Liu Bingjiang, director of the Department of Atmosphere of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said on the morning of the 15th that the Ministry of Environmental Protection has decided to send 13 inspection teams to cover all cities that have activated red and orange warnings. The inspection content includes checking whether the early warning plan formulated by the government is implemented, and checking whether the enterprise has implemented the plan in place.

"Every time someone is sent to inspect, every time someone is found to commit crimes against the wind." Liu Bingjiang said, every inspection in the past can find problems, this inspection, if you find that companies are committing crimes and the government is not acting, it will Fixed punishments for enterprises; if the government does not act, “waiting for the wind” or “working for others”, it will be an important part of the environmental protection inspection. The punishment, the accountability, and the accountability will never be soft. In response to this heavy pollution process, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has sent letters to the people's governments of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan to notify the air quality forecast and forecast information.

From December 16 to 21, 2016, affected by adverse weather conditions, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Xingtai, Handan, Langfang, Hengshui, Tangshan, Cangzhou, Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Puyang, Xinxiang, Anyang The air quality in 23 cities including, Jiaozuo and Hebi City may reach severe pollution or above for 4 consecutive days, and severe pollution may occur for more than 2 days.

The air quality of 9 cities in Kaifeng City, Henan Province, Luliang and Changzhi City in Shaanxi Province, Jinan, Zibo, Jining, Taian, Laiwu, and Binzhou City in Shandong Province may reach severe pollution or above for 3 consecutive days, and serious pollution may occur for 1 day.

Since December, the stainless steel pipe Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas have experienced two severely polluted weather processes. The relevant personnel of the Ministry of Environmental Protection stated that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas have a large population, and the production and transportation of 304 stainless steel channel steel are concentrated. After the winter enters, the emission of coal-fired heating pollutants in the entire region has increased significantly, which is a large-scale regional heavy pollution in December. The root cause.

Analysis of monitoring data since 2013 shows that during heavy pollution in autumn and winter, heavy pollution often occurs in many cities in the central and southern regions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. It is difficult for a single city to take countermeasures to achieve the effect of pollution control and haze control. Regional joint prevention and control is imperative. Row.

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, judging from the corresponding level of early warning, the actual pollution situation of most cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas was lower than the issued warning level from December 1-4 and December 9-12. The duration and occurrence of the pollution process The number of cities with severe pollution levels has dropped significantly, indicating that early emergency response measures have effectively alleviated the impact of heavily polluted weather, the pollution level has been reduced by one level, and the pollution duration has also been reduced.

In particular, from December 2 to 4, 60 cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas launched a unified early warning response, realizing for the first time a regional high-level, large-scale early warning and emergency response, showing the control effect of regional joint prevention and control.

From the perspective of measures initiated by various regions, provinces (municipalities) attach great importance to them and immediately deploy measures to deal with heavy pollution. Beijing's executive deputy mayor Li Shixiang and deputy mayor Zhang Gong presided over a video conference to deploy the orange warning response and lead a team to check the implementation of the warning measures.