The relationship between economic development and environmental protection
In the rapid development of the industrial economy today, the environmental problems have been more and more people's widespread concern. How to correctly deal with the relationship between economic development and environmental protection, to achieve both "win-win", has become an important issue facing the whole society **** with. This paper combines the actual town of Changshan County _, on the relationship between economic development and environmental protection to carry out a rough discussion.
A, _ town economic development and environmental protection of the current situation
Located in the "Chinese grapefruit township" of Changshan County, the northern suburbs of the _ town, Quzhou City, one of the four major towns, where there is a wealth of mineral resources, has now been proved to be 1 billion tons of limestone reserves, stone coal reserves of 300 million tons, whether in reserves or grade are the first in the province. or grade ranked first in the province. Relying on resource advantages, building materials, light calcium and other resource-consuming enterprises to develop rapidly, there are more than 96 industrial enterprises in the town, including 3 cement enterprises, 10 light calcium enterprises, 12 lime kilns, lime production and processing enterprises 20, etc., to 2005, the town's total output value of industrial production has reached 1.45 billion yuan, the industrial profits and taxes reached 38 million yuan. However, the rapid development of the industrial economy at the same time, but also brought a series of environmental problems, especially the original clay firing kilns, lime processing shed, a number of limestone and coal crushing point grinding point, eat into the ore, but also "spit" a lot of soot, coupled with the cement, light calcium enterprises, stone and coal mining enterprises, environmental protection investment and management is not in place! The town has become the province's famous pollution-hit area, the people suffer from environmental pollution, environmental pollution disputes occur frequently, greatly impeding the further sustainable development of the town's social and economic. The current economic development and environmental protection contradictions are mainly the following:
1, regional ecological environment awareness is weak. On the one hand, the local people's awareness of environmental protection is relatively weak, _ town decades of pollution status quo makes the local people are accustomed to environmental pollution, only when their own interests are directly harmed to seek compensation and protection; on the other hand, the vast majority of the local business owners lack of environmental awareness and sense of social responsibility, are not willing to environmental protection equipment to increase the investment and strengthen the management, and even regularly idle environmental protection On the other hand, the vast majority of local business owners lack environmental awareness and social responsibility, and are not willing to increase investment in environmental protection equipment and strengthen management, and even often leave environmental protection equipment unused and secretly discharged, often sacrificing and damaging the environment in order to maximize economic benefits. There are also many local grassroots town and village cadres whose awareness of environmental protection needs to be further improved.
2, economic development and ecological environmental protection is not coordinated. Mainly in the following areas: regional ecological damage is more serious; solid waste generation is too large and produce secondary pollution; resource destruction and waste is more serious; atmospheric environment, water environment pollution is more serious, poor environmental quality. However, the total regional economy is not strong, and the ability of sustainable development is poor, in 2002, the output of gdp per unit area was only 0.029 billion yuan/square kilometer, which belongs to an extremely low level.
3, the way of economic growth still belongs to the crude growth. _ town's economic growth mainly rely on traditional products and traditional production methods to grow, belongs to the crude growth. Performance: product quality is relatively poor, the technical level is relatively low, low value-added products; limestone resources are relatively abundant, but the mining, processing technology is relatively backward, serious environmental pollution and the existence of serious hidden dangers; enterprise scale is relatively small, not strong competitiveness.
4, resource-based industrial economy brings serious environmental pressure. With the increasing intensity of limestone development, cement, light calcium carbonate, lime and other industries continue to expand, especially the economic town strategy continues to promote the development of resource-based industrial development brings great opportunities, at the same time, the resource-based industrial economic structure of the environment to bring great environmental pressure, cement dust, noise pollution, calcium carbonate dust, sewage pollution, lime sulfur dioxide, solid waste pollution, limestone, stone coal and other Ecological damage caused by resource extraction, etc.
5, the government departments concerned poor management and law enforcement. As a large number of industrial enterprises, serious pollution, relatively more economically developed economic town of Quzhou City, there is no corresponding environmental protection management organization, the lack of corresponding full-time environmental protection personnel, the town government for many years of environmental protection work is more coordinated to deal with the masses of environmental pollution, disputes and to assist the Environmental Protection Bureau to carry out the work of collecting sewage charges; county environmental protection department's supervision and law enforcement forces are also relatively weak, the lack of specialized knowledge of environmental protection The county environmental protection department supervision and enforcement force is also relatively weak, the lack of professional knowledge of environmental protection staff and vehicles, it is difficult to cope with the increasingly serious state of environmental pollution, at the same time, law enforcement and management efforts are not enough, more lenient to environmental pollution behavior, resulting in the existence of enterprises, "the cost of violating the law is low, the cost of law-abiding is higher," the bad idea, the lack of better measures to promote the remediation of environmental pollution work.
Two, correctly handle the relationship between economic development and environmental protection countermeasures
Currently our country is in the rapid development of industrialization, in the environmental pollution, resource consumption peak, the environmental situation from the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society, there is a considerable gap between the requirements. My county identified "industrial county, characteristics of the development of" two major strategies, as a strong economic town, how to accelerate the development of the same time, effectively protect the environment and promote the harmonious development of man and nature, which is one of the most serious challenges. I thought, only firmly establish and seriously implement the scientific concept of development, through economic development to solve environmental problems, through the solution of environmental problems to promote development, take the development and environmental protection win-win road in order to achieve scientific development.
1, strengthen environmental awareness, establish ecological concept. To establish the "green mountains is the mountains of gold and silver" concept of environmental value, to achieve the environment in exchange for economic growth to the environment to optimize the transformation of economic growth. Green water and mountains means beautiful habitat, clean water and fresh air, can greatly reduce the direct and indirect losses caused by environmental pollution and ecological damage, greatly reduce the huge cost of pollution control and ecological restoration, greatly alleviate the ecological and environmental problems caused by various social conflicts, and maintain social stability. To fully understand the high degree of consistency between environmental protection and scientific development, correctly handle the relationship between the environment and construction, and establish the ecological concept of harmony between man and nature. "Environmental protection, education-oriented", we must vigorously popularize the scientific knowledge of environmental protection, improve the environmental awareness of the whole people, the scientific concept of coordinating the relationship between human beings and nature and the Chinese people's excellent tradition of caring for nature, thrift and frugality, through a variety of ways, popularize scientific knowledge, in the whole society to form an understanding of the national situation, cherish the environment, protect the ecology, Conservation of resources for the benefit of future generations, vigorously advocate eco-industry, eco-agriculture, eco-services, as well as eco-environment, eco-habitat and eco-cultural construction, abandon the blind pursuit of over-consumption, and advocate a correct way of life.
2, the environmental protection as an important part of decision-making, from the source to implement the basic state policy of environmental protection. Environmental protection from the source, the most important thing is that all levels of government, all levels of management, all levels of leadership to take up the responsibility of improving environmental quality and environmental management in accordance with the law, firmly establish the concept of scientific development, change the environmental factors outside the decision-making mode, the implementation of the environment and the development of integrated decision-making. At the same time, it is necessary to establish a correct view of political performance. To replace the traditional gdp accounting system with the green gdp accounting system, to incorporate environmental protection into the performance appraisal of governments at all levels, to educate cadres to set up a long-term, sustainable concept of performance, and to change the concept of performance that sacrifices long-term interests for short-term benefits. To establish the structure determines the efficacy of the macro-control concept, focus on adjusting the economic structure. At present, according to the town's resource endowment and environmental carrying capacity of different regions, to further clarify the optimization of the development, key development, restricted development, prohibited development of regional positioning, the formation of a clear functional positioning, development-oriented clear, standardized development order, economic development and population, resources and the environment in harmony with the scientific development of the new pattern of regional development. To focus on the rational adjustment of industrial and product structure, as soon as possible to change the high input, high consumption, high emissions, low efficiency of the crude mode of growth, to achieve the economic development of the "cage for birds", "Phoenix Nirvana".