Illegal dumping of sludge along the Yangtze River has increased instead of decreasing, and the government’s commitment to rectification has become a dead letter.

  CCTV News:The first batch of central environmental protection inspectors "looking back" has recently ended. According to the inspectors stationed in 10 provinces (regions) such as Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, the inspectors believe that in more than 50 typical cases reported continuously, the phenomena of "pretending to rectify", "superficial rectification" and "perfunctory rectification" have intensified and become shocking.

 

  In the process of "looking back" on Taixing, Jiangsu Province, the inspector group found that after the feedback from the central environmental protection inspector in 2016, the Taizhou Municipal People’s Government did not include the case of illegal dumping of sludge by Binjiang Sewage Treatment Plant along the Yangtze River in the rectification plan. The original 23,000 tons of sludge not only did not decrease, but intensified, increasing to nearly 40,000 tons. The rectification commitment in the local government’s investigation and feedback report became a dead letter.

 

  Liu Pan, State Environmental Protection Inspector Office: "There is a serious inaction, or the local government has not paid enough attention to this matter, thinking that this sludge pile can’t be disposed of, and it may be lucky for enterprises to pile it up, thinking that ‘ Looking back ’ You won’t find this problem. " 

  The inspector group found that some local governments responded negatively to the cases assigned by the central environmental protection inspector group, handled them simply, and failed to rectify them.

 

  When the Fifth Environmental Protection Inspector Group of the Central Committee was stationed in Guangxi to carry out "Looking Back", it received a report from the masses, reflecting that 2 million tons of smelting waste residue of Beihai Chengde Nickel Industry Co., Ltd. was dumped in Tieshan Port, occupying more than 400 mu of beach area and seriously polluting the environment. The inspector team rushed to the scene and found that the complaints of the masses were true.

 

  Liu Pan, State Environmental Protection Inspector Office: "The scene is quite shocking. Not only did it not dispose of these waste residues, but the strongly alkaline smelting waste residues from other places were also piled up near the port. The inspector group sampled on the spot, and the PH of the ponds around the waste residues was as high as 11 to 12, which was strongly alkaline. "

 

  The inspection team found that the submerged arc furnace slag of Chengde Nickel Company was all over the reclamation area, and Ruide Company illegally dumped it in the name of comprehensive utilization, which seriously threatened the environmental safety of Beibu Gulf coastal waters. However, for such environmental problems, Beihai City gave a verification reply that "the procedures were complete, all pollutants were discharged up to standard, and the people reported untrue". The Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group believes that Beihai City has not touched the real thing, the supervision and management are formalized, and the inspector’s rectification has gone through the motions, which has been severely criticized.

Eat 11 buns in a row during the emergency! A firefighter in Taicang, Jiangsu Province unexpectedly became popular.

During the fight against Typhoon Lichima, Ji Hou Niu Pei (first from left) and his team members were resting.

Ji Hou Niu Pei (fifth from right) participated in the activity with the team members. Photo courtesy of Chengxi Squadron of Taicang Fire Rescue Brigade

  People’s Daily Online, Suzhou, August 11th (Reporter Wang Jiliang) Late at night on the 10th, a 14-second video became popular on the Internet: a fireman was sitting on the ground while drinking water and eating steamed buns during the emergency rescue against the super typhoon "Lichima". Someone asked him, "Is the steamed stuffed bun delicious?" "Which one is this?" He didn’t have time to take care of it. He just nodded and continued to munch. After swallowing half a steamed stuffed bun, he said shyly, "No.11." Say that finish, he also Han Han smiled.

  At noon on the 11th, People’s Daily reporter learned from the Chengxi Squadron of Taicang City Fire Rescue Brigade in Jiangsu Province that the young man who ate 12 steamed buns in one breath in the video came from Daliangshan, Sichuan Province. He is only 19 years old this year, and his name is Ji Hou Niu Pei, a Yi nationality. He joined the Chengxi Squadron after graduating from high school. It has only been eight months so far, but he has participated in various rescues for nearly 100 times.

  Ma Yunqiang, the squadron leader of Chengxi Squadron, told the reporter that at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on the 10th, due to the typhoon, heavy rain fell in Taicang City, and the squadron immediately rushed to the front line of emergency rescue and drainage after receiving the task. "It wasn’t until 7: 30 in the evening that the squadron sent someone to send buns. The squadron correspondent watched him gobble up and took a small video for him."

  "Ji Hou Niu Pei is good at singing and dancing and is very lively, which is recognized by everyone ‘ Pistachio nuts ’ 。” Ma Yunqiang introduced that Chengxi Squadron has more than 20 members, with an average age of more than 20 years old. But when Ji Hou Niu Pei was depressed, he was alone in a foreign land, and he often thought of his hometown. When talking about why I chose the profession of fireman, Ji Hou Niu Pei said: "I have seen reports on the heroic deeds of firefighters. They are all heroes. I am proud of them, so I chose this profession. In the next step, I will continue to work hard and train hard to do a better job in emergency rescue. "

  The video of Ji Hou Niu Pei eating steamed buns became popular on the Internet. Some netizens moved and said, "Lovely fire fighter, (I) was deeply moved by you. Your name is so long that I firmly remember it. All the years in this world are quiet because of ‘ You ’ Carry the burden for us! "

  Just when interviewed by reporters, Ji Hou Niu Pei received a new task and went to Xinliuhe Bridge to perform emergency drainage tasks. He was indifferent to the praise from the outside world, and repeatedly said that "he will continue to work hard and be a better self in the future".