Qinghai Harnessing The Yellow River Pollution, Shutting Down Polluting Enterprises Such As Leather Making And Chemical Industry

< p > the Yellow River, with a total length of 5464 km, reaches 1983 km in Qinghai, and the Huangshui River is the largest tributary in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Over the past 10 years, more than 50 chemical, leather, smelting and electroplating enterprises have been built in the upper reaches of Qinghai and the Huangshui River Basin, and 14 small cement plants and 201 small coal kilns have seriously polluted the water resources in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. In recent years, the total amount of industrial wastewater discharged to the Yellow River has reached 35 million 830 thousand tons, causing serious pollution to agricultural irrigation and people's living water in 7 provinces and autonomous regions in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. < /p >
< p > in the process of carrying out the development of the western region, the Qinghai provincial Party committee and the provincial government recognized the general situation and took the overall situation into consideration. They used Scientific Outlook on Development to guide development and gave up their immediate economic interests. In the past two years, local regulations and policies such as "Regulations on prevention and control of water pollution in Huangshui River Basin of Qinghai province", "Regulations on ecological environment protection in the Qinghai Lake basin", "outline of Qinghai the Yellow River's ecological function and ecological environment protection" were promulgated successively. By the provincial, prefectures, municipal people's Congress Standing Committees, environmental protection bureaus, industry and Commerce Bureau and other law enforcement departments, joint action will speed up the pace of special control. In recent years, a total of 607 million yuan has been completed for the treatment of waste gas pollution. Over 500 million yuan has been invested in the past, and 12 polluting enterprises, such as Qinghai spark ignition salt plant, Huangzhong chromium salt chemical plant, and chromate salt chemical plant of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, have been completed and closed in the Yellow River and Huangshui river basins. At the same time, 50 cyanide tanks were demolished and more than 100 discs were destroyed, thus controlling the pollution to the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Guide County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is the first agricultural county in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, with abundant hydropower resources. In recent years, the county invested 9 million 600 thousand yuan to build an aluminum plant. Taking into account the pollution of the Yellow River's water quality, they closed it voluntarily and converted it into a farm machinery processing service industry. Today, the water from Guide county to Xunhua Salar Autonomous County has been cleared for 270 kilometers, and has become one of the best counties in the province's tourism industry. It has been praised by Chinese and foreign tourists as "the world of the Yellow River in the Yellow River." < /p >
< p > according to the statistics of the provincial Environmental Protection Bureau, the sewage discharged by the city has reached about 30000000 tons in recent years, and has been flowing into the Yellow River through the Huangshui River. In order to purify water quality, in recent years, the whole city has banned all 8 electroplating enterprises, 3 small steel mills and 11 paper mills, and fined 5 small polluting enterprises such as small glass and earth smelting mercury, invested 169 million yuan, built a Xining sewage treatment plant with 85 thousand tons of daily sewage treatment, and completed 500 million yuan investment to accelerate the construction of the "three changes" pollution-free urban engineering of coal to electricity, coal to gas and gasoline to natural gas. < /p >
< p > Qinghai will lose a lot of money if it shut down so many enterprises. Zhao Leji, Secretary of the Qinghai provincial Party committee, said in an interview with reporters: "Qinghai has closed down more than 50 enterprises that pollute the Yellow River. Although it reduces the local fiscal revenue by hundreds of millions of yuan a year, Qinghai must obey the overall situation and protect the source and the upstream of the 300 million people's lives and health in the 7 provinces and regions downstream." < /p >