Elaborately Promoting environmental improvement along the River to Create "Qinhuai River Basin Garden" in Nanjing

Large-scale dredging was carried out at Dongshuiguan in Qinhuai District in April. Over a two-month period, 53,000 cubic metres of silt was removed. Thereafter, water was replenished through the Crescent Lake and the Outer Qinhuai River, with a daily water supply of 40,000 tons. The project was completed early last month. The end of the East Shuiguan water environment comprehensive improvement project, marking the end of the Qinhuai River regulation project, also means that the Qinhuai District water environment management toward "2017 flood before elimination of black odor, 2020 to achieve clear water bank green scenery beauty" a solid step.

Qinhuai District water Bureau deputy Director Ding Bing told reporters, Qinhuai District developed water system, there are inside and outside the Qinhuai River, grain river, Friendship River and other 64 rivers, lakes and ditches, water area of 3 square kilometers, the total length of the river 98 kilometers. Affected by water environment pollution and ecological degradation, the overall water quality of the region is poor before the 13th Five-Year Plan, most of the water quality is below the five categories, and the water environment situation is very severe.

"Water environment construction is an important part of the five-sphere integrated national development strategy, which is related to the region's economic and social development and the livelihood and well-being of one million people. The District Party Committee and the district government have always attached great importance to, resolutely implemented the deployment and requirements of The State Council, provincial and municipal water environment management work, and made water environment management a political task. They put forward the strategic concept of "creating a garden in the Qinhuai River system" and established the principle of "basically eliminating black odor in 2016, eliminating black odor before flood in 2017, and basically completing the rain and pollution diversion project in 2018. To achieve the overall goal of stable water quality by 2019 and clear water, green scenery and beautiful scenery by 2020. Centering on the realization of this strategic deployment and goal, the whole region is vigorously promoting the work of water environment management with a state of unity and determination to overcome difficulties." "Said Ding Bing.

According to reports, since this year, Qinhuai District has organized to carry out the river project, rain and pollution diversion, blue line surrender, drainage household renovation, river chief system implementation and other "five key battles". A total of 194 discharges along the river were rectified, 207 illegal constructions were demolished, 79 expropriated and 39 surrendered within the Blue Line along the river, covering a total area of more than 70,000 square meters. A total of 1.2 million square meters of silt has been removed, and ecological improvement has been completed in clear water ponds and the sub-branch of the outer Qinhuai River. At present, all the rectification work is carried out according to plan and orderly, and the water quality of the main water system is basically stable. The Qingshui Pond and the Crescent Lake have become "business cards of Nanjing". They have received inspection visits from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Water Resources, and leaders of relevant departments in Shanghai, Shandong and Jilin provinces, and have been fully recognized.

In order to effectively implement the "scientific water control", Qinhuai District and experts from Hohai University jointly formulated the Three-year Plan for the Comprehensive Management and Protection of River and Lake Systems in Qinhuai District, and invited industry experts and scholars to conduct field research on each river and hold symposia to sort out the crux and key points of the management and protection of each river and formulate solutions. The formation of "one river and one policy", and issued construction units to implement. In terms of long-term management, the "five-in-one" management mode is actively promoted, and five management contents, including water surface cleaning, bank slope municipal facilities maintenance, landscape greening, surrounding environment cleaning and ecological conservation, are implemented synchronously and uniformly by the management units to further improve the system and work efficiency of management and maintenance. Attaching importance to hierarchical management, the Qinhuai District issued the Plan for the River Chief System, in which each district leader is assigned a river channel and serves as the district river chief, establishing a work system of "five rivers and two officers" covering 26 rivers from top to bottom (district river chiefs, sub-district river chiefs, community river chiefs, folk river chiefs, river police officers, river cleaners and social supervisors). Improving the working mechanism of "a daily river patrol, a daily outlet, a daily report of the situation", forming a work pattern of level by level and level by level, and playing a prominent role in promoting river regulation, coordinating problems, strengthening supervision and so on.

We will intensify comprehensive law enforcement. On the one hand, the solid implementation of dismantling work, open up the Mingyu River, the eastern section of the inland river, the middle section of the inland river river blue line, strong demolition of Jindingwan, Ruixin Lanting and other places in the blue line illegal construction, back to the length of the river more than 2 kilometers, along the river walk basically realized comprehensive penetration, laying the foundation for the river landscape construction; On the other hand, carry out in-depth drainage household rectification action, with small catering household drainage renovation as the focus, increase the intensity of inspection, more than 1800 small catering households in the area for inspection, issued more than 1650 notices of rectification, issued 59 drainage permits, ban unlicensed small catering 13 households, closed the door 7 households, investigate and punish night Shanghai, power construction real estate and other illegal drainage cases 54, Effectively curb the occurrence of private row random connection phenomenon.

Source: Nanjing Daily, June 16, 2017