Yueyang: 19% reduction in energy consumption of 10,000 yuan of GDP in 5 years Pollution prevention and control has changed from "terminal treatment" to "source emission reduction"

Red net moment Yueyang September 30 news (reporter Xiao Yi Zhao Man) On September 30, Yueyang City held a press conference on ecological environmental protection work in the third quarter of 2021 to introduce the relevant situation of the city's construction of a beautiful Yueyang in harmony and coexistence between man and nature in the past five years, and in the past 5 years, the city's GDP energy consumption has been reduced by 19%, promoting pollution prevention and control from "terminal treatment" to "source emission reduction".

Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", Yueyang City has focused on rectification, governance, protection and restoration, the construction of a beautiful Yueyang with harmonious coexistence between man and nature has been further accelerated, and the indicators of atmospheric environment quality, water environment quality and natural ecological protection have reached or exceeded the "13th Five-Year Plan" goal. Among them, in 2020, the excellent air quality rate in the urban area of the city was 90.7%, an increase of 15.3 percentage points over 2015, the average concentration of PM2.5 was 37 micrograms per cubic meter, down 30.2% from 2015, the excellent rate of the water quality section of the Yueyang section of the Yangtze River reached 100%, an increase of 28.6 percentage points over 2015, the comprehensive evaluation of the water quality of Dongting Lake was close to category III. of surface water, and the total phosphorus concentration decreased from 0.115mg/l to 0.063mg/l. The decline rate reached 45.2 percentage points, and the city's forest coverage rate and wetland protection rate stabilized at 45.3% and 77.28% respectively.

Since 2017, the national level has handed over 63 outstanding environmental problems in Yueyang City, of which a total of 51 are required to complete rectification and reform by the end of 2020, and 51 have been completed by the end of 2020, with a completion rate of 100%. In order to fight the battle against pollution, Yueyang City has invested more than 28 billion yuan in total, in accordance with the principle of not owing new accounts and repaying old accounts, insisting on accelerating the construction of environmental infrastructure, shutting down polluting enterprises along rivers and lakes according to law, strengthening ecological environment governance and restoration, strengthening ecological environment supervision and law enforcement, promoting pollution prevention and control from "terminal governance" to "source emission reduction", and reducing the energy consumption of the city's 10,000 yuan GDP by 19%.

The press conference also revealed that the "14th Five-Year Plan" Yueyang City will also face the difficulty of total phosphorus treatment in Dongting Lake, the assessment target is more refined, the industrial transformation is more difficult, the pollutant stock is larger and the pollution control work in all aspects, etc. The Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment will bear in mind the Yin Yin entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping to "guard a river and clear water", strictly implement the "Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law", "Hunan Xiangjiang River Protection Regulations" and "Hunan Provincial Drinking Water Source Protection Regulations", and actively adapt to the new requirements of environmental protection. Make overall plans for the management of the water ecosystem, and strive to improve the water ecological environment in Yueyang.

Jiang Hui, deputy secretary of the party group, deputy director and press spokesman of the Yueyang Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Wan Siliang, member of the party group and deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Hu Xiaojun, a second-level researcher of the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, attended the press conference, and Chen Xuen, head of the promotion and release section of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, presided over the press conference.