A series of reports on Guangzhou’s model creation ③ Guangzhou is bathed in water Source: 2005-12-01 17:34:12 [A series of reports on Guangzhou’s establishment of a national environmental protection model city ③] Guangzhou is bathed in water - the "Venice" of the East reappears the water city of the past ***

□ Yang Weimin, a staff writer of this newspaper, boats are flowing across the river, goods and treasures are gathering, clouds are flying, and thousands of countries are coming to visit... This is the former city of Guangzhou, a standard oriental Venice water city.

More than 2,000 years ago, the Wuyang Immortal came to the foot of Yuexiu Mountain near the Pearl River and lived beside the river.

The beautiful and mighty Pearl River runs down from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, crossing eight provinces and regions, integrating more than 30 ethnic groups, and converging with 50 tributaries. It runs for more than 2,100 kilometers, passes through Guangzhou City, and slowly starts at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain.

Flows into the South China Sea.

Because of the Pearl River and its descendants, the thousand-year-old commercial capital of Guangzhou is crisscrossed by water networks and criss-crossed by rivers and rivers - the water of the Pearl River has given birth to the rich Lingnan culture of this two-thousand-year-old city.

But once upon a time, it only lasted for a few decades, and the economic rod buried the purity of this thousand-year-old water city.

In recent years, Guangzhou has woken up and invested heavily in building sewage treatment plants and clearing rivers, hoping to return to the past when humans and water lived in harmony.

□ Since the creation of the model to block industrial wastewater or even earlier, Guangzhou City has implemented strict full-process control over the total amount of wastewater discharged by industrial enterprises in accordance with the principle of ecological priority, and has achieved remarkable results.

In the past 10 years, the city's total industrial output value has nearly tripled, while industrial wastewater discharge has decreased by 30%, and the total discharge of major pollutants has decreased by 60 to 90%.

Guangzhou’s management of industrial wastewater is legendary.

In the implementation of the State Council's environmental protection work plan of "one control and two standards", Guangzhou has deployed strong forces and regulations on key industries and key pollution sources to ensure that the city's 2,941 polluting industrial enterprises included in the assessment meet national and provincial standards on schedule.

, becoming one of the three provincial capital cities in the country that has completed the task of "one control and two standards" on schedule.

Guangzhou City pioneered the work of combining "one control and two standards" with corporate asset restructuring, corporate implementation of cleaner production, corporate product structure adjustment, corporate technological transformation, and urban functional area adjustment.

The "five combinations" approach has been promoted nationwide by the State Environmental Protection Administration.

Guangzhou is one of the earliest cities to implement a pollution discharge permit system and a total pollutant control system for industrial enterprises. This is also one of Guangzhou's proudest efforts in combating industrial pollution.

By 2004, Guangzhou had comprehensively carried out the verification of pollutant discharge permits for 134 key industrial enterprises, which accounted for more than 80% of the city's water pollution load.

Through the strict implementation of the pollution discharge permit system, Guangzhou has achieved significant results in the prevention and control of industrial wastewater pollution: in 2004, the wastewater discharge from industrial enterprises in the city was reduced by 30% compared with 1995, and the wastewater discharge compliance rate was 91.92%, an increase of 28.28 percentage points.

According to statistics, wastewater discharge per 10,000 yuan of industrial output value in Guangzhou is only equivalent to about 17% of the national average, and has been decreasing at an annual rate of about 10% in recent years.

In order to block urban industrial wastewater from the source, Guangzhou City first formulated the "Guangzhou City Urban Ecological Sustainable Development Plan" in the process of adjusting the urban spatial structure and productivity layout, in accordance with the idea of ??first making ecological environment planning and then revising and improving the industry development plan.

"Sustainable Development Plan" implements the strategy of "retreating from the secondary industry and advancing into the tertiary industry" in the industrial layout of the old city within the outer ring road. The old city focuses on the development of the tertiary industry and in principle no new industrial land will be added.

Expand industrial development space in new urban areas, form several industrial belts, promote coordinated development of urban areas, and effectively protect the ecological environment.

Secondly, during the approval process of construction projects, the environmental impact assessment system and the "three simultaneities" system are strictly implemented, requiring increased production without increasing pollution, and controlling new pollution sources from the source.

Third, new projects are subject to environmental pre-approval and management such as project approval, land use approval, and overall acceptance of construction projects, which provides an institutional guarantee for preventing and controlling industrial wastewater pollution and reducing total emissions.

□ Protecting life water So far, Guangzhou City (including the two county-level cities of Zengcheng and Conghua) has 61 water plants with a water supply capacity of 7.025 million cubic meters per day.

The water absorption points of drinking water plants are mainly distributed in the west channel of the Guangzhou Reach of the Pearl River, the north main stream of the East River, Liuxi River, Shawan Waterway and Shunde Waterway.

For a long time, the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have always regarded protecting drinking water sources as an important task of governing for the people, ensuring that the people have access to clean water.

As early as 1987, the "Guangzhou Municipal Drinking Water Source Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations" were enacted and implemented. In 1992, 1996, and 2004, Guangzhou City revised it three times in accordance with the requirements of new national regulations to comprehensively consider Guangzhou's drinking water pollution from a larger scope.

Source protection issues.

The "Guangzhou City Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Catering Industry Pollution in the Guangzhou Reach of the Pearl River" promulgated and implemented in 1995 prohibited the operation of catering businesses in the Guangzhou Reach of the Pearl River and the waters of the city's new drinking water source pollution control zone.

In 2003, the "Notice on the Prevention and Control of Reservoir and Lake Pollution" was promulgated and implemented, prohibiting all kinds of activities that pollute water bodies within the scope of reservoirs and lakes.

These local regulations provide strong legal protection for the protection of Guangzhou’s drinking water sources.