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On March 1st, Sanmenxia City held a mobilization meeting for the 60 day campaign to tackle atmospheric pollution, issuing a mobilization order to the entire city, demanding that the whole city fight against the odds, overcome difficulties, and fight a nationwide war against environmental pollution within 60 days, resolutely reversing the unfavorable situation of backward environmental quality.

The meeting reported on the atmospheric environment situation in Sanmenxia City: Currently, the atmospheric environment in Sanmenxia City is extremely severe, with a significant decrease in the number of excellent days and an increase in the average concentration of PM2.5 compared to the same period last year. To achieve the environmental quality goals for autumn and winter, the task is very arduous.

The goal of the 60 day atmospheric campaign in Sanmenxia City is to fully complete the autumn and winter campaign tasks of 2018-2019, with a 4% year-on-year decrease in PM2.5 and a one-day reduction in heavy pollution weather.

In response to the actual characteristics of air pollution, distribution of pollution sources, and environmental supervision in the jurisdiction, Sanmenxia City has decided to concentrate its efforts, highlight key areas, and launch targeted and fierce actions to combat pollution from twelve aspects: strict peak production control actions, strengthening the peak production of key enterprises such as cement, casting, carbon, refractory materials, and corundum in the city, and fully implementing production suspension and restriction measures; Strict supervision and management of elevated source enterprises, with a focus on strengthening the supervision and management of coal-fired, spraying enterprises, and material storage yards, and resolutely banning "scattered and polluting" enterprises; Strengthen the control of scattered coal burning, lawfully ban all illegal scattered coal sales points, dismantle illegal scattered coal burning facilities, promote clean energy substitution, and resolutely prevent the inflow of scattered coal; Strictly implement dust control measures on construction sites, establish a dynamic management checklist for construction sites, strictly enforce systems such as resumption of work acceptance and "three personnel" management, and strictly implement the "six hundred percent" policy; Special rectification action for heavy-duty diesel vehicles, severely cracking down on illegal sales and use of vehicle fuel that does not meet the National VI standard; The road cleaning and control action, based on the "ten washes, two machine sweeps, and all day cleaning" of urban roads, will increase the number of road machine sweeps by 2-4 times a day and increase the number of road sprinklers by 2 times, effectively increasing the cleaning and cleaning efforts of major provincial trunk roads, and ensuring that roads are clean and dust-free; The city wide Clean City Action will continue to deepen the implementation of the "Clean City with Clean Governance and Deep Cleaning" Clean City Action, organizing various county (city, district) governments, township (street office), village (neighborhood) committees, relevant departments, etc. to carry out comprehensive cleaning actions; The motor vehicle ban and restriction action will be carried out for a period of one month. Heavy trucks and agricultural vehicles will be prohibited from entering the city for 24 hours, and illegal activities such as excessive emissions (emitting black smoke) and scattering will be strictly investigated; Oil quality control action, verifying the supply and sales of National VI gasoline and diesel. Those who fail to supply and sell National VI gasoline and diesel will be suspended for rectification, punished according to law, and have their licenses revoked; The control action of fireworks and firecrackers prohibition and restriction, expanding the prohibited areas for the sale and burning of fireworks and firecrackers, and including townships in the prohibited areas; Carry out a special rectification campaign for industrial enterprises, and comprehensively achieve the "five in place, one sealed" dust control standards for industrial enterprises in the city; The "Environmental Exposure Channel" was set up on Sanmenxia Television Station and Sanmenxia Daily to conduct a thorough investigation and investigation, focusing on exposing prominent issues such as ineffective environmental measures, inadequate problem rectification, slow progress, and disorderly behavior, and promoting the implementation of various measures for air pollution prevention and control.

Source: Environmental Protection Sanmenxia