field.

The third is to promote a win-win situation in the ecological economy. Earnestly study the new path of simultaneous improvement of economic and environmental benefits, and support dream enterprises to apply for A, B or performance-leading enterprises in heavily polluted weather, and produce normally or reduce or reduce the proportion of production suspension and restriction during the emergency period of heavy polluted weather. In 2023, the performance rating of enterprises in key industries will be completed, and a total of 8 A-level enterprises, 21 B-level enterprises and 12 leading enterprises in the city will pass the provincial on-site audit.

Forge ahead and fight the tough battle of pollution prevention and control

The first is to fight a good battle to defend the blue sky. We have strengthened the coordinated control of ozone and fine particulate matter, coordinated the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction and green growth, implemented 10 special rectification actions, established a rapid linkage mechanism for air pollution prevention and control, and dealt with more than 2,000 air pollution problems of various types. Organize eligible enterprises to apply for performance ratings for heavily polluted weather, and complete the revision of the list of emergency emission reductions for heavily polluted weather. Since 2024, the ambient air quality of Binzhou has improved significantly.

The second is to fight a good battle to defend clear water. Adhere to the overall planning of land and sea, continue to promote the "two clearances, one standard", and make up for the shortcomings of environmental infrastructure. In 2024, the quality of the water environment in our city will continue to improve, and the quality of the water environment will be significantly improved, and Binzhou City will be awarded the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government Supervision and Incentive Award in the field of ecological environment.

The third is to fight a good battle to defend the Pure Land. We continued to consolidate and improve soil governance, reviewed 157 soil pollution investigation reports, updated and identified 132 key soil pollution supervision units, and promoted 100% coverage of the construction of "zero-waste cities" across the region, effectively ensuring the safe utilization rate of key construction land. The ban on straw burning in summer and autumn has achieved "zero fire point". Fully implement the provincial rural domestic sewage treatment tasks in 115 villages, solve the environmental problems in front of and behind the houses of the people, greatly improve the rural living environment, and improve the people's sense of gain, happiness and security in the ecological environment.

Author's Affiliation: Binzhou City, Shandong Province, Ecological and Environmental Protection Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment