On March 24, the provincial conference on sand mining management in the Yangtze River was held in Chizhou to analyze the situation and tasks, arrange for the deployment of key work in 2023, and discuss the legislative revision of sand mining management in Anhui Province. Xu Weiguo, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Department, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Hu Junbao, deputy mayor of Chizhou City, delivered a speech. Shi Zhigang, director of the Department's River and Lake Management Office and first-level investigator, presided over the meeting. Liu Pinggang, Director of the Sand Management Bureau of the Yangtze River Commission, First-level Investigator, Xiang Jihong, Second-level Investigator, and Liu Li, Director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the Bureau, attended the meeting. Liu Dongfeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Bureau, made a work report.
The conference fully affirmed the achievements made in the management of sand mining in the Yangtze River in Anhui Province in recent years. The meeting pointed out that we should earnestly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on water control, take strengthening the management of sand mining in the Yangtze River as a practical action to implement Xi Jinping's thought of ecological civilization, and earnestly fulfill our duties, work hard and achieve results.
The meeting emphasized that we should fully understand the harm of illegal sand mining, fully implement the responsibility of sand mining management, and always maintain the situation of high-pressure and severe crackdown on illegal sand mining. We should further deepen the cooperation among departments, form a joint force of law enforcement and supervision with unified upper and lower levels, regional coordination and department linkage, and severely punish illegal sand mining according to law. We should unify the thinking and understanding of the prohibition of mining in the Yangtze River and concentrate on the management of the prohibition of mining in the Yangtze River. We should strengthen the control of the source of sand mining management, continue to intensify the dismantling and banning of "three nothingness" and invisible sand mining vessels, continue to rectify the phenomenon of illegal barge, and strictly implement the management system of sand and gravel mining and transportation. It is necessary to strengthen the team and capacity building and improve the ability of law enforcement in sand mining management. We should strengthen the education of honest and clean government warning. To build a loyal, clean and responsible team of river sand mining supervision and law enforcement. Comrades in charge of water conservancy bureaus of five cities
along the Yangtze River, sand mining management agencies of cities and counties, and sand mining management and law enforcement brigades attended the meeting. Five units such as Anqing City and Tongling Water Conservancy Bureau made exchanges and speeches, and Susong County Government made statements.