Recently, severe haze weather has occurred multiple times in many parts of China. Zong Qinghou, a National People's Congress representative and chairman of Zhejiang Wahaha Group Co., Ltd., expressed his concern about environmental issues to reporters. London used to be known as a foggy city. Recently, I have been to London several times and found that the air is very good, the sunshine is bright, and there is no foggy city anymore. So I think that the problem of industrial pollution and air pollution caused by economic development must be solved. In terms of environmental protection, we also need to make up our minds to solve the problem of air pollution

At the first press conference of the annual meeting of the National People's Congress held on the morning of March 4th, spokesperson Fu Ying introduced that legislation on environmental protection is also a key task for the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in the future. In the legislative planning, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress regards environmental protection legislation as a top priority. For example, the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law and the Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Law, which are of great concern to the general public, are already in the planning stage. In addition, this year we will also launch a law enforcement inspection of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law. Based on this, we need to consider revising this law to provide legal protection for the control of haze. When it comes to environmental protection, Yang Zhen, a National People's Congress representative and president of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, immediately expressed concern. Looking into the reasons, he said that some shortcomings in China's environmental protection legislation, especially the failure to legislate environmental protection as a cohesive whole, are an important factor. The atmosphere, soil, and water resources are an organic whole in nature, and separate legislation that artificially divides them cannot achieve true governance. Therefore, Yang Zhen suggests that the legal system for environmental protection and governance should be improved first to reduce legal gaps. Relevant departments should accurately position the relationship between the prevention and control of air, soil, and water pollution, and integrate the management of air, soil, and water resources as a whole. Therefore, environmental legislation should also establish the concept of integrity

Chen Mengmeng, Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department, stated that there are indeed some prominent problems and challenges in promoting the construction of ecological civilization; The mode of economic development is still relatively extensive, the ecological debt is serious, the reasonable and effective mechanisms for promotion need to be deepened, and the system of performance evaluation is not perfect; Environmental protection is not something that can be achieved by a single department or simple measures to achieve overall governance effects. It needs to be combined with the overall efforts of a region, as well as with the leadership direction and focus of the municipal government; In terms of pollutant reduction, the power industry has specific policies, while non electric industries such as steel, cement, flat panels, and glass lack corresponding policy support; Improve the legislative system for ecological civilization, promptly introduce the newly revised Environmental Protection Law, accelerate the revision of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law, and quickly formulate and introduce the Soil Environmental Protection Law and Pollutant Discharge Permit Regulations.

The first session of the special training course on studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of speeches by the Ministry of Environmental Protection has opened in Beijing. All cadres of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, members of the leadership team of subordinate units in Beijing, and all students of the first special training course for department level cadres attended the report meeting. Zhou Shengxian, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, gave a special report on "Deeply studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of speeches to promote ecological civilization construction in the process of comprehensively deepening reform". Zhou Shengxian conveyed General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech at the special seminar on studying and implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and comprehensively deepening reform for provincial and ministerial level leading cadres at the training class, and gave a lecture on promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity in combination with the actual situation of environmental protection work. He said that the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform proposed at the Third Plenum is to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The national governance system and governance capacity are a concentrated reflection of a country's institutional and institutional implementation capabilities. The national governance system is the institutional framework for managing the country under the leadership of the Party, including various fields such as economy, politics, culture, society, ecological civilization, and Party building, as well as institutional mechanisms, legal and regulatory arrangements; National governance capability refers to the ability to use national systems to manage various aspects of social affairs, including reform, development, stability, domestic affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense, as well as the ability to govern the Party, the country, and the military. Specifically in the field of ecological environment protection, it is necessary to closely focus on building a beautiful China, deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system, accelerate the establishment of an ecological civilization system, improve the institutional mechanisms for land and space development, resource conservation and utilization, and ecological environment protection, and promote the formation of a new pattern of modernization construction with harmonious development between humans and nature. We must establish a systematic and complete ecological civilization system in accordance with the basic idea of strict prevention at the source, strict management of the process, and severe punishment of consequences. We must implement strict systems for source protection, compensation for damages, and accountability, improve environmental governance and ecological restoration systems, and use systems to protect the ecological environment.

Zhou Shengxian also made requirements for the trainees participating in the training class, hoping that everyone could concentrate, study with peace of mind, study hard, and put effort into understanding and comprehending.