According to statistics, in the past 20 years, the amount of sewage discharged from the Yellow River has doubled, with dozens of important tributaries losing water to sewage ditches, and nearly 40 percent of the mainstream of the river.
China's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" explicitly calls for a 10% reduction in national emissions of major pollutants by 2010 compared with the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, which means an average of 2% cuts per year starting in 2006, with 2007 being an important The year 2007 is an important and critical period.
"We live here 10 years or more less." Near the junction, the town of Gongwusu in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, a cab driver grumbled helplessly as the black smoke glowed in front of him. His secondary through 109,108 national highway Ningxia Shizuishan City or Inner Mongolia's Dongsheng and other destined, ubiquitous sky thick dark clouds of black smoke, the sun is hidden from view, in broad daylight when walking on the road, should be traveling lights. "He added.
It is understood that in recent years some high energy consumption, high pollution of calcium carbide, coke, ferrosilicon and other enterprises have been established in the local "three wastes" pollution has a far-reaching impact on the lives of local residents.
On April 26, deputy director of Gongwusu Township, village, village Yuan Guangshen returned to the village, relocated after the previous mess. Wuhai Xilaifeng Industrial Park development, people who also all moved away. "Said Yuan Guangshen North Village is the only agricultural production in Gongwusu Township famous village, food production in small villages and vegetable supply with the surrounding factories and mines. East of the village, the western Ordos Grassland across the Yellow River is the boundless desert Alxa. BR />
It has been reported that since 2001, nearly two million acres of grassland north of the village industrial park occupies the land with the construction of the industrial park, hundreds of furnaces emitting black smoke, dirty air filled the entire hamlet. Local crops of air pollution the most direct harm: tomatoes, eggplants and other fruits and black spots and rotting phenomenon, do not sell vegetables. "But we did not get compensation until shortly before the district reached an agreement on compensation. "Said Yuan Guangshen people moved out of the factory, but left the land cultivated for generations, we did nothing.
Formerly, the village, deep in the desert and on the edge of the steppe, did not do is terminally ill. Since 2003, the village and more people died of cancer and other diseases. "If you catch a windy day, better, or a house full of choking nose smell." Yuan Guangsheng started the factory shook his head and said, "Today, most of us suffer from respiratory diseases."
The industrial park reaches peaks west of Wuhai City, Ordos City and Alashan League, at the junction of a number of industrial parks. Around the year 2000, 3 such games, such as the narrow strip of tens of kilometers on both sides of the Yellow River on the competition to open industrial parks, without exception, are high-energy-consuming, high-polluting enterprises as the main object of the introduction. The Gongwusu Town Development Zone, Uda Industrial Park, Ustai Industrial Park, Alashan Left Banner Industrial Park, Checkerboard Well Industrial Park crowded in the southwest region of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia junction of the small & lt; BR / Checkerboard Well Industrial Park occupies the land was originally the E Albas Albas Sumu, E Albas Sheep Ertuq Gaba, ranch, where the production. "In 2004 a year, the family's sheep died about a dozen, black cashmere." The side of the side of the Mongolian herdsman Wang Jira said. More than 200 sheep near more than 20 gold-plated emission of black smoke chimneys difficult to feed, a long black dragon extends more than a kilometer on the side of the road. "This was originally a riverbed because last year, nearby calcium carbide plant waste and slag was here. "He said. East, less than two kilometers away, is a fence around a nature reserve. Wangila is holding on to the few remaining fields in the ? Industrial pollution of several herdsmen of Albas herders abandoned their flocks and migrated to towns dozens of kilometers away, in order to make a living. ", They probably don't have Albas sheep." Wangila lamented.
Gongwusu to the southwest 10 kilometers away from the town is known as the town of La Monastery, the town to develop a certain chemical plant, chemical plant has now been sold to the owner of Guangdong, equipped with a thermal power plant: wastewater along the level of the pond, top-down process, and finally with the Yellow River trucks loaded with the waste of the chemical plant discharged into a deep ditch dumped in the low-lying pits, not far away from the Yellow River chemical plant's own train station, parked a few waiting for the to be loaded onto the line of four-wheeled wagons, which are boldly labeled, "Dangerous Goods, Toxic!"
Southwest of the plant, Shizuishan City, Riverside Industrial Park, countless chimneys lined with thick smoke, and smoke pressure on the Yellow River, there is also almost no blue sky. "Our fruit trees become discrete molds of existence every year," Tianan Poria, a Shizuishan City garden forestry worker, said his contracted fruit trees have died for four years in 60 factories, factories smoking hot yellow turbid wastewater discharged directly into the Yellow River, the field orchards rely on the Yellow River water for irrigation every year.
In the second half of 2006, the local environment, in accordance with the State Environmental Protection Administration Supervision Bureau, "Shizuishan City, Wuhai City, around the high-energy environmental pollution problems reflecting the letter" of the letter, the complaint referred to the requirements of the dozens of enterprises present to make a rectification, shut down a number of small earth coke, sodium silicate of the environmental pollution, such as the "fifteen small". "Fifteen small" enterprises. "A lot of factories closed, go to another place to set up" environmental protection officials admitted that the current situation is not optimistic.