System to delimit the rights and responsibilities of environmental protection red line

Beijing PM2 It reached 303 at 5:00, more than four times the standard concentration limit, which is equivalent to the serious pollution of smoking 20 cigarettes a day, which once again brings people back to the cold reality. In addition to the haze that swept 1.43 million square kilometers of land when it was serious, there were many troubles in the ecological environment: groundwater and soil chemical pollution that plagued North China, acid rain that endangered 135 cities across the country, garbage siege in more than one-third of cities across the country... The China train with rapid economic development seemed to fall into the sinking range of the "Environmental Kuznets Curve", and for a time, it was impossible to see the turning point of climbing. Ecological and environmental problems, not others, have become the risk of our being "expelled from the world".

This is the current situation of our current struggle between the acceleration of environmental protection and the continuous deterioration of the environment. It is an unbearable battle for environmental protection. Race against time, compete with people and bet against reality. The bet is the sustainable development of the future and the health of billions of people, including future generations. Environmental pollution, ecological destruction and climate change are like three "environmental mountains" on China's head, making this ancient oriental country undergoing economic and social transformation even more staggering. Fortunately, we have not lost the opportunity, nor have we given up hope and surrendered.

In the communique of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, although the length of ecological civilization is only 170 words, the top-level design of "protecting the ecological environment with systems" is ready, and the vigorous attitude of the central leadership of "not going one step further on the issue of ecological and environmental protection" runs through it. It is worth mentioning that although the formulation of "delimiting the ecological red line" does not appear for the first time, it appears for the second time in the party's resolution document. The establishment of this "bottom line consciousness" is the reform "big move" to solve the dilemma of ecological and environmental protection.

In the past, there was not no institutional system and innovative measures to protect the environment. In many cases, what was missing was the consensus and joint action of a game of chess. For example, in terms of ecological compensation, the pilot of carbon trading has long been carried out, but the enthusiasm of all localities is not high enough to support the task of energy conservation and emission reduction; As early as 2011, the national development and Reform Commission drafted the regulations on ecological compensation, but it was stillborn. The painful lesson of the continuous decline of the ecological environment fully shows that the old road of environmental protection, which relies on environmental pollution to automatically promote development and transformation, bold breakthroughs by individual local departments, and conscious implementation of wrist breaking reform by officials, is simply not feasible. In the case that the assessment and promotion of officials are linked to GDP, any environmental protection measures that hinder GDP are futile.

Where's the way out? As a clear example, when the State Council issued the "action plan for air pollution prevention and control" in September this year and established a "certificate of responsibility" for air pollution prevention and control with Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding areas, measures taken by all localities and departments have been put on the agenda. Hebei was still busy with the project last year. Only more than 10 blast furnaces in Tangshan and Handan were put into operation, adding more than 20 million tons of steel production capacity. Now, it has to abide by its commitment to reduce and eliminate 60 million tons of steel production capacity in five years. It can be seen that to curb the impulse of local governments to increase GDP and fiscal revenue at the expense of the environment, the key is to rely on bottom line awareness and red line constraints. In particular, to clarify the responsibilities of non Reformers by drawing a red line and avoid the reverse elimination of the first reformers, which is the key to the good implementation of any reform.