Recently, the digital project of “Building a fixed pollution source supervision system with the pollution discharge permit system as the core” undertaken by the Tongxiang Branch of the Jiaxing Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau passed the expert acceptance. At the 2022 Provincial Environmental Assessment and Emission Permit Management and Party Style and Clean Government Construction Work Conference held at the end of November last year, Yao Weiping, director of the Tongxiang Branch, introduced typical experience as the only representative of digital reform.
When various places are building smart platforms in full swing, how can Tongxiang’s experience stand out? The relevant person in charge of the Tongxiang Branch said: “‘Early exploration, early practice, and iterative upgrading’ is our magic weapon. Tongxiang’s “digital environmental protection” reform work started relatively early. Since 2018, Tongxiang has actively carried out provincial-level law enforcement for pollution discharge permits. After the pilot work, the system has been continuously upgraded according to actual application needs. It has been optimized three times and three versions of the platform have been launched successively. The newly upgraded environmental supervision “super brain” will be launched in November 2022. The newly upgraded Tongxiang City The fixed pollution source supervision and law enforcement platform (hereinafter referred to as the “Smart Law Enforcement Platform”) with the emission rights permit system as the core has various functions such as precise supervision and considerate services.”
Multi-scenario applications ensure accuracy Supervision
“Based on the “Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Enforcement and Supervision of Pollution Emission Permits” issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, we sorted out the inspection content of pollution-producing units in key industries such as printing and dyeing, chemical industry, and papermaking, with a total of 6 major items and 49 minor items. , the inspection list for law enforcement based on pollution discharge licenses has been compiled and the contents of the list have been incorporated into the smart law enforcement platform.” Tongxiang City’s ecological environment law enforcement personnel said. Nowadays, law enforcement officers can receive law enforcement inspection tasks through the smart law enforcement platform, and enforce the law according to orders and in a targeted manner, which improves their ability to detect environmental problems. At present, 351 certified companies in the jurisdiction conduct self-inspections on a daily basis according to the checklist, and the local towns conduct monthly inspections of certified companies, effectively fulfilling the main responsibilities of the companies and local supervision responsibilities, forming a joint force for environmental protection.
List-based law enforcement is a new function of the smart law enforcement platform based on evidence-based supervision scenarios. In addition to the evidence-based supervision scenarios, the smart law enforcement platform is also divided into integrated evaluation and certificate, self-management with certificates, supervision and assistance, Three supervisors linkage and other scenes. In order to make supervision more accurate, the Tongxiang Branch, when leading the upgrade of the platform, newly set up two scenarios of integrated evaluation and certification and supervision based on evidence, and upgraded and optimized the three-supervisory linkage scenario.
In the license-based supervision scenario, in addition to checking the implementation of list-based law enforcement in real time, you can also check with one click the operation status of pollution control facilities of more than 300 companies that have completed the installation of working conditions and been included in the supervision. If there is In case of emergencies, the system will also provide early warning reminders to ensure the accuracy of law enforcement.
“Now, it is convenient and efficient to complete the evaluation procedures that originally took two runs in one run.” After the smart law enforcement platform was launched, the evaluation and cooperation of “Canal Cement” and “Zhejiang Coal Science and Technology” were successfully completed. The heads of the two companies who went through the formalities said with emotion. In the integrated assessment and certification scenario, Tongxiang incorporated data from the “Zheli Environmental Assessment” (provincial and departmental environmental assessment system) into the platform to timely track project access studies and judgments, environmental assessment approvals, and pollution discharge permit applications, reducing blind spots and achieving accuracy. The entire process of obtaining a license can be grasped in real time. Once an enterprise fails to approve production or the approval timeout occurs, the system will provide a real-time warning to ensure the accuracy and intensity of law enforcement.
The three-supervision linkage scenario is a new post-certification law enforcement mechanism that explores the “three-supervision linkage” of supervision, supervision, and monitoring. In the process of continuous upgrading, the smart law enforcement platform has made the supervision of fixed pollution sources more precise and improved regional environmental quality. Data show that as of November 2022, the proportion of Class III water in Tongxiang City’s water environment quality sections under municipal control and above accounts for 92.3%, the proportion of Class III water in provincial-controlled and national-controlled sections continues to be 100%, and the water quality of drinking water source areas reaches Class II According to national standards, the water quality assessment of cross-administrative region handover sections is excellent; the PM2.5 concentration is 25 μg/m^3, a year-on-year improvement of 3.8%, the air quality rate is 90.4%, and the ozone is 150 μg/m^3, both ranking first in Jiaxing region name. In 2022, Tongxiang City’s public satisfaction with the ecological environment improved to 12th in the province, and it continues to rank first in Jiaxing City. It has achieved “double improvement” in total score and ranking for five consecutive years, and the improvement rate is the first in the province.
Careful assistance demonstrates service temperature
“The alarm started on December 13, 2022, and lasted for 27 minutes, involving related abnormal equipment: condensers, fans, high-voltage static electricity, etc. , please check and restore in time.” Upon receiving the mobile phone text message reminder, the relevant person in charge of Tongxiang Rongxiang Dyeing and Finishing Co., Ltd. immediately went to the site to check the cause of the equipment failure, and after troubleshooting, the facility was put back into operation. The person in charge said that thanks to this smart law enforcement platform, they received several reminders last month. As soon as they received it, they immediately went to check whether there was a fault. Every time, it was timely and accurate, which prevented companies from not discovering it in time. Failure causes pollution prevention and control facilities to operate abnormally.
This is one aspect of the smart law enforcement platform providing considerate services to enterprises. Adhering to the purpose of “combining hardness and softness”, the smart law enforcement platform’s self-management with certificates and supervision and assistance scenarios are all designed to better serve enterprises.
In the self-management scenario with a license, each company under supervision needs to regularly check the operation of facilities, etc., and submit a management account. The system will conduct differentiated tracking and management of each enterprise’s sewage discharge status and self-monitoring implementation, and the system will automatically remind enterprises that have not submitted. In this scene, a ledger drying mechanism was also established to show�Announce the five companies with low submission rates, consolidate the main responsibilities of the companies, and hand over the unfinished companies to the local towns and streets to consolidate the local management responsibilities to better urge the companies to do self-examination and account submission .
In the supervision and assistance scenario, Tongxiang has explored and established a whole-process early warning mechanism. For issues such as excessive concentration of wastewater and gas, abnormal working conditions, and other issues, Tongxiang can form early warning information as soon as possible and automatically push it to the corporate environmental protection department. The person in charge reminds enterprises to detect and deal with it early. This scenario also provides expert services, publishing third-party service information, government-enterprise interaction channels, and sending laws, policies, and technology into enterprise services. Experts can answer questions for enterprises online, and regularly organize online learning of environmental protection-related laws and regulations. and testing. At the same time, the system has also developed functions such as online training and important notifications that have been read, such as reminders for reading in severe weather conditions such as typhoons, which can not only help companies improve their environmental management levels, but also help companies prevent unexpected environmental emergencies in advance.
The relevant person in charge of the Tongxiang Branch said: “Next, we will continue to deepen the digital reform of intelligent ecological and environmental governance, and integrate the iteratively upgraded new smart law enforcement platform with daily environmental law enforcement supervision and environmental services. Deeply integrate to improve work efficiency, and continuously discover problems and deficiencies in the actual application process, upgrade and optimize, integrate various smart platforms, create a more comprehensive ‘smart brain’, and continuously promote Tongxiang’s ecological and environmental law enforcement work Improve quality and efficiency.”
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