Not long ago, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection informed and exposed six typical problems of accountability for ecological environmental damage, involving six provinces and cities of Tianjin, Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Chongqing and Gansu, and the number of people notified reached more than 40. It is worth noting that this is the first time that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has reported on typical issues of accountability in this field.

　　"The main leaders of local party committees and governments at all levels are the first responsible persons for ecological environmental protection in their respective administrative areas. All relevant departments should fulfill their responsibilities for ecological environmental protection, so that all departments have the responsibility to defend the soil, do their duty, and work together and work together." "For those leading cadres who damage the ecological environment, we must really pursue responsibility, dare to pursue responsibility, and strictly pursue responsibility, so as to achieve lifelong accountability." In May this year, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed at the National Ecological Environmental Protection Conference that we should resolutely fight the tough battle of pollution prevention and control, and pointed out that leading cadres who damaged the ecological environment should be seriously held accountable.

　　Supervise discipline and accountability, and guard green mountains and green hills. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has attached great importance to ecological environmental protection, all relevant departments have cooperated to promote ecological environmental protection work, and the central and discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have strengthened supervision and accountability, providing a strong disciplinary guarantee for implementing the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and promoting ecological environmental protection work.

　　Form political consciousness and strengthen re-supervision of supervision

　　In the circular, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection sternly pointed out that the responsible comrades in these places and units have low political stance, lax and untrue work style, weak awareness of ecological environmental protection, erroneous views on political achievements that attach importance to economic benefits and neglect environmental protection, and prominent problems of formalism and bureaucracy, which have led to the long-term failure to effectively solve the environmental pollution problem strongly reflected by the masses, and the ineffective investigation and punishment of violations of ecological environmental protection policies and regulations, seriously deviating from the central decision-making and deployment, infringing on the vital interests of the masses and restricting the sustainable development of the economy and society.

　　Why do environmental protection problems reflect the low political position and untrue style of leading cadres? "The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized at the National Ecological Environmental Protection Conference that the ecological environment is a major political issue related to the mission and purpose of the party and a major social issue related to people’s livelihood." Cai Zhiqiang, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of China Institute of Discipline Inspection and Supervision, analyzed, "Eco-environmental protection is not a simple business issue, but a major strategic deployment of the CPC Central Committee. Leading cadres at all levels should improve their political positions and whether they perform their duties and responsibilities for environmental protection work is directly related to whether they conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee."

　　At the same time, the circular also pointed out that it is a major political task for discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels at present and in the future to implement the spirit of the important speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary and provide strong discipline guarantee for fighting the tough battle against pollution.

　　Party construction experts believe that this is the faithful performance of the duties entrusted by party constitution by the discipline inspection and supervision organs. “‘ Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets ’ The concept was written in party constitution, and party constitution made it clear that the main tasks of the party’s discipline inspection organs are to safeguard the party’s constitution and other internal party laws and regulations, check the implementation of the party’s line, principles, policies and resolutions, and assist the party’s committees in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party, strengthening party style construction, and organizing and coordinating anti-corruption work. " Cai Zhiqiang said, "The accountability of the discipline inspection and supervision organs for supervision and discipline in the field of ecological and environmental protection can be said to be checking the implementation of the party’s principles and policies, and also assisting the party Committee to promote the comprehensive and strict management of the party."

　　In practice, the discipline inspection and supervision organs are stepping up the accountability of supervision and discipline in the field of ecological environmental protection to protect the construction of ecological civilization. On the one hand, since the central environmental protection inspector was launched, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have cooperated with the inspectors of the central environmental protection inspector group to keep a close eye on violations of laws and regulations in the environmental protection field; On the other hand, various localities have also introduced policies and measures to further clarify the responsibilities and working methods of discipline inspection and supervision organs in the field of ecological and environmental protection. For example, the Supervision Committee of the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection incorporated the key work of environmental governance into the important content of two-level inspections in urban areas; If the Supervision Committee of Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection has investigated and verified the ecological and environmental protection department and required accountability according to the regulations, it is required to intervene at the first time.

　　"Here, it is necessary to distinguish the responsibilities of the discipline inspection and supervision organs and the environmental protection departments. The environmental protection departments conduct business inspections on ecological and environmental issues in the front line, while the discipline inspection and supervision organs supervise and inspect the performance of relevant departments in environmental protection, which is the re-supervision of supervision." Party construction expert analysis.

　　Strictly investigate corruption cases and strengthen supervision over key areas and key links of environmental protection.

　　What areas of environmental protection system are prone to corruption? A notice can be seen in a glimpse: In February 2015, the former Ministry of Environmental Protection notified 13 cases of violations of laws and regulations by environmental protection personnel in 6 provinces, and many leading cadres were jailed for using their positions to make profits and accept bribes. By analyzing these 13 cases, it can be found that key areas such as environmental assessment approval, law enforcement supervision, solid waste management, environmental monitoring, and approval of special funds declaration have become prone to corruption.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said in an interview with the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that there are three main characteristics of corruption cases investigated and dealt with in the country in recent years: First, major corruption cases mainly occur in important business areas such as environmental approval, project fund allocation, environmental law enforcement, environmental monitoring and solid waste management; Second, the amount involved is relatively large. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, cases involving more than 10 million yuan have occurred from time to time, which has a bad social impact. Third, there are many cases in the local environmental protection system, and there are many cases of group corruption, some of which have worsened the political ecology of one party.

　　Judging from the trend analysis, the person in charge believes that, on the one hand, with the comprehensive and strict administration of the party, serious corruption cases are generally declining. Taking 2017 as an example, the number of people in environmental protection departments suspected of committing crimes transferred to judicial organs decreased by 40% compared with 2016, and the national environmental protection system has achieved remarkable results in comprehensively administering the party strictly; On the other hand, problems such as "micro-corruption" and "four winds" are still outstanding. During the disciplinary review, the discipline inspection and supervision organs found that "micro-corruption" problems, such as human supervision, human law enforcement, profit from supervision and assessment, and eating and taking cards, private use of buses, accepting banquets and other hidden violations of the spirit of the eight central regulations and inaction are still outstanding. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the number of people in environmental protection departments who have been lightly punished by Party discipline has been increasing year by year, with an average annual increase of 61%.

　　"The investment in eco-environmental engineering construction will continue to increase, and the risk of clean government in law enforcement and engineering will be significantly improved." The person in charge stressed that we must attach great importance to this, adhere to both the symptoms and the root causes, effectively reduce the stock of corruption, and resolutely curb the increase of corruption.

　　Party construction experts said that in view of the characteristics of corruption cases in the environmental protection system in recent years, the discipline inspection and supervision organs should strengthen supervision over key areas and key links, and form a shock to hell to pay, who violates discipline and law; Relevant departments should also improve the loopholes in the system and further reduce the space for corruption in the fields of environmental examination and approval, project fund allocation and environmental protection law enforcement.

　　Strong accountability and hard accountability, and promote the responsibility of ecological environmental protection.

　　"The ecological environment has obviously improved, and the determination, strength and effectiveness of promoting ecological civilization construction have never been greater. The prevention and control actions of air, water and soil pollution have achieved remarkable results." The Central Economic Work Conference held in December 2017 summed up the ecological and environmental protection work in the past five years. In the joint effort to achieve such results, serious accountability is indispensable.

　　In March this year, the second batch of seven provinces and cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hubei, which accepted the central environmental protection supervision, made public the accountability of the cases handed over by the inspector group, with a total of 1048 people accountable. Liu Youbin, spokesperson of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that seven provinces and cities paid attention to investigating leadership responsibility, management responsibility and supervision responsibility, especially highlighting leadership responsibility, which played an important role in continuously strengthening the awareness of environmental protection responsibility of local party committees and governments.

　　Practice has proved that the key to whether the responsibility of ecological environmental protection can be implemented lies in leading cadres. Behind some major ecological and environmental incidents, there are often problems of irresponsible inaction of leading cadres, problems of weak environmental awareness, inadequate performance of duties and lax enforcement, and problems of inadequate enforcement and supervision of environmental protection departments.

　　With the continuous improvement of the central government’s requirements for the construction of ecological civilization, the improvement of environmental protection laws and regulations and the enhancement of people’s awareness of environmental protection, the responsibility for damage to the ecological environment has also been continuously strengthened: in March, 221 people in Hubei Province were seriously held accountable for damage to the ecological environment; In May, Changchun reported six typical cases of accountability in the field of environmental protection; In May, Chengdu reported five typical cases of accountability in the field of ecological environmental protection … …

　　At the same time, the system construction has been continuously improved: in August 2015, the Central Office and the State Council issued the "Measures for Investigating the Responsibility of Party and Government Leading Cadres for Ecological Environment Damage (Trial)", which used the system to guide and standardize the use rights of leading cadres and drew a red line of responsibility for leading cadres in the field of ecological environment; In December 2016, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Measures for Evaluation and Assessment of Ecological Civilization Construction Goals", clarifying that if the evaluation and assessment results are distorted due to malpractice for personal gain, false reporting, tampering with data, and falsification of information, the discipline inspection and supervision organs and organizations (personnel) departments shall seriously investigate the responsibilities of relevant units and personnel in accordance with relevant regulations.

　　Various localities have also introduced measures to strengthen the accountability of discipline inspection and supervision organs in the field of environmental protection, such as Hunan’s new regulations on the responsibility of environmental protection and the measures for investigating the responsibility of major environmental problems (incidents); Sichuan has made clear the system of "lifelong investigation" of the responsibility for ecological environmental damage, and strengthened the responsibility of the party and government for ecological environmental protection.

　　"The vitality of the system lies in its implementation, which is inseparable from the great attention of party committees and governments at all levels. Discipline inspection and supervision organs, organization (personnel) departments and relevant regulatory departments do their respective duties, form joint efforts, and pursue responsibility to the end." Cai Zhiqiang said.