Guard the blue sea and blue sky in accordance with the law

Source: People’s Daily Online – People’s Daily

The clear blue waters are rippling with blue waves, slapping the coast one after another. “The sea here is really blue, and the mood is suddenly open!” In the Jinshitan National Tourism Resort, Jinpu New District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, tourists are full of praise for the beautiful coastal scenery of Jinshitan.

Jinshitan tourist bus driver Xu Wei is a native of “Jinshitan” and has witnessed the changes here. “In my childhood memory, when the tide came, there was always a lot of farm waste and domestic waste on the beach here, and the local villagers were reluctant to come.” Xu Wei recalled.

Nowadays, in the “Ten Mile Gold Coast” where Xu Wei works every day, there are many tourists and people’s laughter and laughter are heard from time to time. All this thanks to local conservation measures.

“Protect the ecological environment with the strictest system and the strictest rule of law.” Wang Qiyao, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Standing Committee of the Dalian Municipal People’s Congress, introduced that for marine environmental protection, the Dalian Municipal People’s Congress specially formulated and passed the “Marine Environment of Dalian City”. Protection Regulations, which will come into force in January 2021. By refining the control measures for livestock and poultry breeding and marine aquaculture, the regulations implement the coastal building retreat line system, establish a city and district (city, county) two-level bay chief system, and set up township-level sea patrols.

Jinshitan Bay has become a real “beneficiary” of the Bay Chief System. In January this year, Dalian Jinshitan Bay was selected as the first batch of outstanding (nominated) cases of beautiful bays announced by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

Institute good laws and promote good governance. In the past five years, the Dalian Municipal People’s Congress has formulated and revised four local regulations, including the “Dalian Environmental Protection Regulations”, “Dalian Marine Environmental Protection Regulations”, “Dalian City Domestic Waste Classification Management Regulations” and “Dalian City Livestock and Poultry Breeding Pollution Prevention Regulations”. Provide strong legal protection for ecological and environmental protection. At the same time, the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress also plays the role of a sword of law enforcement and inspection to ensure that laws and regulations related to environmental protection are implemented.

“How is the garbage classification in the village? Is the recycling timely?” On June 10, the law enforcement inspection team of the Standing Committee of the Dalian Municipal People’s Congress came to Lin Guiyun’s house in Zhuanghe City and asked her about the garbage disposal in the village. comments and suggestions. While showing the place where garbage is stored in his backyard, Lin Guiyun proudly said: “Since the village began to implement garbage classification and centralized transportation, the environment in the village has improved, and friends from other places come to my house to be guests, and they are very envious.”

Focusing on the collection and transfer of rural domestic waste, the resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure and straw, the management of river water environment, and the use of clean energy. Environmental Protection Regulations and Dalian Environmental Protection Regulations to carry out law enforcement inspections.

“We focus on the implementation of the ‘One Law and Two Regulations’ on environmental protection, focus on key points, strengthen goals, and combine the feedback from the central ecological and environmental protection inspectors and the opinions and suggestions put forward by the deputies of the National People’s Congress. During the inspection, we found that environmental protection The shortcomings and hidden dangers.” Wang Qiyao said that by giving full play to the supervision role of the National People’s Congress, law enforcement inspections will promote local government departments at all levels to attach great importance to ecological and environmental protection.

The Dalian Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee fully stimulated the enthusiasm of deputies to perform their duties, and the voices of deputies and grassroots people concerned about environmental protection were expressed and valued.

In January this year, Huayang and other 10 deputies to the Municipal People’s Congress jointly proposed the “Proposal on Formulating the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution in Dalian”. At present, the formulation of this regulation has been included in the demonstration project of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee’s 2022-2026 legislative plan. According to reports, since 2016, the Standing Committee of the Dalian Municipal People’s Congress has promoted the handling of 288 proposals by deputies to the people’s congress involving environmental protection, all of which have been implemented.

Guard the blue sea and blue sky with the rule of law. In recent years, through legislation, supervision and representative work, the Dalian Municipal People’s Congress has continuously played a “combination punch” for environmental protection. As of 2021, Dalian has achieved more than 300 days of excellent air quality for five consecutive years, and the ozone concentration has continued to decline for four consecutive years. The achievements in protecting the ecological environment in accordance with the law have been highlighted.

(Zhi Manqing participated in the writing) “People’s Daily” (July 12, 2022 13th edition)