To ensure the “Olympic blue” Beijing Winter Olympics launched regional joint control

Beijing Winter Olympic Games competition period spans a long period of Time, but also in the winter heating period, relatively unfavorable meteorological conditions, said Liu Bingjiang, director of the Department of Atmospheric Environment of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment on 25, to ensure the safety of ambient air quality in the Beijing Winter Olympics, Beijing alone can not solve, must rely on regional joint prevention and control.

The Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics are scheduled to be held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou from February 4 to February 20 and March 4 to March 13, 2022, according to the China News Agency.

Liu Bingjiang, director of the Department of Atmospheric Environment of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said: “The Beijing Winter Olympics competition period spans a long period of time and coincides with the winter heating period, meteorological conditions are relatively unfavorable, heavy pollution days are high and frequent, the air quality situation is more severe, and the pressure to achieve the Chinese government’s commitment to the Winter Olympics is great”, it seems that the Chongli competition area in Zhangjiakou The air quality situation is better, Beijing in previous years there will be exceeded days or even heavy pollution weather.

Liu Bingjiang said that the organization of scientific research institutions and experts on the past few years of this season of each heavy pollution process was reviewed, a detailed analysis of the pollution transmission path and the scope of impact, at present, to ensure the safety of the ambient air quality of the Winter Olympics, Beijing alone can not solve, must rely on regional joint prevention and control. Now the biggest transmission impact is 2 + 26 cities, in addition to the Liaoning city group – Qinhuangdao – Tangshan transmission impact. The greater threat to Zhangjiakou is the transmission impact of Datong-Shuozhou in Shanxi, as well as the transmission impact of Hohhot-Baotou-Erdos-Ulaanchab in Inner Mongolia.

Liu Bingjiang said, to ensure the air quality of the Beijing Winter Olympics, first of all, to accelerate the various air pollution treatment tasks. Guidance around the accelerated industrial, energy, transport structure adjustment and enterprise pollution deep treatment and other work, orderly promote the implementation of control measures in place, and strictly prevent a one-size-fits-all. Second, strengthen the monitoring and early warning research and judgment. Next year’s Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games during the air situation in the competition area for the medium and long term forecast and judgment, do a good job of monitoring and early warning.

At the same time, but also to strengthen regional joint prevention and control. Solid promotion of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding areas to carry out air pollution prevention and control collaboration, do a good job in response to heavy polluted weather, the implementation of performance grading, differentiated control of key industries emergency emission reduction. Strengthen environmental law enforcement supervision. Strengthen the supervision of enterprises and pollution sources in key industries, increase the investigation and punishment, and crack down on theft and leakage of emissions, excessive emissions and other environmental violations.