Zhejiang Banned Tannery Projects, Strict Project Environmental Access

The Zhejiang provincial Environmental Protection Bureau conscientiously implements the main line of "ensuring growth, grasping transformation, emphasizing people's livelihood and promoting stability" put forward by the provincial Party committee and the provincial government, serving the overall situation of economic construction, and strictly introducing project environmental access. Xu Zhen, director of the Zhejiang provincial Environmental Protection Bureau, stressed that investment in today's projects must not be the target of tomorrow's renovation. In the 143 construction projects approved last year, 7670 tons of COD emissions and 4800 tons of sulphur dioxide emissions were cut through the reduction of alternative measures throughout the year. In the face of the multiple pressures brought by the global financial crisis, the Zhejiang provincial Environmental Protection Bureau adheres to the strict decision of new projects in accordance with the decision making of ecological province construction, pollution reduction and the new "811" operation of the province, and does not reduce the examination and approval threshold due to the speed and effectiveness of the examination and approval. In strict accordance with the requirements of environmental protection examination and approval, in accordance with the "six principles" and "ten no batch" requirements for environmental protection examination and approval, the prohibition and approval system shall be applied to projects that do not meet the requirements of ecological environmental functional zoning and do not conform to industrial policies. According to preliminary statistics, since last year, the Zhejiang provincial environmental protection system has rejected more than 700 projects which do not meet the requirements of environmental protection, involving investment of about 3 billion 500 million yuan. Implementation of differentiated access policy. In accordance with the requirements of eco environmental functional zoning, differentiated regionalization environmental access policies are put forward for optimized development, key development, restricted development and prohibited development areas, and strict control and restrictions on construction projects that prohibit and restrict access zones are strictly controlled. At the same time, we should strengthen the classification and guidance regulations for key industries such as printing, dyeing, paper making and chemical industry, and promote the adjustment and upgrading of the industrial structure of the province. In order to protect the water environment quality of the Qian Tang River, Zhejiang banned the construction of new chemical, pharmaceutical, tanning, printing and dyeing, monosodium glutamate and paper making projects in the Qian Tang River Basin. Implement regional limited batch measures. The environmental pollution remediation is not in place, the sewage treatment plant deadline has not reached the standard discharge, the environmental petition disputes are too many and can not effectively handle the area, and the implementation of "regional limited batch". The establishment of project approval and regional environmental quality status linkage system, in Haining Agricultural Development Zone, Jiaxing Economic Development Zone project approval, urged the development zone to increase the heavy polluting enterprises to shut down the relocation and governance, and promote the comprehensive improvement of the regional environment. We should implement total emission reduction measures. In different ecological and environmental functional areas such as Qian Tang and Taihu, different volume reduction and adjustment systems are applied to 5 heavy polluting industries, such as chemical industry, printing and dyeing industry, etc., and the total balance requirement of "taking old and new" as well as "increasing production and reducing pollution" is put forward for technical renovation projects, and the total reduction task is implemented to enterprises and specific projects. While focusing on source pollution control, Zhejiang provincial environmental protection bureau takes the planning environmental impact assessment (EIA) as an important entry point for the environmental protection department to participate in the macro decision making. It effectively controls the total amount of pollution load from the planning source, and studies the formulation of a single project approval and planning environmental impact assessment linkage system, so as to improve the efficiency of the project evaluation. At present, Zhejiang has carried out more than 40 planning EIA pilot projects in various industrial belts, electric power transportation industries and regional basins. The vast majority of 117 provincial and above development zones (industrial parks and high-tech zones) have completed regional or planning EIA. According to Wang Yimiao, director of the project management office of the Zhejiang provincial Environmental Protection Bureau, more than 50 development zones have completed the ecological construction and transformation plan. They have successively launched the national and provincial eco industrial park construction work, and gradually formed 3 levels of circular economy development mode, namely, cleaner production, eco industrial parks and festival oriented society. Wang Xiaonan: editor in charge