2022 China Modern Ecological Development Index 70.1: Water pollution becomes the greatest concern

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Text | "Well -off" · China Well -off reporter Liu Yanhua

This year, water pollution defeated air pollution for the first time, and appeared on the top of the "serious threatening public pollution type rankings" with a voting rate of 42.5%.

With the number of GDP incremental nationwide, the average concentration of PM2.5 in Jiangsu Province has realized the "eight consecutive declines" since 2013; in 2021, Beijing's air quality has been comprehensive for the first time. The optimal level; the cumulative trading volume and amount of the carbon emissions quotas in Guangdong are 1999.7 million tons and 4.61 billion yuan, ranking first in the country ...

Recently, the announcement of the ecological environment of Jiangsu, Beijing, Guangdong and other provinces in 2021 has been released one after another, and has handed over a beautiful transcript.

Is the data consistent with the public feelings? From April to May 2022, the "Well -off" magazine cooperated with the National Information Center, and together with relevant experts and institutions, a "2022 China Modern Ecological Development Index" questionnaire survey was conducted nationwide. 18.8%of the respondents bluntly said that the surrounding environment was "very good", and 47.7%of the respondents evaluated "better". Nearly 70%of the respondents believed that it was better than last year's ecological environment compared to last year.

More than 60 % of the respondents like the air

The "China's Modern Ecological Development Index" is born in the "Chinese Ecological Well -off Index", which is closely developed with the development trend of the times. System evaluation, environmental protection government investment, implementation and efficiency recognition, self -evaluation of environmental awareness and participation, and expected ecological environmental protection prospects are measured. After weighted the survey results and statistical monitoring data of relevant national departments, the Chinese modern ecological development index of 2022 was 70.1 points, an increase of 2.8 points over the previous year.

This year, of the five segmented indicators, the expected indicators of ecological environmental protection are not only scored the highest, but also the fastest progress, 80.2 points, which is 5.1 points higher than the previous year. The second is the evaluation indicators of my country's ecological environmental protection policies, laws and regulations and regulations, scored 71.3 points, an increase of 2.6 points over the previous year. The remaining three segmented indicators did not break through the 70 -point mark. From high to low, it is a self -rating indicator of government investment, execution and efficiency of environmental protection from high to low. The scores are 69.4 points, 69.2 points and 66.9 points in turn.

From the extensive development of the past to today's refined cultivation, ecological livability has become an important indicator of measuring the overall level of city development. The results of the "2022 China Modern Ecological Development Index" showed that the head of the eight major elements in the ecological livable cities in the eyes of Chinese people is still "fresh air", and 89.2%of the respondents chose this option. In the past two years, the results of the "Chinese Modern Ecological Development Index" survey and the results of the "China Ecological Well -off Index" survey over the years are the first eight elements of ecological livable cities in the eyes of the "fresh air" for the sixth consecutive year.

Just as Ye Min, deputy minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said at the "China Ten Years" series of theme press conferences held by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on May 12 that "my country's ecological environment has achieved a historic turning point." This is particularly outstanding in terms of air pollution control. Data show that in 2021, the number of excellent days in the country increased by 6.5 percentage points compared with 2015, which means that an average of 23 blue sky in each city increased.

This change is also reflected in the survey of the "Chinese Modern Ecological Development Index" and the "China Ecological Well -off Index" survey. For the air quality of the city, 64%of the respondents who received the "2022 China Modern Ecological Development Index" survey were given to A positive evaluation, and this number was only 22.3%in the "2017 China Ecological Well -off Index" survey.

However, my country's atmospheric environmental governance still needs to continue to make efforts. At present, not only the average PM2.5 concentration of 29.8%of the cities exceeds the standard, but the process of regional severe pollution weather also occurs from time to time, and it is still a long distance from the good wishes of the people.

Water pollution has become the head of "threatening the public"

In addition to fresh air, clean drinking water, neat neighborhoods, smooth transportation, sufficient green space and parks, beautiful urban landscapes, safe walking and bicycle travel space, garbage classification management, etc. Preparation element.

However, compared to air, more and more people are worrying about the problem of water. "At present, what are the threats to environmental pollution?" It is a retaining question for the "Chinese Modern Ecological Development Index" questionnaire. The results show that this year, water pollution defeated air pollution for the first time, and boarded it with a voting rate of 42.5%. The list of "serious threatening public pollution types". For the water body quality of daily life water (tap water, accumulation water, etc.), 59.6%of the respondents evaluated "general", 15.9%of the respondents thought it was "worse", 1.3%of the respondents bluntly said that "very bad", The proportion of respondents with positive evaluations is only 23.2%. The interviewee's evaluation of the natural water bodies (streams, rivers, rivers, rivers, lakes, and seas) of their city (water volume, water quality) evaluation is also not optimistic. It means "worse", and 8.4%of the respondents bluntly said that "very bad", which also gives less than 30%of the respondents who have evaluated positive evaluations. Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued a notification on the national water environment in the first quarter of 2022. Among the national surface water assessment section, the proportion of type I -Ⅲ was 88.2%, an increase of 5.2 percentage points; %, A year -on -year decrease of 1.1 percentage points. At the same time, the problems of imbalanced ecological environmental protection nationwide in the country are still prominent, some sections of water quality have rebounded, and some areas are lagging behind in the elimination of inferior categories.

The problem of water pollution is in the water, the root is on the shore, and the sewage port in the river is a key node connecting the shore and in the water. On January 29, 2022, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Implementation Opinions on Strengthening the Supervision and Administration of Entry and Entering the Sea and Entrusted Poor Pass", which focused on the existing sewage port "how to treat", "how to review" the new sewage port, and "how to manage" daily life. Systematic deployment of sewage outlet supervision and management. This document has proposed a number of innovation measures, especially for the prominent problem of "unable to find the master" for the sewage outlet. This document clearly requires the subject of responsibility to clearly discharge the port one by one. , Or the subject designated by it to ensure that someone is in charge and the responsibility is responsible.

Over 80 % of the respondents believe "it will get better and better"

According to the convention, the survey was asked to choose the seven major problems of my country's environmental governance work. The results showed that "enterprises only care about their own economic interests and lack social responsibility" first, "local governments have interest drives, poor implementation" The second, but the voting rate of the two is almost the same. It can be seen that consolidating the environmental protection responsibilities of enterprises and local governments is still the key to winning pollution governance.

From the perspective of local governments, at present, the central and provinces and cities have formulated a list of responsibilities for ecological environmental protection. The people's governments at all levels report to the people's congress at the same level and the provincial government each year to report the goals and tasks of the ecological environment to the State Council each year. The Party Central Committee evaluated the effectiveness of the provincial party committee and government pollution prevention and control, carried out and continued to deepen the central ecological environmental protection inspection, and provincial -level environmental protection supervision systems were also established. In the next step, we will focus on improving the vertical management system of monitoring and supervision and law enforcement of ecological environment institutions below the province, deepen the reform of comprehensive administrative law enforcement in ecological environmental protection, and further compact the responsibility of local ecological environmental protection.

From the perspective of the enterprise level, my country has incorporated more than 3.3 million fixed pollution sources across the country into sewage management. The license management information platform has achieved full coverage of the environmental supervision of pollution permits. For more than 40 industries with relatively small sewage volume, the registered environmental assessment registration and pollution license registration management will be merged to reduce the burden on the enterprise.

Environmental protection, everyone is responsible. The "2022 China Modern Ecological Development Index" survey shows that nearly 90 % of the respondents are willing to change some of their own lifestyles for environmental protection.

With action, you can be confident. For the prospects of China's ecological environmental protection, over 80 % of the respondents believe that "it will get better and better."

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This article was published in "Well -off" in early June 2022

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