Although the enterprises to be introduced can bring economic benefits, they will cause damage to the ecological environment, how should local governors make decisions?
The answer to this question is: "Enterprises should 'stay', but they should 'stay' in green." ”
The consideration of the company's stay reflects the deeper development concept of Sihong County. In recent years, Sihong County, as one of the first batch of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" practice and innovation bases in China, has continuously explored the transformation path of "two mountains", innovatively launched the "green ticket" trading model, realized the balance of ecological space occupation and compensation, and promoted the harmonious unity of economic development and ecological environmental protection.
It is necessary not only to "green waters and green mountains", but also to "gold and silver mountains". As an important weight to balance economic development and ecological environmental protection, the "green ticket" is a prerequisite for Sihong County to meet the requirements of "both 'green waters and green mountains' and 'gold and silver mountains'". "The core idea of the 'green ticket' transaction is to offset the 'harm' of enterprise construction to the ecological environment with the 'benefit' of the ecological project to the ecological environment, and to ensure the 'energy conservation' of the ecological environment system." Wang Xu, the person in charge of the relevant work of the Sihong County Development and Reform Bureau, said.
"When the right to use state-owned construction land is transferred, enterprises can purchase the 'green ticket' for the cost of ecological environment restoration and ecological space governance caused by construction through the county ecological product trading center, and pre-pay for ecological environment restoration." The relevant person in charge of the Sihong County Ecological Products Trading Center said, "The 'green ticket' corresponds to the right to benefit from ecological projects such as poplar forests, and 80% of the final income of the project belongs to the holder of the 'green ticket'." ”
Since it is a "pay", there will be a "bill". How should the "bills" of enterprises that damage the ecological environment due to construction be calculated scientifically and reasonably?
According to Wu Changping, the relevant person in charge of the Sihong County Bureau of Statistics, the county set up an calculation working group based on VEP accounting, and invited experts and scholars from Suqian University as technical guidance with reference to the standard specifications for ecological product value accounting, and calculated the ecological value of specific plots in combination with the impact of the use of the state-owned construction land use right on the future ecological environment. In addition, in the compensation for minor ecological and environmental damages, the county's ecological and environmental administrative department scientifically assesses the ecological off-site restoration costs on the degree of impact of the enterprise's damage to the ecological environment. Up to now, Sihong County has calculated the ecological value of 5 development plots and completed 5 "green ticket" transactions; Received 356,937 yuan in compensation funds for ecological and environmental damage paid by 45 enterprises, and nearly 150 acres of poplar forests were created.
The special supervision and utilization of funds is the guarantee for the operation of "green ticket" transactions. "Our county has set up an ecological project library with the ecological product trading center as a platform, and included economic forest planting and pollutant treatment into the project library. The purchaser purchases the ecological project directly through the center, and the funds go into a special account and are directly used for the construction of the ecological project, which is supervised by multiple departments such as audit and discipline inspection. Zhu Quanquan, deputy general manager of Sihong County Liangshan Ecological Development Group Co., Ltd., said.
Behind the "green ticket" is not only "green waters and green mountains", but also "gold and silver mountains". Sihong County actively promotes the "green ticket" financing mechanism and innovatively launches the "green ticket loan", so that ecological projects have financial functions. According to 80% of the face value of the "green ticket", the county will be pledged by Sihong County Liangshan Ecological Development Group Co., Ltd. to provide guarantee to Sihong Shengda Financing Guarantee Group Co., Ltd. with the right to benefit from the ecological project corresponding to the "green ticket", and the guarantee company will then issue a letter of guarantee to the commercial banking institution, and the enterprise can obtain financing in the state-owned guarantee system.
Sihong County has actively explored the role of the "hands" of the promising government and the effective market to protect the overall balance of ecological space, guided more social entities to participate in the construction of the ecological environment, and transformed a "valuable" compensation into a piece of "priceless" carbon sink, realizing a "win-win" situation between economic development and ecological environmental protection. (Song Qing, Huang Ziqi, Chen Miao)