134 chemical companies on the banks of the Yangtze River in Yichang were "closed and moved", involving more than 50,000 employees

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On May 15th, the front page of Hubei Daily published an article titled "Ensuring a River of Clear Waters Flowing Eastward", focusing on Yichang to practice the ecological protection of the Yangtze River and promote green development.

To break the chemical siege of the river forcefully, the battle of Yichang has broken the ice, and the task is still arduous.
Last year, Yichang shut down 25 chemical companies, and the city's fixed asset investment and local fiscal revenue fell by more than 10%.
At the same time, 52 new projects with high energy consumption and high pollution, such as chemicals, building materials, and thermal power, with a total investment of 23.
434 billion yuan, were "rejected.
"

On the one hand, the pain of reducing old kinetic energy, on the other hand, is the bill for ecological restoration, and the pressure of fiscal revenue is intertwined with each decrease and increase.
According to the survey, 134 chemical companies were "closed and moved", involving assets of 128.
416 billion yuan and 52,500 employees.
Local governments and enterprises are facing huge economic and social pressures.
Worker placement, medical insurance, and endowment insurance are all difficult problems.

"Never sacrifice ecological value for the sake of GDP.
" The Yichang Municipal Party Committee and Government stated that overcoming financial difficulties, they established a 1 billion yuan chemical industry transformation and upgrading guidance fund to guide enterprises to implement technological transformation, and make every effort to improve the transfer of employees and the continuation of social security.
jobs.

"Not afraid of pain and cutting sores, not afraid of intertwined pressure, not afraid of touching interests, not afraid of blades inward.
" Yichang promotes the Yangtze River protection action vigorously and vigorously.

Up to now, 151 illegal docks on the main branches of the Yangtze River have been banned, 29 phosphate mining companies have been shut down, 602 coal-fired boilers have been eliminated, 11 coal mines have been closed, 33 breeding farms have been demolished in prohibited areas, and 3510 acres of cage culture in lakes and reservoirs have been banned.
Retreat to 1100 acres of lake.
61 cadres in the city have been held accountable for ecological and environmental protection issues.
Under the "environmental protection + public security" law enforcement model, 462 environmental violation cases have been filed and investigated, and 32 criminal coercive measures have been taken.

Seek transformation and green development

"The mountains are greener, the water is clearer, the sky is bluer, and the air is fresher!" This is the intuitive experience of 4.
2 million people in Yichang; "The finless porpoise jumps and the Chinese sturgeon migrates!" Qingxiu Gorge River, showing new green development everywhere vitality.
The banks of the reservoir are still green, and fruit growers shuttle in the orange orchard, relying on small navel oranges.
Zigui villages with 3 billion yuan have emerged, forming a large industry of 2 billion yuan.

Hubei Sanning Company invested 10 billion yuan in the relocation and transformation.
The chairman of the company Li Wanqing said, “Although the road to transformation and upgrading is full of difficulties, we cannot wait to focus on green chemicals and seek breakthroughs.
” GAC Passenger Vehicle Yichang Independent Brand Project, A number of strategic projects such as Dongyang Sunshine Biopharmaceutical have started one after another, leading Yichang's transformation to high-quality development.

The city's Statistics Bureau released an economic analysis report on the 5th, showing that the conversion of old and new kinetic energy has accelerated significantly, relying on new materials, biomedicine, and electronic information industries.
In the first quarter, the added value of high-tech industries increased by 11.
4% year-on-year, an increase of 7.
2 from the end of last year.
Percentage points, the city achieved a GDP of 66.
29 billion yuan, ranking second in the province, an increase of 8.
8%.

Yichang started the urban mountain restoration of 106 hectares, and completed 108 kilometers of urban greenways.
The Yichang New District is planned for 220 square kilometers, half of which is ecological land.
Yichang has a forest coverage rate of more than 65%, and citizens can see green 300 meters away and enter the park 500 meters away.

Walking along Binjiang Road, you can see busy environmental protection volunteers from the "Three Gorges Ant Workers" from time to time.
Last year, they picked up 200 tons of rubbish on the shore.
Yichang launched the country's first set of school-based textbooks for ecological citizenship education and established the country's first "Ecological Citizen Day" to make green development ubiquitous and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"One side is Yunshan and the other is city", a blueprint of ecological picture, is unfolding in Yichangshu.
Yichang City is deeply advancing the "1+6" reform plan, that is, under the "Overall Plan for Ecological Environment Restoration and Comprehensive Management of the Yichang Section of the Yangtze River", six special plans are implemented, including chemical transformation and upgrading, water pollution prevention and control, and air pollution prevention and control.
, Green emissions from ports and ships, shoreline ecological restoration, urban ecological restoration, etc.
This is Yichang's action guide for practicing the protection of the Yangtze River.
There are a total of 83 reform measures, each of which has specific responsible persons, deadlines and assessment goals.

First, build the Three Gorges ecological barrier.
The city is stepping up the preparation of ecological restoration, ecological protection and green development plans for the Yichang section of the Yangtze River.
The negative list for industrial development will be established for the first time, eliminating the “three highs and one low” backward and surplus industries, and strictly controlling the development and construction activities of the main and tributary branches of the Yichang section of the Yangtze River.

"Let the mother river bank be clear, beautiful scenery, green water", Yichang will come up with a three-dimensional restoration plan, and play a combination of controlling mountains and rivers, repairing mountains and forests, controlling islands, Qinghang Road, and excellent industries.
Among them, the follow-up plan of the Three Gorges Project for the treatment of the bank collapse of the Yangtze River, the environmental treatment of the Huangbai River Basin, the treatment of the Wufeng River in the Yuyang River Basin, and the comprehensive improvement of the Xialao River channel, etc.
, are included in the first batch of key ecological restoration projects.

After the relocation of chemical enterprises, Yichang initiated soil environmental surveys of key industries and industrial parks and detailed inspections of agricultural land quality.
The city's soil treatment and restoration plans are being prepared, and special funds have been invested in the restoration of contaminated sites by chemical enterprises.
"To draw a blueprint to the end, there is no end to the comprehensive ecological management of the Yichang section of the Yangtze River.
Perseverance and long-term success.
" This is Yichang's promise.