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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 29, the first question: the draft of the draft law on soil pollution prevention and control "poison" four key directions

Xinhua News Agency "Xinhua point of view" reporter

In recent years, cadmium, poison ginger and other food safety incidents triggered public concern about the "poison" issue. Recently, China's first soil pollution prevention and control of the special law - "People's Republic of China Soil Pollution Prevention Law (Draft)" submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for consideration.

This law reveals the future of China's prevention and control of soil pollution which focus on the direction?

Direction one: how to control crops due to soil pollution "poison"? Prevention-based classification control

In recent years, many of the exposed food safety incidents are related to the soil, how to protect food and vegetables from "poison" pollution?

The draft plan clearly stipulates the principle of "prevention first and protection priority", emphasizing the establishment of a monitoring system, and will regularly carry out the coordination and evaluation of cultivated land and agricultural products as the competent legal obligations, and put forward the provisions of the control unit farmland pesticide, fertilizer use Quantity and other measures to protect the soil ecological environment. The draft also distinguishes between agricultural land and construction land on the characteristics of different types of land, and is divided into two categories of risk management and rehabilitation of soil pollution.

[Interpretation] Zhejiang University School of Environment and Resources Professor Zhu Lizhong said that the safety of the soil environment directly affect the safety of agricultural products. In the past, China's soil pollution monitoring and early warning system is weak, the draft to strengthen the role of soil environmental monitoring and early warning, so that "the whole process of protection" agricultural products can be achieved.

Guangdong Provincial Institute of Eco-Environmental Technology researcher Chen said that in general, acidic soil heavy metals in the soil more easily absorbed by crops. Therefore, by controlling the use of pesticides, the total amount of fertilizer to avoid soil acidification, is to reduce the output of cadmium rice, poison ginger key.

Zhou Jing, a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the draft was also classified on the soil, which solved the problem of mixed land use restoration with land use and could be used to repair land for different uses.

Direction two: how to avoid "poison" the "secondary pollution"? Standard repair links

?Question? In last year's Jiangsu Changzhou foreign language school "poison" incident, although the school environment is safe, but near the contaminated block in the early repair process there are improper emissions and other issues. How to avoid "poison" affect people's living environment?

The draft of the draft is clearly included in the pollution control and rehabilitation of the land pollution control, and the local government shall not approve it as a land for residential, public management and public services, and require the evaluation and filing of the repair effect of the construction land; The person responsible for pollution or the owner of the land use right shall entrust the environmental supervision organ to carry out environmental supervision on the rehabilitation activities.

[Interpretation] China Law Society Environmental Resources Law Research Association President Cai Shouqiu said that land resources are valuable, so even if the pollution plots will not be completely abandoned. The draft provides a legal guarantee for the public to effectively avoid pollution against different types of soil "secondary pollution".

Guangdong Beiyuan Detection Technology Co., Ltd. General Manager Xu Ruijie said that we have many years of soil testing work found that many of the boundaries to be contaminated pollution sites are not clearly marked, nor take effective control measures. The draft clearly stipulates the soil repair activities and supervision of the responsible party, is conducive to blocking the "secondary pollution."

Zhou Jing said that the domestic soil repair technology has just started, and most of the laboratory stage, in large-scale engineering applications may be "secondary pollution." The draft for the first time clear the "secondary pollution" of the illegal circumstances and illegal costs, a clear plot can be a serious 200,000 to 100 million fine, deterrent efforts.

Direction three: how to solve the historical legacy of "poison" governance? Clear responsibility and money

?Problems? soil pollution is concealed, hysteresis, cumulative, regional and other characteristics, accountability and cost recovery difficult, resulting in some historical legacy "poison" unmanned situation.

The draft stipulates that the draft system establishes the institutional framework for the responsibility of the people responsible for the pollution of the soil, the land use right and the government in the order of the government; and proposes to solve the problem of soil pollution through various channels and various ways, including the establishment of the central and provincial soil Pollution prevention and control fund, to the responsible person to recover and so on.

[Interpretation] Julie said that the draft of the local people's government as a complex cause of "poison" repair "pocket", national, provincial level fund as the repair of the economic subject, to avoid the past such a polluted soil due to the main body of responsibility is unknown, Recovery is not in place lead to repair is not timely situation. The draft should be binding, urging the local government should be established as soon as possible with their own situation in line with the funding policy, to avoid "bad checks."

Xu Ruijie said that environmental technology enterprises into large, slow return, most companies need financial support.

Direction four: how to get the public to obtain pollution "right to know"? Later or can access, download

?Problems? Soil pollution prevention and control requires the participation of the general public has become a consensus. How to protect the national security, social stability under the premise of the public to meet the information on the right to know the soil pollution?

The draft of the draft regulations clearly, the competent departments at all levels of the environment responsible for the release of the corresponding level of soil environmental information and bulletins; provincial people's governments above the environmental protection departments should be published on its website soil pollution risk control standards, soil pollution investigation technical specifications Relevant information for the public free access, download; at the same time to the public announcement of soil pollution prevention and control methods to facilitate public reporting.

?Interpretation? Chen Nong said that the draft actively responded to the people's intellectual appeal, so that the public through effective access to timely access to the authority of the soil environment information.

Cai Shouqiu said that the draft proposed to publish the key control of the soil toxic and hazardous substances directory and timely updates, the establishment of soil environmental information and data sharing mechanism and other initiatives to help the formation of soil pollution prevention and control of public participation mechanism.

Zhou Jing said that the relevant provisions of the draft, for information disclosure has taken a big step. However, how to open, open to what extent and so need to refine. (Reporter Yuan Huijing, Jie Wenjin, Wu Shuguang, Zhao Xiaoshuai, Gao Jing)

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