Tanghe River in Henan Province： Focusing on Air Pollution Prevention and Improving County Environmental Quality

(Reporter Liu Lixin   Correspondent Niu Lingyun   Wang Lili)"In the past, the smoke and noisy noise of barbecue stalls on both sides of the road made it difficult for people to sleep. Now the barbecue stalls have entered the store and changed to electric barbecue, and finally they can sleep well at night." A few days ago, Mao Qiumei, who lives in tanghe county Oilfield Base, said with deep feelings.

Tanghe county Oilfield Base is a famous "barbecue street" in the local area. Many barbecue stalls have caused people’s disturbance, which makes the residents nearby miserable. In March this year, after receiving the feedback from the masses, the tanghe county Procuratorate immediately sent personnel to intervene in the investigation. After investigation, it was found that the restaurant in this street moved the barbecue stove out of the store for barbecue every night, and the stove did not take any measures to purify the oil smoke, and the smoke was directly discharged into the air.

In order to effectively solve the problem of open-air barbecue pollution, the hospital issued a pre-litigation procuratorial suggestion to the county urban management (law enforcement) bureau to urge it to perform its duties according to law. After receiving the procuratorial suggestions, the county urban management (law enforcement) bureau immediately investigated and standardized the management of open-air barbecues in fixed stores according to law, cleaned up and banned more than 60 illegal stalls for open-air barbecues, urged 507 catering units in urban areas to install fume purification facilities, and changed more than 210 barbecue stalls from carbon to gas and electricity.

Since the beginning of this year, according to the clues of public interest litigation with serious air pollution, tanghe county Procuratorate has focused on the problems based on its functions, found out the reasons and made classified policies, which has obviously improved the environmental quality of the county.

The hospital set up a task force to issue procuratorial suggestions to 4 townships and 5 related units for more than 30 outstanding common problems, and banned 47 "scattered and polluted" enterprises; In view of the large amount of coal used by coal-related production enterprises and the substandard emissions, the disorderly development of "scattered pollution" enterprises and the direct discharge of catering fumes, a research report will be formed in time and submitted to the county party Committee, county people’s congress and county government, and the county ecological environment bureau, urban management bureau and other departments will be urged to perform their duties according to law through procuratorial suggestions to ensure the overall promotion of air pollution control work.

In addition, the hospital has also established a working mechanism for linking administrative law enforcement and criminal justice with joint meetings, information sharing, clue transfer, and consultation and supervision of major cases, and strengthened contact and cooperation with county natural resources bureau, ecological environment bureau and other units to dig deep into the clues of filing supervision. Up to now, the institute has issued 15 pieces of procuratorial suggestions to 12 functional departments including the county ecological environment bureau, urged administrative organs to dismantle 3 commercial coal-fired boilers, investigated and dealt with 30 illegal sales of fireworks and firecrackers, stopped production and rectified 2 large household coal users, and controlled dust on 30 construction sites.

(Original title: Roadside barbecues that have caused headaches for residents have disappeared   Tanghe River, Henan Province: Focusing on Air Pollution Prevention and Improving County Environmental Quality)