Mongolia is located north of the mainland, and export or import trade with the mainland has become fast and convenient because of the relatively close distance.
However, its economic situation is still developing, and in the era of industrial development, Mongolia does not seem to reasonably seize the opportunity, resulting in today's industrial industry is still in the trough stage.
However, the slow pace of industrial development and the small number of domestic factories do not represent the improvement of environmental pollution, but the pollution residue of Mongolia's sand and dust and its raw coal combustion envelops the entire country and even affects the mainland.
Not long ago, after a heavy rain in Baoding, Henan, there was no clear sky and brilliant rainbow, but the whole city was surrounded by yellow sand, and the air quality was extremely worrying.
This is not the first time that the mainland has been affected by Mongolian dust, why is Mongolia's air pollution so bad? What efforts has the mainland made for the environment in the past 40 years? Let's take a look at what's in it.
Forty years of environmental defense on the mainland
Since 1973, the importance of environmental protection has greatly increased in Chinese mind, and this year, we have been fighting for nearly four decades of ecological civilization.
This practice has achieved great returns in the mainland, and now the surrounding environment of society has gradually improved.
Since the reform and opening up, the mainland has developed rapidly and has given the green light in industrial production, but it has also begun to face a series of environmental pollution problems while developing industry.
Gradually, we understand a problem, that is, the environment and economic development are closely linked, if there is no good ecological environment, how to talk about economic development, we must not use the ecological environment in exchange for industrial income.
The mainland has gradually upgraded from the once simple "three wastes" management to the maintenance and protection of ecological civilization. Since 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment has adopted the Declaration on the Human Environment, which shows that human beings around the world attach importance to environmental pollution.
In 1978, the mainland quickly promulgated a series of relevant provisions on environmental protection in the constitution, including the protection and improvement of the ecological environment in the constitution rather than just paying lip service.
In the following decade, the mainland's ecological environmental protection will make great progress and breakthrough development.
In 2015, the Party Central Committee of the State Council put forward a new concept of development, focusing on solving outstanding environmental pollution problems and adhering to the concept of sustainable development.
Until this year, major environmental problems have emerged, and for environmental problems, the mainland has issued a number of new environmental protection tasks this year to maintain the pace of environmental protection.
Why is it not an industrial country, but environmental pollution is so serious
Mongolia has nearly 3.2 million people, most of whom live by herding animals and not overdeveloping in terms of industrialization, but why do people continue to live in heavily polluted environments?
Mongolia's coal resources are very rich, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mongolia, as the mineral reserve country of the Soviet Union, frantically developed coal resources, and the economy was also driven to improve slightly.
But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it fell into a trough of development, no technology and no capital, resulting in the last train of global industrial development.
Because of the backward economic situation, and the temperature difference between summer and winter in Mongolia is very large, in the cold of nearly minus 40 degrees, most of the poor can only choose to burn raw coal for heating, and briquettes have become a consumable for a few people to burn.
What is the difference between briquettes and raw coal? Unlike briquettes, raw coal has not undergone any modern industrial processing, let alone cleaned, so it will release a large number of toxic substances such as sulfur dioxide, fine particles and other pollutants as soon as it is burned, which is a huge harm to the environment and human body.
However, the price of raw coal is half that of briquettes, and for most people, they can only choose raw coal to maintain their livelihood in winter.
Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, is aware of the problem and has issued a ban on raw coal, but this policy is facing many tests because of economic development problems.
According to statistics, most of the pollution in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, comes from the burning of raw coal.
Just on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, a family consumes nearly 700,000 tons of raw coal in winter, a figure that is not only fatal to the environment, but also a major hazard to the health of people living in Ulaanbaatar.
In addition, the local environment, especially the destruction of forest vegetation, and soil erosion have not been significantly improved, which makes environmental problems more serious.
Because of Mongolia's inferior economic development, the pollution produced is endangering the mainland environment.
In the past 40 years since the reform and opening up, the mainland has been gradually raising its requirements and expanding the scope of protection in terms of ecological environmental protection, and unswervingly taking the green development route.
Protecting the ecological environment is the expectation of people all over the world, and Mongolia's environmental crisis is not only a national problem, but also needs international support and encouragement.
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