218 departmental-level cadres (57 at the main departmental level) were held accountable for damage to the ecological environment.
According to the news of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on the 22nd, with the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the fourth batch of 8 central environmental protection supervision teams carried out environmental protection inspections in 8 provinces (regions) such as Jilin, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hainan, Sichuan, Tibet, Qinghai, and Xinjiang (including the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, hereinafter referred to as the Corps) from August to September 2017, and completed the inspection feedback from December 2017 to January 2018, and simultaneously handed over 89 ecological and environmental damage responsibility issues, requiring localities to further verify the situation and seriously hold accountable.
The party committees and governments of 8 provinces (autonomous regions) attach great importance to it, and all instruct discipline inspection and supervision departments to take the lead in filing and reviewing the issue of responsibility for the transfer, clarifying the facts, clarifying responsibilities, carrying out accountability work in accordance with law and discipline, and after reporting to the provincial (region) party committee and government for study and approval, form an accountability opinion, and uniformly disclose it to the public on April 22.
After dispatching and summarizing, a total of 1035 people were held accountable in 8 provinces (autonomous regions), of which 218 were departmental-level cadres (57 were main department-level cadres) and 571 were department-level cadres (320 were department-level cadres). Situation in different provinces (autonomous regions): 177 in Jilin, of which 53 are cadres at the department level and 93 are cadres at the department level; 109 are in Zhejiang, of which 19 are cadres at the department level and 61 are cadres at the department level; 163 are in Shandong, of which 29 are cadres at the department level and 104 are cadres at the department level; 135 are in Hainan, of which 30 are cadres at the department level and 56 are cadres at the department level; 160 are in Sichuan, of which 29 are cadres at the department level and 95 are cadres at the department level; 83 are in Tibet, of which 14 are cadres at the department level and 39 are cadres at the department level There are 62 people in Qinghai, including 16 cadres at the department level and 32 cadres at the department level; 146 in Xinjiang (including the corps) (34 in the corps), of which 28 are cadres at the department level (3 in the corps) and 91 are cadres at the department level (29 in the corps). In the process of accountability, the 8 provinces (autonomous regions) pay attention to the responsibility of leadership, management and supervision, especially highlighting the main leadership responsibility.
Among those who were held accountable, 296 were admonished, 773 were punished by party discipline and government affairs (times), 2 were transferred to the judiciary, and 10 were dealt with. Among the departmental-level cadres who were held accountable, 72 were admonished, 155 were punished by party discipline and government affairs, and 1 was dealt with by others. Overall, the 8 provinces (autonomous regions) have adhered to the principles of serious accountability, consistent rights and responsibilities, and lifelong accountability in the accountability work, strict and meticulous, seeking truth from facts, and played an important role in consolidating the responsibilities of local party committees and governments for ecological environmental protection.
Among the 8 provinces (autonomous regions) held accountable, 61 are local party committees, 208 are local governments, 684 are local party committees and government-affiliated departments, 31 are state-owned enterprises, and 51 are relevant departments and public institutions. Among the relevant departments of the party committee and government, there are 103 people in land, 99 people in environmental protection, 78 people in housing and construction, 68 people in water conservancy, 67 people in oceans, 56 people in industry and information technology, 50 people in forestry, 43 people in development and reform, 27 people in urban management, 17 people in agriculture, 11 people in quality inspection, 7 people in transportation, and 58 people in tourism, health and family planning commissions and other departments. The persons being held accountable basically cover all relevant aspects of ecological environmental protection work, reflecting the requirements of "the party and the government share the responsibility, and one post has double responsibility" for ecological environmental protection.
From the analysis of the above-mentioned handover problems, the problems involving ineffective deployment and supervision and inspection of ecological environmental protection work, such as inaction and slowness accounted for about 44%; the problems involving illegal decision-making and illegal approval accounted for about 38%; the problems involving prevarication and leading to dereliction of duty accounted for about 15%, and other related problems accounted for about 3%.
According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environmental Protection, the central environmental protection inspector is a major institutional arrangement to promote the construction of ecological civilization, and strict accountability is an inherent requirement of environmental protection inspectors, and it is also an effective means to promote the rectification work of the inspectors and the solution of ecological and environmental problems. The party committees and governments of 8 provinces (autonomous regions) such as Jilin stressed when reporting on the accountability of inspectors that discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should strengthen supervision and discipline accountability, seriously hold accountable for ecological and environmental damage in accordance with discipline and law, and provide disciplinary guarantees for strengthening ecological environmental protection work and fighting a tough battle against pollution.
"Political Affairs" noted that the 8 provinces (regions) that were inspected by the central environmental protection department all reported typical cases on the 22nd.
For example, Jilin Province reported the problem of domestic garbage pollution and environmental risk in the province. The Jilin Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has not paid enough attention to the treatment of domestic garbage in the province, the deployment is not effective, and the supervision and guidance are not in place. As of August 2017, 30 of the 55 domestic waste treatment sites in the province have not met the national harmlessness rating standards. In June 2016, the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development falsely reported the harmless treatment rate of urban domestic waste in 2015, which increased from the actual 59.54% false to 84.70%, covering up the problem with figures; 20 of the 33 old garbage disposal sites in the province had not completed the transformation as required; 1184 informal garbage dumps and 30 floating garbage; 48 urban domestic waste dumps in the province had imperfect leachate treatment facilities, and as of April 2017, 36 urban domestic waste treatment sites had not completed rectification. The leachate of domestic garbage treatment sites in Changchun, Jilin and Baishan seriously pollutes the environment.
In accordance with the authority of cadre management, Wang Xuezhan, then vice mayor of Changchun City (retired, and handled in conjunction with other violations of discipline and law) was expelled from the party and the retirement benefits were re-determined according to the level of the main section; Yuan Zhongkai, then a member of the party group and deputy director of the Provincial Housing and Construction Department, was given a serious warning punishment within the party; Qin Fuyi, counselor of the provincial government (then secretary of the party group and director of the provincial housing and construction department), and Wang Ku, secretary of the party working committee and director of the management committee of the Changbaishan Protection and Development Zone (then vice mayor of Baishan City), were given respectively. Han Zhibin (retired), then director of the Changchun Municipal Appearance and Sanitation Bureau, and Yu Jialin, then secretary of the party leading group and director of the Baishan Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau (retired), were given intra-party warning sanctions; Gan Maodong, then director of the Urban Construction Department of the Provincial Housing and Construction Department, and Gao Shuxiang, chairman of the Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection Committee of the Jilin Municipal People's Congress (then deputy district chief of Longtan District, Jilin City), were given administrative records; and 1 leading cadre who was responsible was admonished to talk.
Zhejiang Province reported that the problem of illegal development and construction in the drinking water source protection zone in some areas is prominent, and the illegal construction project is not effectively withdrawn. Tonglu County has built 12 villas in the Fuchun River Drinking Water Source First-level Protection Zone, and the county government and relevant departments have not reported them for many times, nor have they been cleaned up and rectified; the Xiaoshan District Government and relevant departments have illegally approved the Binjiang Oriental Coast Commercial and Residential Building and the Network News Silicon Valley Science and Technology Park Project in the Qiantang River Drinking Water Source Secondary Protection Zone; Jiaxing City has illegally developed and built commercial real estate projects such as Guardian Villas in the Xinchengtang Drinking Water Source Secondary Protection Zone.
According to the authority of cadre management, Zhu Yawei, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiaxing Municipal CPC Committee and director of the Propaganda Department (then vice mayor of Jiaxing City), was given a warning within the party; Li Peng, deputy director of the management committee of the Hangzhou Dajiangdong Industrial Agglomeration Zone (Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone) (then deputy county magistrate of Tonglu County), was given a warning sanction for government affairs; Chen Jun, deputy director of the management committee of the Jiaxing Economic and Technological Development Zone; and a member of the party committee of the Xiaoshan Branch of the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources was given a warning sanction. Deputy Director Wang Jianli (former deputy director of the Xiaoshan Branch of the Hangzhou Municipal Planning Bureau) was given a government warning sanction; Ge Chenzhi, chief planner of the Xiaoshan Branch of the Hangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau (former chief planner of the Xiaoshan Branch of the Hangzhou Municipal Planning Bureau), was given a government warning sanction; and Zhang Xun, member of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Xiaoshan Branch of the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (then chief engineer of the Xiaoshan District Environmental Protection Bureau), was given a government warning sanction. In addition, 1 department-level cadre who was responsible was given a reprimand and 2 section-level cadres were given a government warning punishment.
Shandong Province reported that the province's total coal consumption control work is not effectively implemented。 The Provincial Development and Reform Commission's poor deployment of the total coal consumption control work, the lagging task decomposition, and the lack of supervision and implementation have led to the incomplete completion of the coal consumption reduction target from 2014 to 2016, especially the failure to perform the supervision duties for the relevant enterprises in Binzhou City and Liaocheng City to conceal the coal consumption, which has seriously affected the completion of the work in the province; since 2013, the Binzhou Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government and the Liaocheng City Government have not implemented the total coal consumption control work, resulting in the total amount of coal consumption not decreasing but increasing Relevant departments are not in place to perform their regulatory duties, allowing the disorderly development of coal power production capacity。
In accordance with the relevant regulations and the authority of cadre management, Geng Tao, deputy secretary general of the provincial government (then member of the Standing Committee and vice mayor of the Liaocheng City CPC Committee), Xue Ke, then deputy secretary of the party group and deputy director of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission (retired), were given intra-party warning sanctions; Lu Dezhang, member of the party leading group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Binzhou Municipal People's Congress (then director of the Binzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, who was handled in conjunction with other issues), was given a serious warning within the party and demotion of government affairs; ge Jingfang, vice chairman of the Liaocheng City CPPCC Committee (then director of the Liaocheng City Development and Reform Commission, was given, Combined with other issues) serious warning punishment within the party; Liu Lianying (retired), then deputy secretary of the party group and deputy director of the Binzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, was given a serious warning punishment within the party. In addition, 2 departmental-level cadres and 13 department-level cadres were punished by party discipline and government affairs, admonished or reported for criticism.