Panzhihua: V-Ti's Mission And Dream Of All The Green

   One known as the «Yangtze first city» of the resource-based heavy industry city, three years to 3.0 billion environmental protection has invested huge sums of money. To open up to accelerate development, and sustainable development of the vast space, creating «sky blue, green land, clear water, city beautiful» environmental protection model city, in the Olympic flame aloft the banner with green Olympics in 2008, this young city once again will be equivalent to its yearly revenue of 3.7 billion to invest in environmental protection. Panzhihua were well aware that this is a new starting point rather than the end. In accordance with this year’s creation of provincial Environmental Protection Model City to ensure the success of urban solid advance the creation of national environmental protection objectives, they must also tackle tough, but had no choice.

Choice: Environmental capacity and accelerate development, «double pressure» derive greater urgency

Protection model cities, is to expand the development space for a good carrier and means of

Panzhihua has a glorious history of entrepreneurship and construction, owns 61% of the vanadium reserves, national 75%, 35% of the world’s titanium reserves, after 40 years of construction, with the vanadium and titanium, steel, energy, chemical and other relatively well — pillar industries, smelting furnace out of Sichuan’s first titanium sponge and master of the world’s leading high-speed rail, vanadium nitrogen alloy and other advanced patented technology … … This is an indisputable fact; but each refining a pot of hot metal, slag is necessary to produce six cans ; year’s sulfur dioxide emission volume to Sichuan province’s total emissions of 10% or more … … This is also true. The harsh reality is: Panzhihua is rich in resources and a solid industrial base, but do not have the environmental capacity for development. As municipal leaders in the city at the provincial level mainly vanadium and titanium Industrial Park, said: «It’s not park the eradication of pollution, pollution is the eradication of parks.»

    In fact, the «first production and life after» historical formation of urban environmental protection and underdeveloped infrastructure, environmental protection and debts more, vanadium-titanium magnetite and the smelting process to form the structural characteristics of serious pollution, combined with Panzhihua special topographical and geographical conditions led directly to the city in the development process a large quantity of polluting emissions, emission concentration range of issues of governance more difficult.

 

   »We have to build China’s vanadium and titanium, it is to get out of resource-based cities ‘development — prosperity — exhausted — decay’ and ‘outputs of resources, leaving pollution; output of wealth, leaving behind poverty’ in the cycle. Panzhihua firm does not Move to promote the advantages of resources to government-led, market allocation of core resources in situ conversion of local extension of industrial chain, secondary resources, multi-stakeholder involvement, recycling use. »

In accordance with enhanced remediation, highlight key points, the overall advance the idea of Panzhihua formulated the «Eleventh Five-Year» «the total emission reduction plan», issued in various districts and counties, focusing on business and industrial parks to reduce total discharge control targets and tasks to determine the specific industrial emission reduction measures and Governance Project. The municipal government to promote the record mode for improving the governance capability of leading cadres at all levels of an important task to establish a unified command of the city, under the leadership model city «one to do four groups of eight,» the city makes a concerted effort, setting off a a «model city storm.»

    Since 2005, the city has accumulated 3.0 billion investment fund pollution control, governance of industrial pollution sources more than 400 to close the illegal enterprise 35, a total of 45,000 tons reduction of tobacco dust, sulfur dioxide and 5,000 tons. Eliminate backward production capacity, closed four units 50,000 kilowatts thermal power units, eliminating more than 90 banned do not meet industrial policy, does not conform to town planning, pollution more serious projects. Invested 220 million yuan, construction, garbage disposal and sewage treatment plants, improve urban environmental infrastructure. In 2007, eight have been listed enterprises supervised by the strict inspection and acceptance by rectification, the city’s industrial solid waste disposal rate of 96%, industrial wastewater reuse up to 95.51%. Air quality is fine for the first time in decades the number of days breaking 300 days, reaching 306 days; urban water quality compliance rate of 100%, exit section of the water quality compliance rate of 100%.

Practice has proven that environmental protection and development can be balanced and mutually reinforcing. In 2007, Panzhihua in the unit of industrial added value mainly emissions decreased at the same time, GDP from 2003′s 16.3 billion to 36.4 billion; the direct use of foreign capital 32.21 million U.S. dollars, up 316 percent, more than the sum of 43 years to build municipal . Vanadium and titanium in the first half of 2008 industrial park industrial output value 1.878 billion yuan, up 106%; the completion of 714 million yuan industrial added value, an increase of 108%. The city’s industrial enterprises above designated size reached 21% value-added growth, the amount of import and export commodities for the first time exceeded 1 billion mark.