The level of environmental protection in the western region is obviously improved

BEIJING, November 26. Since the implementation of the Western Development strategy, the State has strengthened environmental protection as an important part of the Western Development Strategy, formulated a series of policy measures to reduce the cost of resources and environment in the process of economic development in the western region, and promote good and rapid economic and social development. Environmental Protection Department spokesman Taudetian, 2008, the central government of the western region to arrange funds of 167 million yuan, the total amount of funds accounted for the National Rural Environmental Protection special funds 33.4%, supporting 226 villages to carry out comprehensive rural environment rehabilitation, the beneficiary population of 560,000 people In 2009, a fund of 382 million yuan was arranged to support 500 villages to carry out comprehensive rural environment rehabilitation, benefiting 1.07 million people.　　It can be seen from the central government's first set of rural environmental protection funds to tilt to the western region. Since 2000, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and related departments, has submitted to the State Council approved the "Three Gorges Reservoir area and upstream water pollution control plan", "Danjiangkou reservoir area and upstream water pollution control and soil and water conservation planning", "The Yellow River basin water Pollution Control Plan", "Dianchi Basin Water Pollution Control Plan" and The water pollution in the key watershed in the western region has been curbed and some watershed water quality has been improved remarkably. The project of water pollution control in the key watershed and the construction of urban sewage pipe network in the western region are subsidized by the way of "Compensation by award". Among them, the central financial subsidy to the Three Gorges Reservoir area sewage water treatment operation subsidy funds amounted to 425.42 million yuan.　　At present, the average subsidy ratio of projects in the Three Gorges Reservoir area and its upstream area reaches 70% of the total investment. In view of the relatively weak environmental supervision capacity in the western region, since 2000, the Ministry of Environmental Protection with the Ministry of Finance, the NDRC and other departments to the Western region has issued a monitoring network (radiation and surface water part) construction projects, such as a number of special funds, totaling 5,185,039,000 yuan. From 2004 to 2008, the Western area was equipped with 1596 vehicles, emergency command Vehicle 13, evidence monitoring equipment 19586 (sets), the western Region province, the prefecture (city), the county supervisory system has been preliminarily established, the environmental supervision ability obviously enhances. Over the past 10 years, the environmental protection agencies in the western region have increased from 2,131 in 1999 to 3,050 in 2008, from 17724 to 31368.　　The Western District Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau 1220 People, the city-level environment monitoring station 234 people, environmental monitoring staff nearly 3000 people received the Ministry of Environmental Protection organization training. Environmental protection departments to continuously improve the project EIA approval work, speed up the approval progress, support the western Region coal electricity, coal chemical industry, petroleum and petrochemical, coal deep processing, non-ferrous metal and nonmetal Mineral Resources processing construction project of the EIA work, 10 years to approve construction projects nearly 1200. The supervision and environmental acceptance of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, west-east gas transmission and other national key projects have minimized the negative impact of the construction project on the ecological environment. The environmental impact research and evaluation of the Cascade Development basin in the middle and lower reaches of the Lancang River basin, and other planning EIA, promote the local resources utilization processFrom the source to protect the ecological environment.