Ecology and Environment, recently went to Hunan Province to conduct a survey and found that there were problems such as cross-border mining, excessive mining and overtime mining in Bananhu sand mining area, yuanjiang City, Yiyang. Some sand dredgers have been carrying out sand mining operations outside the mining area for a long time, sometimes even crossing the border to the provincial nature reserve of South Dongting Lake without permission, resulting in the destruction of the reserve.
Illegal sand mining has always been prohibited by the state, but driven by huge profits, there are still people who commit crimes against the wind, which brings many hidden dangers to the protection of the ecological environment.
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What are the problems in Bananhu mining area?
Dongting Lake is located in the transitional zone between the eastern coastal areas and the central and western regions, the junction of the Yangtze River Open Economic Zone and the Coastal Open Economic Zone, with unique geographical advantages, profound cultural heritage and prominent ecological functions, shouldering the major responsibility of ensuring national food security and water ecological security in the Yangtze River Basin. During his visit to Hunan in 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the need to "do a good job in the ecological protection and restoration of Dongting Lake".
According to media reports, the Bananhu mining area in yuanjiang City is located in the old Hanshou River of Chishan Yangge, with a length of 9.91 kilometers, a total area of 3705 mu, a recoverable reserve of 10173 10000 tons, a total control of 38 million tons during the planning period, and an annual control of 9.5 million tons, which was formally exploited in accordance with the law on February 27, 2020. As of July 2022, there are 14 engineering sand dredgers, 287 sand and gravel carriers and more than 2000 employees in the mining area.
yuanjiang Municipal People's Government, in accordance with the principle of unified mining and operation of the government, designates Yiyang yuanjiang Xiaori Sandstone Management Co., Ltd., which is jointly established by Hunan yuanjiang Qionghu Investment, Construction and Development Co., Ltd. and Yiyang City Investment, to perform the duties of sand and gravel mining and operation. The sand mining area
of Banan Lake is adjacent to the provincial nature reserve of South Dongting Lake, and is one of the ten mining areas of Dongting Lake approved by Hunan Province. The reason why the minister's investigation was directed at the Banan Lake mining area was that through satellite remote sensing images and preliminary on-site arrangement, it was found that enterprises had cross-border mining, excessive mining and overtime mining, resulting in the destruction of the protected area.
Damage the coastline, destroy the ecology, affect biodiversity.. It can be said that illegal sand mining will bring multiple negative impacts on the ecological environment, river flood control and shipping safety. For
this reason, Huang Runqiu pointed out that local governments should earnestly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and instructions on the protection of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake, further improve their political standing, firmly establish and practice the concept that green water and green hills are Jinshan and Yinshan, and strengthen the protection and supervision of important ecosystems such as nature reserves. Illegal sand mining activities should be seriously investigated and punished in accordance with the law and regulations. We should earnestly learn from experience and lessons, draw inferences from each other, strictly abide by laws and regulations on ecological environment protection, and effectively protect the authenticity and integrity of important ecosystems.
On August 4, yuanjiang held a spiritual deployment meeting to convey and implement the relevant instructions of the main leaders of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. The meeting pointed out that we should deeply reflect on the current outstanding ecological and environmental protection problems, which exposed the poor political sensitivity of individual units in yuanjiang City, the weak sense of crisis, the lax supervision of departments, and the gap in the practice of new development concepts, which is a loud alarm bell for the whole city. The whole city should take this as a warning, face up to the problems and draw lessons profoundly, take the battle of pollution prevention and control as an important starting point, overcome difficulties and clear up "old accounts", make every effort to fight a "turnaround battle", carry out reforms without adding "new accounts", and work together to promote the work of defending the blue sky, clear water and pure land.
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How about the treatment of illegal sand mining in Dongting Lake? Since
2017, Hunan Province has taken the regulation of illegal sand mining in Dongting Lake area as a key point to protect the Dongting Lake Nature Reserve, and has taken a series of effective measures and achieved remarkable results. In August
2017, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government attached great importance to the problems related to the planning and approval of sand mining in Dongting Lake area, which violated the regulations of nature reserves, and deployed rectification measures. The Circular on the Comprehensive Prohibition of River Sand Mining Activities in Nature Reserves was issued, requiring all localities to stop all sand mining activities in nature reserves according to law. Three inspection teams were sent to the Dongting Lake area to conduct open and secret visits to inspect the implementation of the mining ban measures. Organize all localities to compile river sand mining plans (2017-2020) in accordance with the law and regulations, and designate all nature reserves as prohibited mining areas. In November
2018, Hunan Daily introduced the rectification of illegal sand mining in Dongting Lake in an article entitled "The chaos of illegal sand mining in Dongting Lake is no longer behind the" black hand "of" gold particles ". The article points out that "up to now, the waters of Dongting Lake Nature Reserve have been completely banned from mining, and 84 sand and gravel wharfs have been shut down.". The province has established an online monitoring system for sand and gravel mining, transportation and marketing, and the sand and gravel transportation transaction must provide proof of legal origin. In November
2019, Yueyang, Changde and Yiyang signed the Framework Agreement on Regional Joint Law Enforcement Cooperation in Dongting Lake Area, which clarifies the joint law enforcement mechanism of "who discovers, who enforces the law and who disposes of it", and ensures timely, efficient and accurate crackdown on illegal sand mining.
It should be said that under a series of measures, Hunan Province has achieved some results in the regulation of illegal sand mining in Dongting Lake, and has entered a new stage of normal supervision. Of course, in this process, there will still be some enterprises that violate laws and regulations driven by interests.
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How can local governments promote the orderly development of the sand and gravel industry? The
prohibition of illegal sand mining does not mean that the sand and gravel industry will no longer be developed, and the sand and gravel industry is still an important industry in some parts of Hunan Province. In July
2021, the Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission and other 14 departments issued the Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Healthy and Orderly Development of the Sand and Gravel Industry, which proposed to strengthen the comprehensive control of illegal sand mining. For illegal sand mining activities such as unlicensed sand mining and sand mining without permission, we should maintain a high-pressure situation, strengthen the connection of execution and intensify the crackdown. Strictly implement the source management of sand mining in rivers, strictly control the access of sand mining permits, strengthen the supervision of sand mining permits after the event, increase the disposal of unlicensed sand mining vessels, strictly prevent the rebound of illegal sand mining in rivers, maintain the order of sand mining in rivers throughout the province, and ensure ecological health.
It is necessary to rationally develop and utilize river sand and stone resources. Strengthen industry guidance, speed up the compilation and approval of sand mining planning for municipal and county-administered rivers, so as to ensure that all the plans should be compiled, examined and approved. On the premise of ensuring flood control, ecological and navigation safety, the mineable area, mineable period and mineable quantity should be reasonably determined, and the unified mining management of river sand should be encouraged and supported to promote intensive and large-scale mining. In April
2022, the Department of Water Resources of Hunan Province issued the Information Announcement on Environmental Impact Assessment of Sand Mining Planning for the Main Stream of Xiangzi, yuanli and Dongting Lake in Hunan Province (2023-2027), in which 39 mineable areas were proposed, with a planning period of 5 years and a total amount of 1.40264 billion tons of sand mining control during the planning period.
More than 100 million tons include 601.12 million tons in Changde City, 428.7 million tons in Yueyang City and 346.7 million tons in Yiyang City, with a total planned mining of 1.37652 billion tons, accounting for more than 98%. Other mining areas and output: 14.42 million tons in Changsha, 4.71 million tons in Hengyang, 4.5 million tons in Zhuzhou, 2.15 million tons in Huaihua and 350,000 tons in Shaoyang.
According to the Hunan Provincial Water Conservancy Work Conference held in March 2022, the 1.4 billion tons of sand and gravel will form a fiscal revenue of nearly 20 billion yuan per year and nearly 100 billion yuan in five years.
At present, most areas in Hunan Province have adopted policies and measures to nationalize the exploitation and operation of sand and gravel. How to curb the impulse of interests, strengthen the supervision of regular sand mining enterprises and avoid the destruction of nature reserves is a new topic for local governments.
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