On October 20, Hongkou held an ecological environment protection conference. District Party Chief Li Qian attended the meeting and delivered a speech, while Lu Ming, Deputy Chief of the CPC District Committee and District Governor, presided over the meeting. Also attending were Zhu Qinhao, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress, Shi Baozhen, Chairman of the CPPCC District Committee, and Guan Yetong, Standing Member of the CPC District Committee and Deputy District Governor.
Li Qian said that we need to improve our position, gather consensus, and have a deeper understanding of the significance of ecological civilization’ building with higher political consciousness. The ecological civilization put forward by Xi Jinping has provided fundamentals for our ecological protection. In the new era, Hongkou would build an important display window of the Chinese-style modernization, firmly highlight building a beautiful Hongkou for implementing the decisions and deployments made by the CPC Central Commission and the CPC Shanghai Committee, put building a beautiful Hongkou into the layout of Hongkou’s modernization, prioritize building a beautiful Hongkou for meeting the people’s livelihood. And it would deeply implement the ecological civilization thought of Xi Jinping, continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of the ecological civilization’s building, and accelerate the building of a beautiful homeland characterized by harmony between humanity and nature.
Li Qian emphasized that we need to focus on key areas, improve quality and efficiency, and consciously and comprehensively strengthen the construction of a beautiful Hongkou with higher actions. Efforts should be made to strengthen source governance, systematic governance, and risk management, and persistently fight the battle against pollution prevention and control. Besides, we will comprehensively accelerate the transformation of green and low-carbon industries, strengthen energy conservation and carbon reduction, improve refined management of carbon emissions, and continuously cultivate new driving forces for green and low-carbon industries. Efforts should be made to enhance ecological service functions, continuously expand ecological space, improve the quality of ecological services, and strengthen biodiversity protection. We should deeply adhere to the new style of low-carbon life, seriously implement the requirements in the reply letter of Xi Jinping, consistently sort out waste and vigorously advocate a green life style. Moreover, we should firmly adhere to the bottom line of ecological and environmental safety, ensure the safety of drinking water supply, strengthen hazardous waste supervision, enhance emergency response capabilities of the ecological environment, and guarantee the safe operation of urban areas.
Li Qian said that we should strengthen the organization, comprehensively coordinate for cooperation, and consciously gather joint forces for joint management with a higher sense of responsibility. Efforts should be made to improve the responsibility chain, and comprehensively improve the ecological environment management. Moreover, we should strengthen support and guarantee, pay attention to coordinating resources in various fields, gather forces from all aspects, and combine the rule of law, the market, the technologies, and the policies. Furthermore, we should strengthen supervision and rectification, focus on the ecological problems that the people are concerned about, carry out comprehensive, three-dimensional, and multi-level screening and rectification, and immediately identify and correct existing problems and plug loopholes. Finally, we should actively publicize and guide, carry out various forms of ecological civilization publicity, guide the whole society to consciously fulfill its environmental responsibility, and form a good social atmosphere.
The meeting conveyed the requirements of the Municipal Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference and reported on the ecological and environmental protection work in the district. The District Ecological Bureau, the North Bund Sub-district, and Urban Development Company delivered speeches as well.