Rectify the corruption and style of work behind ecological and environmental protection cases Guard the Peach Blossom Land Lu Jiarong, website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission The current situation of the forest land illegally occupied in Dafu river basin after rectification. On July 11, the discipline inspection and supervision cadres of Changde City, Hunan Province inspected the rectification of early-stage problems in Dafu river. (picture provided by Changde Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision) The Yangtze River economic belt is not only an economic development belt with great potential, but also an ecological barrier belt related to the misfortunes and blessings of future generations. However, ecological problems such as illegal sand mining and sand making still occur from time to time. Recently, the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision publicly announced six typical cases of ecological and environmental problems in the Yangtze River economic belt, and a total of 120 public officials were held accountable for dereliction of duty. Among them, Taoyuan Yisheng building materials factory has successively engaged in breeding, illegal sand mining and sand making in the forest land illegally occupied in the Dafu River Basin, and the damage to the ecological environment is noticeable. Long term illegal occupation of forest land in Taohuayuan scenic spot for sand making has caused serious ecological damage to vegetation On January 28, 2022, the Standing Committee of the Hunan provincial Party committee collectively watched the "2021 Yangtze River Economic Belt ecological environment warning film", which revealed the illegal sand mining and other problems of Yisheng building materials factory in Dafu River Basin, Guanyinsi Town, Taoyuan County. According to the special deployment of the Standing Committee of the provincial Party committee, the supervision committee of the provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection arranged the scheduling overnight and assigned it to the supervision committee of the Changde Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection to quickly follow up the investigation and disposal, supervise and promote the implementation of the rectification of relevant problems. "On January 29, the Secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection took us out of the snow to inspect the situation on the spot." Chen long, a staff member of the Changde Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision, told reporters that after the problem was exposed, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision, together with the Taoyuan County Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision, set up an investigation team and rushed to the scene immediately to carry out the investigation. Taoyuan held an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the county Party committee overnight to study the rectification plan, requiring continuous operation and full rectification. The joint investigation team found that by the Dafu stream of the Yuanjiang River, within the planning scope of the Taohuayuan scenic spot with beautiful scenery and dense vegetation (level III Protection Zone), sand and gravel raw materials and sand making and sand transportation equipment were stacked everywhere, 17 mu of loess was exposed, the mountains were artificially damaged, and the company's factory buildings were built near the river. The joint investigation team promotes the investigation and disposal work in a special mode. Through field surveys, visits to the masses, and data collection, it was found that a private enterprise called Yisheng building materials factory has long occupied the forest land within the planning scope of Taohuayuan scenic spot, and its actual controller, Yin, has been engaged in breeding, sand mining and sand making activities. "According to regulations, scenic spots shall not build projects that damage the landscape and pollute the environment." Chen Long said that India has been engaged in the construction industry for a long time, and is well aware of the large demand and good market for sand and gravel. In order to facilitate the direct processing of river sand into fine sand and reduce transportation costs, so as to make huge profits, India decided to take risks and set the plant near the dafuxi sand mining area. Lax examination and approval, and corruption and style of work are hidden behind dereliction of duty and responsibility During the interview, the investigators repeatedly mentioned "dereliction of duty and responsibility" to reporters. The joint investigation team combed the illegal production and operation process of an Indian since 2009 and found that the lax examination and approval of relevant leading cadres of forestry, natural resources and other departments, urban investment companies, and local Party committees and governments, as well as weak supervision and law enforcement, were the important reasons for the occurrence and continuation of this illegal act. After comprehensive verification, the behavior of the responsible person, such as lax control, exposed the problem of false style. Focusing on the key issues assigned by the provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision, the joint investigation team organized capable forces to work overtime to carry out investigations, carefully sorted out and analyzed various evidence materials, and some party members and cadres' examination and approval became formalistic, accepting entrustment and other issues surfaced. In October, 2018, an Indian applied for temporary land use in the name of a 600000 ton machine-made sand production project gravel yard. Article 26 of the regulations on scenic spots promulgated by the State Council in September 2006 clearly stipulates that mining and other activities that damage the landscape, vegetation and landform are prohibited in scenic spots. The temporary land applied by an Indian belongs to forest land and is located within the planning scope of Taohuayuan scenic spot, which should not have been licensed. However, some staff members in Guanyinsi town were careless in supervision and failed to find that this temporary land was located within the planning scope of Taohuayuan scenic spot, which led to the application of Mr. Yin being "deceived" and being openly mixed into the approval process of the county forestry bureau. In order to pass his application as soon as possible, Mr. Yin came up with the idea of "asking for help". He found Xiong, then Secretary of the Party committee of Guanyinsi Town, and asked him to say hello to the county forestry bureau. Due to the situation, the relevant personnel of the county forestry bureau signed the principled opinion of "agreeing to handle in accordance with the law and regulations" on the approval form, but did not issue the examination and consent document. However, this principled opinion plays an important role in the approval of temporary land use. The joint investigation team found that after the county natural resources bureau accepted the approval, the leader in charge Guan and the director of the administrative examination and approval Office Zhang signed and sealed the "consent to submit" opinion on the "Declaration Form for temporary land use in Taoyuan County" submitted by Yisheng building materials factory without seeing the approval document of the county forestry bureau, and then submitted it to the county people's government for approval. In January 2019, Yisheng building materials factory was approved for illegal temporary land use. Negligence, obstruction of human relations, false style... The temporary land that should not have been allowed has broken through layer by layer and put on the "legal coat" with the help of these dereliction of duty and responsibility. Through deep investigation, the staff found that behind the regulatory default reflected the "original intention degeneration". The joint investigation team further explored the corruption and style of work behind the ecological environment problems, focused on the illegal approval and benefit transfer issues, and found that some public officials were suspected of violating discipline and law through in-depth investigation and careful study of public officials closely related to India. In October 2020, the term of temporary land use expires. Yisheng building materials factory not only did not return and restore the temporary land approved in violation of regulations, but also illegally occupied other woodlands to expand the sand production line without obtaining the extension land use permit. The county natural resources bureau should have urged Mr. Yin to return the land and reclaim it after the expiration of the temporary land, but the supervision of the Bureau was weak, and the inspection and law enforcement were not in place, so the above problems were not stopped and investigated. Knowing that the temporary land use procedures of Yisheng building materials factory have expired, Mr. Li, deputy general manager of Taoyuan County investment company, still illegally agreed that the urban investment company would sign a commissioned sand making contract with Yisheng building materials factory because of his improper interests with Mr. India, which encouraged his behavior of destroying the ecological environment. It is understood that among the 37 people investigated and held accountable in this case, one was suspected of taking bribes, another 6 had improper economic exchanges with an Indian, such as investment, or received gifts from an Indian, and 11 had formalist bureaucratic problems. For example, Xiong, the then Secretary of the Party committee of Guanyinsi Town, had some disciplinary and illegal problems, such as accepting gifts from an Indian New Year greetings and accepting his arrangements for vehicles to travel. "The Natural Resources Institute of Guanyinsi town is the first gateway for supervision. The relevant staff are most aware of the situation. As long as they actively perform their duties, they will be able to find problems." Chen Long told reporters that he Moumou, the then director of the natural resources institute, not only failed to strictly perform his duties, but also lent funds to India in the late stage for the sand making business, making supervision a decoration. When talking about their own problems, Xiong and he said that making such a mistake was ultimately because they forgot their original mission and ignored discipline and rules. Consolidate and deepen the special supervision of "Dongting Qingbo", and seriously pursue the dereliction of duty and responsibility in ecological environment protection Ecological environment protection is related to people's well-being and sustainable economic and social development. After finding the problem, under the deployment and scheduling of the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the supervision of the Changde Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision, the Changde Water Conservancy Bureau took the lead in supervision, with the cooperation of the municipal forestry department, the Taoyuan County Party committee and county government implemented the main responsibility for the rectification, immediately shut down the Yisheng building materials factory, demolished the relevant facilities, and completed the soil covering and greening of 17 mu of land in the Dafu river basin with high standards within 20 days. While promoting the rectification of problems, the joint investigation team distinguished three types of general dereliction of duty and responsibility, serious dereliction of duty and responsibility, and serious dereliction of discipline and suspected job-related crimes according to the circumstances of violations of discipline and law, and dealt with them in three batches according to the regulations and laws. Up to now, the municipal and county discipline inspection commissions and supervision committees have held 37 party members, cadres and public officials accountable, including 1 person who took retention measures (at present, he has been expelled from the party and public office, and transferred to the procuratorial organ for examination and prosecution according to law), 19 people have been given party discipline and government sanctions, and 17 people have been dealt with. "Accountability is not the end. We should investigate and deal with a case and rectify it to achieve the purpose of warning one party." The relevant person in charge of Changde Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision said. According to the requirements of the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision, the Changde Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision and the Taoyuan County Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision thoroughly analyzed the causes of the problems, took one example and three examples, carried out in-depth special rectification of prominent problems involving sand and mining, established a reward reporting mechanism for combating illegal sand mining, investigated and rectified 60 specific problems, prepared and issued supervision proposals to natural resources, forestry, ecological environment and other departments respectively, and urged the detection and filling of omissions and the establishment of a whole chapter. Since this year, the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision has included the 15 issues disclosed in the 2021 Yangtze River Economic Belt ecological environment warning film into the rectification list of 103 issues in the 2022 "Dongting Qingbo" special supervision work. It has made progress every week, urged and promoted comprehensive and in-depth rectification throughout the country, and achieved phased results. In view of the damage to the ecological environment caused by the construction project of Lianyun hydropower station in Pingjiang county and the quality improvement and reconstruction project of Sifu highway, the Yueyang Municipal Party committee established a special working class, established a supervision list, strictly investigated and held accountable, and comprehensively established a rectification work pattern with territorial priority, departmental supervision, hierarchical responsibility, upper and lower linkage, and a combination of sections. At present, the demolition of Lianyun hydropower station buildings, equipment and water diversion pipelines and the dredging and restoration of masikang river channel have been completed. The forest land damaged in violation of regulations has been basically restored to forestry production conditions, and soil erosion has been effectively controlled. Yiyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision implemented follow-up supervision, whole process supervision and precise supervision on the rectification of environmental pollution caused by the direct discharge of some leachate overflows from Anhua domestic waste landfill. The relevant supervision and inspection office of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and the discipline inspection and supervision team of the Municipal Bureau of housing and urban rural development stationed in Anhua County, carried out a week-long preliminary investigation, and successively organized five on-site inspections and unannounced visits. Anhua County Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision arranged two discipline inspection and supervision cadres to stay in the landfill for a long time to supervise and promote the rectification of problems in the whole process. After comprehensively figuring out and deeply investigating the corruption, responsibility and style of work behind the problems, 13 party members and cadres were seriously held accountable, of which 8 were given party discipline and government sanctions. The reporter learned that in the next step, the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision will focus on preventing violations of discipline and law in the field of ecological and environmental protection, focus on the key links of ecological and environmental protection, and strengthen supervision and inspection of inaction and chaos in the pre emptive and process links such as the approval of "high energy consumption and high emissions" projects, the administrative licensing of ecological and environmental protection projects, and the allocation and use of funds, We should strictly investigate and deal with formalism, bureaucracy, false rectification, digital rectification and delayed rectification in the rectification process of ecological and environmental problems. At the same time, urge all functional departments to analyze the causes of prominent problems in the ecological environment in a typed manner, through the establishment of rules and regulations and classification