Audit Commission: China's water pollution control has achieved certain results
2022-10-26 13:05:05
According to the "People's Daily" report yesterday, the Audit Commission released an audit investigation result recently. After six years, the investment of 91 billion yuan, although the water pollution control of China's "three rivers and three lakes" has achieved certain results, the overall water quality is still poor, like The average water quality of Chaohu Lake, Taihu Lake and Dianchi Lake is still V or worse.
Faced with the huge contrast between the huge investment in manpower, financial resources and material resources and the effectiveness of water pollution control, it has been questioned by all parties in the society, and various problems in the governance process have gradually surfaced. The news pointed out that the "environmental investment" in some places is more like an "image project", which not only causes the environmental protection investment "bottomless hole" to be unfathomable, but even causes environmental damage. The investigation by the National Audit Office also found that more than 500 million yuan of water pollution control funds were diverted to other uses and misreported, and more than 3.6 billion yuan of sewage treatment fees and sewage charges were under-levied, misappropriated and intercepted, involving water pollution prevention project assets. The amount of idle problems exceeds 800 million yuan, and the actual sewage treatment capacity of 206 sewage treatment plants cannot meet the design requirements.
Such a situation shows that huge investment and poor results have become the most serious reality in China's current environmental governance. After paying a huge price for the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, we have made a major turn in the concept and consciousness of man and nature, economic development and environmental protection. Scientific development and people-oriented have become the first national appeal. Regardless of whether it is at the government or the public level, "protecting the environment and everyone is responsible", it is common knowledge to measure economic development with GDP. At the same time, with the strength of the state's financial resources, the so-called concept is backward and insufficient investment is no longer the main contradiction in environmental governance. The huge break between investment and effectiveness is directly manifested as a huge break between governance concepts and governance practices.
Behind this break, water pollution is not just a technical issue, it is not just an economic issue, but a fundamental change in the local development path. Looking back at the water pollution incidents in various places in recent years, it is not uncommon that in many places, in order to ensure high GDP growth, some enterprises that are obviously not environmentally friendly and even seriously polluted can still be protected by local government departments. The contribution of large profits and taxes to GDP growth is still more important than anything else. The strong inertia of the local pursuit of GDP is determined by the current cadre assessment mechanism. As long as the promotion path of the officials is still along the established track, the environmental and ecological protection projects and measures as the commons will be greatly reduced by the GDP. Even turned into invisible.
It should be pointed out that all environmental governance inputs are in the public finance category. The political logic of modern society, as the main body of environmental governance, the government should take responsibility for the output of public finances and put the basic rights of taxpayers into practice. This requires us to fundamentally “falling farewell to GDP worship†from the slogan to the local governance in the sharp contradictions inherent in the transitional society and the complex interests generated by the reform. This core issue is not resolved, and China's water pollution problem cannot be solved. Re-emphasizing water pollution, investing more funds, and re-introducing water treatment methods and technologies are all tantamount to boiling.
Faced with the huge contrast between the huge investment in manpower, financial resources and material resources and the effectiveness of water pollution control, it has been questioned by all parties in the society, and various problems in the governance process have gradually surfaced. The news pointed out that the "environmental investment" in some places is more like an "image project", which not only causes the environmental protection investment "bottomless hole" to be unfathomable, but even causes environmental damage. The investigation by the National Audit Office also found that more than 500 million yuan of water pollution control funds were diverted to other uses and misreported, and more than 3.6 billion yuan of sewage treatment fees and sewage charges were under-levied, misappropriated and intercepted, involving water pollution prevention project assets. The amount of idle problems exceeds 800 million yuan, and the actual sewage treatment capacity of 206 sewage treatment plants cannot meet the design requirements.
Such a situation shows that huge investment and poor results have become the most serious reality in China's current environmental governance. After paying a huge price for the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, we have made a major turn in the concept and consciousness of man and nature, economic development and environmental protection. Scientific development and people-oriented have become the first national appeal. Regardless of whether it is at the government or the public level, "protecting the environment and everyone is responsible", it is common knowledge to measure economic development with GDP. At the same time, with the strength of the state's financial resources, the so-called concept is backward and insufficient investment is no longer the main contradiction in environmental governance. The huge break between investment and effectiveness is directly manifested as a huge break between governance concepts and governance practices.
Behind this break, water pollution is not just a technical issue, it is not just an economic issue, but a fundamental change in the local development path. Looking back at the water pollution incidents in various places in recent years, it is not uncommon that in many places, in order to ensure high GDP growth, some enterprises that are obviously not environmentally friendly and even seriously polluted can still be protected by local government departments. The contribution of large profits and taxes to GDP growth is still more important than anything else. The strong inertia of the local pursuit of GDP is determined by the current cadre assessment mechanism. As long as the promotion path of the officials is still along the established track, the environmental and ecological protection projects and measures as the commons will be greatly reduced by the GDP. Even turned into invisible.
It should be pointed out that all environmental governance inputs are in the public finance category. The political logic of modern society, as the main body of environmental governance, the government should take responsibility for the output of public finances and put the basic rights of taxpayers into practice. This requires us to fundamentally “falling farewell to GDP worship†from the slogan to the local governance in the sharp contradictions inherent in the transitional society and the complex interests generated by the reform. This core issue is not resolved, and China's water pollution problem cannot be solved. Re-emphasizing water pollution, investing more funds, and re-introducing water treatment methods and technologies are all tantamount to boiling.
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