Managing Water in accordance with the Law and Strengthening Judicial Cooperation in the Yellow River Basin: A Record of the Joint Efforts of Prosecutors and River Affairs Departments in Henan and Shandong Provinces to Protect the Yellow River
2023-04-17
As the mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yellow River has nurtured a brilliant and splendid Chinese civilization. Protecting the mother river is a grand plan for the great rejuvenation and sustainable development of the Chinese nation. On April 1st of this year, the Yellow River Protection Law was officially implemented. Recently, the reporter followed the themed interview team organized by the Ministry of Water Resources to visit the Henan and Shandong sections of the Yellow River, experiencing the long river in spring and exploring the legalization trajectory of Yellow River governance and protection. The Yellow River is becoming a happy river that benefits the people. Promoting deeper judicial cooperation, Weishan Irrigation District in Liaocheng, Shandong is the largest irrigation district in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. On March 20th of this year, a special proliferation and release activity was held at the head of the Weishan Irrigation District and Weishan Wetland Park. Personnel from the procuratorates at the two levels of Liaocheng City and Donga County, as well as water conservancy and Yellow River affairs departments, as well as representatives of the National People's Congress, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and surrounding people, participated in the event and jointly witnessed the public interest litigation defendant Li and three others dropping over 2300 voluntarily purchased fish fry into the water. The reporter learned that in recent years, the Donga County Procuratorate has found in handling cases involving excessive logging, illegal logging, and illegal occupation of forest land in the Yellow River Basin that although the responsible person has taken on the responsibility of restoring and replanting trees, due to seasonal factors, small area of the involved forest plot, or changes in use, tree replanting cannot be carried out in a timely manner, and the execution has come to a halt, which to some extent restricts the ecological protection work in the Yellow River Basin. To this end, the Donga County Procuratorate, based on its procuratorial function and implementing the concept of restorative justice, has collaborated with the County Court, County Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, County Yellow River Affairs Bureau, and other departments to promote the establishment of a procuratorial public welfare ecological restoration base on the banks of the Yellow River. By establishing a public welfare ecological restoration base for prosecution, the responsible persons involved can replant trees, restore ecology, and fulfill judgments within the base, which not only solves the problem of difficult replanting trees, but also strengthens the protection of the ecological environment on both sides of the Yellow River. "Zhao Hongtao, Deputy Prosecutor General of Dong'a County Procuratorate, introduced that since 2022, the court, in conjunction with departments such as the Yellow River Affairs Bureau, has organized replanting and greening in the public welfare ecological restoration base for prosecution, More than 1400 replanted seedlings. The reporter noticed that Article 105 of the Yellow River Protection Law stipulates that the state strengthens the construction of judicial protection in the Yellow River Basin, organizes judicial cooperation in the Yellow River Basin, promotes coordination between administrative law enforcement agencies and judicial agencies, and encourages relevant units to provide legal services for the ecological environment protection of the Yellow River Basin. This regulation not only provides a platform for the cooperation and cooperation between water administrative law enforcement agencies and judicial organs, but also provides strong legal guarantees for promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, "said Zhang Daoqiang, the leader of the Water Administration Supervision Brigade of Dong'a Yellow River Affairs Bureau. Zhang Daoqiang has been fighting hard on the front line of law enforcement for a long time. On April 1st, he also participated in a joint promotion activity of the Yellow River Protection Law carried out by the Dong'a Yellow River Affairs Bureau, local judicial bureaus, courts, procuratorates, etc., to promote the coordination and cooperation between administrative law enforcement agencies and judicial agencies. According to the relevant person in charge of the Shandong Yellow River Affairs Bureau, in September 2021, the bureau, in conjunction with the Shandong Provincial Procuratorate, jointly issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Cooperation and Cooperation to jointly promote the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin", improving the mechanism for connecting ecological and environmental public interest litigation and water administrative law enforcement in the Yellow River Basin; In March this year, the bureau collaborated with the Shandong Provincial Public Security Bureau
Edit:Ying Ying Responsible editor:Shen Chen
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