Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Li Yinting Wang Shiyu
There are fewer smog days than before, which is a change that everyone can clearly feel. Cao Houliang, born in 1983, has been engaged in environmental protection work for 15 years, and for him, the biggest harvest is that the environmental quality has been truly improved, and the people have really recognized the environmental protection work. He believed that the individual as a citizen should combine his ideals and pursuits with this country and this era. Cao Houliang said, "Everyone is remarkable, I think young people must be brave to take responsibility, now our environmental protection system is actively building an iron army of ecological environmental protection, and I have personally been working in this direction." ”
Twenty-five or six days a month on business only for the blue sky and white clouds
In the summer and autumn, the grass in the river is knee-high, and the ground cannot be seen clearly, Cao Houliang picks up a branch to make crutches to assist in moving forward; mosquitoes in the grass by the river are rampant, several trips down, neck, arms, and legs are all stinged with red blisters; during the flood season, the rain inspects the enterprise's sewage outlet into the river, the wet and slippery river embankment, the muddy river is difficult to move forward, many times fall, the shoes fall off, the clothes are wet, and it is often kept in the middle of the night; on the ninth cold day, in order to find out which illegal sewage is in the dozens of enterprises in the park, Cao Houliang and his colleagues environmental law enforcement personnel braved the wind and snow. Along the underground pipeline of the park, look at the observation wells one by one, open hundreds of observation manhole covers, and take water samples for comparison...
These work scenes are basically the norm for Shandong environmental law enforcers, including Cao Houliang, who is now a staff member of the Law Enforcement Bureau of the Shandong Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment. Born in 1983, Cao Houliang, as soon as he graduated from college, was assigned to work in the Pingdu Environmental Protection Bureau of Qingdao City as a transfer student, and after selection and assessment, he entered the Law Enforcement Bureau of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment in 2008, and has now grown into the backbone of the law enforcement bureau.
In 2015, Cao Houliang was in charge of the newly formed Integrated Law Enforcement Office. The new department, there is no experience to learn from, he led all the staff of the department from scratch, exert subjective initiative, for the new work. In this way, the province's environmental law enforcement team was organized to participate in the first ecological and environmental law enforcement training activities, the implementation of the environmental credit evaluation of enterprises in Shandong Province, the establishment of a grid system for environmental supervision in Shandong Province, and so on.
In the past two years, in order to win the battle against pollution, the law enforcement bureau of the provincial department has carried out a lot of law enforcement work. Take last year, in the winter of 2020, the battle against pollution has reached the final stage. In December last year, due to the influence of natural conditions and other factors, air pollution was frequent. From mid-November to mid-December, in such a short period of time, the Law Enforcement Bureau of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment organized seven heavily polluted weather emergencies, and more than 1,000 heavy pollution weather emergencies and dust pollution were found in these inspections.
"Every time we act, we need to formulate a plan, select personnel, daily scheduling, case feedback supervision, action summary, while participating in on-site inspections, while grasping activity organization, overtime, staying up late has become the norm of work." Cao Houliang said, "Many colleagues can travel for 256 days a month, basically the whole month is outside. ”
Sometimes the Law Enforcement Bureau organizes "Zero Point Action" to carry out night raids on the emergency response to heavily polluted weather in various cities, dust pollution prevention and control, etc., to ensure that various emergency emission reduction measures are in place. "At that stage, whether it was the law enforcement bureau or the department or even the ecological and environmental departments of various cities and counties, they all did their best to overcome difficulties."
Protect the national ecological security barrier The first to sign up for Tibet
Cao Houliang was also the first person to aid Tibet in the Law Enforcement Bureau of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Shandong Province, and in April 2015, he was the first to sign up for the environmental supervision technical assistance work organized by the former Ministry of Environmental Protection, and worked in Tibet for 7 months.
Cao Houliang still remembers the scene when he arrived in Tibet in April 2015, which had already passed the cold winter, but cao Houliang still had severe altitude sickness just after reaching Lhasa at an altitude of more than 3,600 meters from Jinan. "Headaches, walking heartbeats, usually we can easily do things, such as climbing stairs, to the plateau area, the body obviously feels hard." Cao Houliang said.
"Tibet is a national ecological security barrier, but the ecological environment is very fragile, and once it is destroyed, it is difficult to restore." Cao Houliang said, "The natural conditions in Tibet are very different from those in Shandong, where the main task of environmental protection at that time was pollution control, but in Tibet, the importance of ecological protection is particularly prominent." "For example, in Shandong, it may only take some simple measures to achieve ecological protection, but in Tibet, once the grassland is damaged, it is difficult to recover, which requires environmental law enforcement personnel to intervene in advance and always pay attention to their implementation of ecological environmental protection measures." Work has a need, young people must be brave to stand up to take responsibility, then 32-year-old Cao Houliang took the initiative to sign up for Tibet aid, not only work needs, but also hope to go to Tibet to feel the environment at that time, while strictly demanding themselves, work ability can be improved and exercised.
In the 7 months in Tibet, Lhasa, Xigaze, Qamdo, Nagqu, ali all left his footprints, except for Nyingchi, the lowest altitude, the other 6 of the 7 prefectures and cities in Tibet all ran again. In this 7 months, 12 business trips, 43 working days, participated in many comprehensive or special inspections for mines, highways, industrial enterprises, etc.
Cao Houliang still remembers participating in the environmental protection inspection in Nagqu and Ali areas in July, traveling for 16 consecutive days and running more than 5,000 kilometers. Nagqu is the place with the highest average altitude in Tibet, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, basically no trees, all grass, and the road to the highest county town reaches 5,500 meters above sea level. Suddenly from Lhasa to Nagqu, there was a second altitude sickness, taking medicine when it was uncomfortable, and never affecting normal work due to illness.
During the period of aid to Tibet, Cao Houliang worked hard to give full play to the advantages of Shandong Province in on-site law enforcement and standardized law enforcement of pollution sources, exchanged and communicated with Environmental Law Enforcement Personnel in Tibet, and left Shandong's good experience and practices in Tibet. From the first day he entered Tibet, Cao Houliang regarded this place as his hometown and loved it with his heart.
"This experience in Tibet was also invaluable to me." Cao Houliang said, "The conditions in Tibet are difficult, and under such natural conditions, The environmental protection people in Tibet have been like this for decades, and I think they have really made great sacrifices, which is very difficult." This spirit of environmental protection in Tibet, that is, the spirit of being particularly patient, being particularly able to endure hardships, and being particularly able to fight, really shocked me deeply. ”
Everyone is remarkable, and personal ideals should be combined with the times
Engaged in environmental protection work for more than ten years, Cao Houliang feels that his biggest gain is that the environmental quality has indeed improved, and the people have truly recognized the environmental protection work.
There are fewer smog days than before, which is a change that everyone can clearly feel. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the quality of Shandong's ecological environment reached the best level since the monitoring record, and the quality of the atmospheric and water environments was qualitatively improved compared with the beginning of the "13th Five-Year Plan".
"If the era we are in is a major change that has not been seen in a hundred years, then China's environmental protection work has also undergone a change of the times." Cao Houliang said, "We environmentalists are experiencing an important history, the sky is bluer, the water is clearer, such a change has a small contribution of mine, I feel very proud, this is my biggest gain." ”
Cao Houliang believes that as an individual citizen, he should combine his personal ideals and pursuits with this country and this era. Cao Houliang said, "Everyone is amazing, and I think young people must have the courage to take responsibility." Now our environmental protection system is actively building an iron army of ecological environmental protection, and I have personally been working in this direction. ”
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