Zhangjiakou Huailai largest coal market

On the 110 national road leading to Beijing from Zhangjiakou, a reporter from the Securities Times found that the roadside coal yard is no longer open, multiple coal markets have been sealed, environmental law enforcement vehicles have been parked at the entrance, and even coal trucks have disappeared along the way.

Zhangjiakou is the most important highway channel for Shanxi scattered coal to enter Beijing. Huailai was the largest coal trading market in northwestern Beijing many years ago. The taxes and fees of the coal market account for 20% of the county's fiscal revenue.

Huailai County, one of the top ten coal-producing cities in the country, saw a depression in the civil coal market. Two of the three exits of the toll booth were sealed by mounds, leaving only one entrance and exit. The old toll booths are only on duty, and coal-free vehicles are not in or out all day. "This port only puts out coal cars and does not allow coal to go in." The old man told the reporter, "You haven't seen the scene before here. The coal is piled up like a mountain. Now the coal yards are basically empty. You don't have any inside." Meet people? The bosses are gone."

In this large coal market in the town of Tumu, more than 70 merchants set up coal yards, and Beijing heating and industrial coal are transported to Beijing via the blended coal. The civil coal market began to enter the closing stage at the end of last year. Some coal yards have already dismantled the weighing scales for vehicles. After this, the market will be demolished and rebuilt as Yanshan Cultural Industrial Park.

The coal market like this has five counties in the county and all of them have been closed. This is one of the special operations for air pollution and environmental comprehensive renovation carried out by the county since last year. Cities and counties throughout Hebei Province are implementing the “10 measures for special treatment of atmospheric pollution” in the province.

Huailai is known as the hometown of grapes and is an important production area of ​​Great Wall wine. However, in the current situation where smog has become a hot topic of public concern, CCTV’s attention has suddenly increased due to its exposure last year. CCTV broadcasts Huailai’s 110 national highways. Coal dust pollution scene. Local officials told the Securities Times that in the past, when the wind reached level 4 or above, the open coal piled up in the open air and the sky over the coal yard could be said to be overshadowed by the sun.

Zhangjiakou is on the edge of the Mongolian plateau and is windy. Coal dust is clearly unsettling to nearby Beijing. “There are 172 business households in the five coal markets in the county, and the tax revenue contributed by the coal market exceeds 300 million yuan a year. The entire Huailai County fiscal revenue is also 1.5 billion yuan. The coal market also involves the transportation, catering, and automobile repair industries. However, we still mobilized the operators to close the coal yard, said Cui Jian, chief of the legal department of Huailai County Environmental Protection Bureau. The county traffic police, environmental protection, and highways jointly set up cards, and coal trucks are only allowed to be shipped in. Before the renovation in November last year, the coal market had 1.9 million tons of stored coal, which is now less than 400,000 tons. The county has established 12 working groups for atmospheric pollution control. The county-wide coal-fired heating boilers have been completely banned, and two centralized heating plants have been built. The county closed the clay brick production enterprises. Huailai has shut down all steel and cement companies. At present, the number of air quality days in the county is 90%.

Due to restrictions on the use of coal, some factories have also started to move to places near natural gas pipelines to use clean energy. "Pollution companies will not allow the existing companies to achieve environmental protection standards, and the rectification will not be shut down. Huailai County is considered to be a broken wrist." Cui Jian said that the territory of the Guanting Reservoir is Beijing's backup water source, the results of the monitoring of the reservoir real-time Internet directly reported to the country According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, in order to ensure the quality of water supply in the capital, Huailai County sewage discharge standards have risen from Level 1 B to the highest Level 1A.

Huailai’s “Capital Garden” is playing an eco-economic card and seizes the opportunity for Beijing Zhang’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, especially the Beijing-Tibet Express Green Belt. At the same time, the local government is also aware of the policy differences and regional barriers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration process.

An official from the Huailai County Government told reporters by using greening as an example. The plain afforestation project in Beijing was invested 30,000 yuan per mu in the early stage and 4 yuan per square meter per year in the future. The implementation of the sandstorm source in Beijing and Tianjin was implemented in Huailai County. For afforestation projects, the one-time investment per mu is only 300 yuan, and the investment intensity differs by more than 100 times. The scale and survival rate will not go up. Also, for example, traffic construction, Beijing is a full investment, which is 1 higher than Huailai's subsidy investment. /3 is more. “In addition, we and Beijing are very different in many aspects such as salary and salary, and we can only realize the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei only by eliminating these differences in policies,” said the official.