Hebei should strive to get rid of the haze but coal was still on the rise

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According to the great wall network on Friday reported to crack down on environmental crimes, improve environmental quality in Hebei province, Hebei province, Hebei provincial public security Department, the environmental protection Bureau, Hebei provincial people's Procuratorate, the Hebei provincial higher people's Court decided that from now until April 30, 2016, in a province-wide joint "2015 sword to cut pollution" campaign.

This action will be aimed at stealing row of stealing and falsifying or tampering with environmental monitoring data companies, refused to implement environmental law administrative punishment decision of large-scale enterprises, cross-regional illegal discharges, disposal and treatment of hazardous waste crime gangs, arrested for corruption and bribery, dereliction or cover up condoning the State functionaries and other six categories of environmental crimes to crack down.

As environmental pollution province, Hebei province, apparently hoping such initiatives reduce environmental pressures.

On November 9 to 11th, the Hebei province Communist Party Committee adopted at the 12th plenary session of the CPC Hebei provincial Committee on the development of Hebei province, national economic and social development of the 13th five-year plan proposal (hereinafter referred to as the recommendations). A key element of the proposal is the effective environmental governance, air quality improved markedly higher than ever, polluted city to exit the national air quality 10-bit.

The past few years, due to the high proportion of heavy industry such as steel, and coal-fired capacity factors, air quality is very bad in Hebei province, air pollution in cities across the country, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Langfang city, Hebei province, Handan, xingtai, Baoding and other cities have been ranked among the worst 10 air pollution in big cities.

Facing huge environmental pressures, Hebei province has tried to adjust the industrial structure and reducing the amount of coal to improve air quality, but long-standing policy inertia and curing of local interests, policy adjustments between such efforts is difficult to achieve results.

The 21st century business Herald, a latest report on the introduction of opinion agreed that Hebei's economic growth target is not difficult to accomplish, and environmental governance more difficult than larger. The newspaper interviewed a professional who believes that this is mainly because of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei may increase energy consumption industries to, in addition to burning coal in rural areas is also a great deal of uncertainty.

The newspaper noted that a more worrisome problem is that coal prices are now falling, which makes coal-fired heating and electricity is much cheaper than burning gas. It is likely to interfere with the coal cut targets in the province.

Previously, air pollution prevention and control plans to implement a programme of action in Hebei province, Hebei coal consumption in 2017 than in 2012, a net reduction of 40 million tons. A private report showed that 70 women respondents

However, the 21st century business Herald found that the reality is that to date in 2015, coal consumption in Hebei province's 315 million tons in 2012, 302 million tons of coal consumption has increased.