Sichuan Establishes the Ecological Environment Protection Committee
the people’s government of sichuan province2020-04-14

 In order to further enhance the organizational leadership on ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection, and effectively consolidate the ecological defenses in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, recently, the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province made the decision to establish Sichuan Provincial Ecological Environment Protection Committee and abolish the Leading Group of Sichuan Province for Ecological Civilization Construction. Peng Qinghua, Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, and Yin Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Governor of the People's Government of Sichuan Province, serve as directors of the ecological environment protection committee.

  The main responsibilities of the committee are to implement the policies, guidelines, decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection, to implement the deployments and arrangements of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province on ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection; to make comprehensive analysis on Sichuan's targets, major policies, programs and plans related to ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection; to coordinate and deal with major ecological environment protection issues; to guide, urge and supervise each city (autonomous prefecture) and relevant provincial departments to concentrate efforts on ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection; to promote Sichuan's institutional reform of the ecological environment protection management as a whole and coordinate major problems in the reform; to undertake other work on ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection assigned by the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province.

  Under the leadership of Sichuan Ecological Environment Protection Committee, there four working committees responsible for different fields, namely, green development, ecological protection and restoration, pollution control and agricultural and rural pollution control.

  The green development working committee is responsible for organizing and coordinating green development, and carrying out work to improve spatial layout, readjust industrial structure, shut down outdated production facilities, save resources and energy, recycle resources, develop clean energy, advocate low-carbon life, promote green consumption, support low-carbon travel, etc.

  The ecological protection and restoration working committee is responsible for organizing and coordinating the ecological protection and restoration, and carrying out work to safeguard ecological red lines, promote intensive afforestation throughout Sichuan, construct and manage nature reserves, exploit and protect natural resources, protect and restore water ecology, etc.

  The pollution control working committee is responsible for organizing and coordinating the prevention and control of air, water, soil and solid waste pollution, promoting the construction of the ecological environment risk prevention and control system, improving the ecological environment management system, and promoting the continuous improvement of Sichuan's ecological environment quality; organizing and carrying out the delimitation of the key areas for air pollution prevention and control, joint prevention and control, countermeasures for heavy air pollution, industrial pollution control, delicacy rural management, transportation structure improvement, countermeasures for climate change, etc.; organizing and carrying out work on water pollution control, implementation of river (lake) chief system, treatment of heavily polluted water bodies, protection of excellent water bodies, construction of sewage treatment facilities, treatment of urban black and odorous water bodies, management of environmental problems in drinking water sources, pollution control of underground water, etc.; organizing and carrying out classified management of farmland soil environment, management of heavily polluted farmland, major projects for soil environment management and protection, management and restoration of polluted land, garbage sorting and disposal, solid waste pollution prevention and control, capacity building of hazardous waste disposal, etc.

  The agricultural and rural pollution control working committee is responsible for organizing and coordinating the agricultural and rural ecological environment protection, and carrying out work on rural living environment improvement, livestock and poultry breeding pollution treatment, rural garbage collection, transportation and treatment, cleaning of agricultural production and ecologicalization of industry model, comprehensive utilization of straw, resource utilization of livestock and poultry feces, aquaculture pollution treatment, strict control and reduction of chemical fertilizer and pesticide, etc.