20 key words to understand China's environmental protection 2015

1. Implementation of the New Environmental Protection Law From January 1 this year, the new "Environmental Protection Law", known as the "most stringent in history", was officially implemented. This revision of the Environmental Protection Law mainly includes strengthening environmental protection publicity and raising citizens’ environmental awareness; clarifying the red line of ecological protection; controlling and responding to air pollution such as haze; clarifying the legal status of environmental monitoring agencies; improving administrative compulsory measures; encouraging and Organize research on the impact of environmental quality on public health; link pollution fees and environmental protection taxes; improve the regional approval system; improve the pollution discharge permit management system; protect relevant whistleblowers; expand the main body of environmental public interest litigation; Twelve aspects including increasing responsibility for environmental violations.

2. The new minister took office at the 13th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress. It was passed by a vote on the afternoon of February 27 and decided to remove Zhou Shengxian from the post of Minister of Environmental Protection and appointed Chen Jining as Minister of Environmental Protection. 

3. Hongding Intermediary On March 7, the press conference of the Third Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress was held in Beijing. Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining answered questions from Chinese and foreign media reporters on the spot. Among them, Chen Jining pointed out that we must never get stuck with the approval of environmental protection, and we must never make money with red tops. Eight environmental assessment units under the Ministry of Environmental Protection will be separated from the Ministry of Environmental Protection this year. On December 15, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced the results of the qualification review of 100 EIA agencies (the fourteenth batch in 2015), including 4 affiliated EIA agencies, namely Beijing Zhonghuan Guohong Environmental Resources Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Guohuan Tiandi Environmental Technology Development Center Co., Ltd., Zhonghuanlian (Beijing) Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhongkeshan Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. The official approval of the Ministry of Environmental Protection for the qualification applications of the above institutions means that the Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining has fulfilled the promise made at the press conference of the National People's Congress in March this year. It also marked the smooth completion of the decoupling of the eight environmental assessment agencies under the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The other four are Zhongsheng Environmental Protection Technology Development Investment Co., Ltd., China Green Industrial Co., Ltd., Nanjing Guohuan Environmental Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. and the South China Institute of Environmental Science of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. 

4. "Repentance Record" of Director of Environmental Protection On March 23rd, the headline article "Rhino Talk (No. 2)丨Repentance Record of Environmental Protection Director: I'm the Director of Public Relations and Director of Show" was published on the WeChat public platform of Environmental Protection. It also allows the public to have a more accurate and deeper understanding of environmental protection work. The article not only caused repercussions in the environmental protection industry, but also attracted widespread attention from the whole society. Many media such as Dragon TV, Jiangsu Satellite TV, Xinhua News Agency, Netease News, and The Paper rushed to report. 

5. Water Ten Articles On April 16, the highly anticipated "Water Ten Articles" was officially released. Emphasizing the comprehensive control of pollutant discharge, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the economic structure, focusing on saving and protecting water resources, strengthening scientific and technological support, giving full play to the role of market mechanisms, strict environmental law enforcement and supervision, practically strengthening water environment management, making every effort to ensure the safety of water ecological environment, clear and clear Implementing the responsibilities of all parties, strengthening public participation and social supervision to carry out prevention and control actions. 

6. Greening In 2015, the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization" issued by the Party Central Committee and the State Council proposed "greening" for the first time, ranking it as one of the "New Five Modernizations" and defining it as a "political task" , Requiring all fields, industries, departments, and localities of my country’s economic and social development , All aspects must accelerate the promotion of "greening" and unswervingly follow the path of green ecological development "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains". 

7. Environmental protection "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" Although the environmental protection "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" has not been released yet, it is at the intersection of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" and the "13th Five-Year Plan". The environmental protection "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" will surely become 2015 Hot words of social concern and discussion. In particular, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee passed the "Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development", making the 13th Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection more anticipated. 

8. Linyi Environmental Protection On February 25 this year, due to serious air pollution, the Ministry of Environmental Protection interviewed the mayor of Linyi, becoming the first city to be interviewed after the implementation of the new environmental protection law. Exposure has aroused the attention of public opinion. According to relevant statistics, the “shock control of haze” in Linyi, Shandong once became a hot environmental incident last week, and the dispute between enterprises and the environment was once again put on the table. On July 7, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued a document on the website of “East China Inspection Center conducted inspections on Linyi’s rectification. The concentration of four pollutants has decreased year-on-year, and the role of environmental protection in optimizing economic development has increased significantly.” The inspection team interviewed Linyi’s rectification work It is fully affirmed and believes that Linyi’s practice is worthy of further summarization and development. 

9. Tianjin Explosion (Environmental Assessment) An explosion occurred in Ruihai International Logistics Co., Ltd. in the Dongjiang Free Trade Zone of Tianjin Binhai New Area on the evening of August  The explosion has caused 17 deaths, and Vanke and other properties and enterprises in the surrounding areas have also suffered losses. This explosion also pushed the EIA issue to the forefront. Circular 

10. and No. 78 The Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued on June 12 this year the "Products and Services Comprehensive Utilization of Resources VAT Preferential Catalogue" (Caishui [2015] No. 78, hereinafter referred to as Circular 78), which stipulates sewage and waste Treatment, reclaimed water and sludge treatment services will be levied on value-added tax from July 1, 2015. According to the new regulations, the sewage, garbage and sludge treatment labor service will be refunded 70% after the tax is paid, that is, 30% of the value-added tax is required; The reclaimed aquatic products will be refunded 50% after taxation, that is, 50% of the value-added tax will be paid. The policy was issued on June 12 and was officially implemented on July 1 The response time of enterprises was less than 20 days. In a hurry, the policy does not stipulate the time and method of tax rebate. The industry has been controversial regarding Circular 78, which was issued more than two months ago. 

11. The third review of the Atmospheric Law The "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law" (hereinafter referred to as the "Atmospheric Law") lasted 15 years of revision and was submitted to the 16th meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the third review on August 24, 2015. However, many industry experts have raised doubts and disputes. Some experts have issued appeals such as "delaying the third trial", "returning to the furnace" or "major reform." Vice Minister of Environmental Protection Pan Yue said in an interview with the media that in the face of doubts and criticisms, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will be open and listen with an open mind. 

12. The overall plan for the reform of the ecological civilization system In September, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for the Reform of the Ecological Civilization System" and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to implement it in light of actual conditions. 

13. Underground drug storage On September 25, the environmental protection WeChat public platform (HJBUZZ) published a real-name report letter, Zhou Jiangang real-name reported Jiangsu Yangnong Chemical Co., Ltd. (listed company), Jiangsu Changqing Agrochemical Co., Ltd. (listed company) for long-term , A large number of illegal landfills of hazardous wastes seriously pollute groundwater and pollute drinking water sources. The following day, a listed company involved in the temporary suspension of trading, a listed company involved in Evergreen shares at the opening fell nearly 5%. After the exposure, the Ministry of Environmental Protection held a special meeting on September 28 and established an investigation team to supervise the case in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Department of Jiangsu Province. The Food and Drug Environmental Crime Investigation Team of the Public Security Department of Jiangsu Province also went to Jingjiang to investigate. 

14. Parade Blue Since the launch of the air quality assurance measures for the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War on August 20, 2015, emission reduction measures such as motor vehicle restrictions, business suspension restrictions, and construction site shutdowns have been put in place. In addition, some surrounding provinces and cities have also initiated safeguard measures in advance, making Beijing's air quality continue to be excellent, pm2. 5 Concentration levels have reached the lowest level of concentration for 5 consecutive days since the observation record. Following the "APEC Blue", the "Parade Blue" has become the new target of the capital. 

15. Countryside Fire (Straw Burning) Every year in the fall, the stalks of the farmland will attract a big fire, and this year the fire has been particularly fierce. According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s report to the media on October 18th, from October 15th to 17th, 29 cities including Langfang, Jining, and Baoding, among 338 prefecture-level and above cities across the country, experienced severe and above pollution. A large-scale smog. At the same time, the Ministry of Environmental Protection also informed the media about the situation of the national straw burning satellite remote sensing inspection and surveillance in the past two weeks: From October 5th to 17th, a total of 862 suspected straw burning spots were monitored in 20 provinces, cities, and districts across the country. There are 54 more than the same period last year, and there are more than 100 fire spots in Shandong, Henan, and Liaoning. 

16. Vertical management The "Proposals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposes to implement vertical management of environmental protection monitoring, supervision and law enforcement below the provincial level. A dual management system dominated by provincial-level environmental protection bureaus, and county-level environmental protection bureaus, as the dispatched agencies of prefectural and municipal environmental protection bureaus, are no longer set up separately. In retrospect, previous reforms mainly focused on the adjustment or strengthening of the highest administrative structure of the country, and rarely involved the functions, responsibilities and organizational structure of the local environmental protection authorities at all levels. This reform measure is undoubtedly the most important measure in the environmental protection system in more than 40 years. 

17. Paris Conference on Climate Change From November 30 to December 11, 2015, the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off. Nearly 140 world leaders from 195 countries will gather in Paris to discuss the future global climate change action agreement. At 19:26 on December 12th, Paris time, at the last plenary session of the Paris Climate Change Conference, which was postponed for more than 24 hours, the "Paris Agreement" was born, marking an important step in the global response to climate change. 

18. Beijing Haze Warning On the evening of December 7, the Beijing Heavy Air Pollution Emergency Command (hereinafter referred to as the Emergency Office) issued a red warning for heavy air pollution, and the city's highest warning level was activated from 7:00 on December 8th to 12:00 on the 10th. This is the first time that Beijing has initiated a red warning since the “Beijing Heavy Air Pollution Emergency Plan” was passed in 2013. At 7 o'clock in the morning on December 19, after Beijing initiated the red warning for the second time. 

19. PPP Since 2015, the PPP model has been fully developed in various places, and the industry has called it the first year of PPP. The National Development and Reform Commission recently announced the second batch of PPP promotion projects, with a total of 1,488 projects with a total investment of 2.26 trillion yuan, and the total investment of the first batch of projects has reached 3.5 trillion yuan. If you add the two batches of demonstration projects announced by the Ministry of Finance, the total investment in PPP exceeds 4 trillion yuan. In the foreseeable future, PPP will become one of the mainstream models of the environmental protection industry. However, there are some urgent problems in the construction and operation of environmental protection PPP projects, such as delayed or insufficient payment of accounts receivable, unreasonable price adjustment mechanism, and the use of PPP by local governments as a tool to resolve local debts and financing. 

20. There is a lot of controversy about "under the dome" under the dome. The scientific, professional, and authenticity of the video have been questioned, but the speed and scope of its dissemination have to be amazing. Objectively speaking, the content of "Under the Dome" is biased. The reason why it was selected as the key word of environmental protection this year is because the incident itself has indeed increased the public's attention to environmental protection. (Review of the incident: On February 28, 2015, reporter Chai Jing, who resigned from CCTV, launched her in-depth investigation of smog, "Under the Dome." In less than a day, the Internet was maxed out. It ended at midnight on March 1st. , On mainstream video sites, the video’s click-through rate has exceeded 31 million times.)