Protecting the environment to promote socio-economic development

Aiming to build a green environment, along with a strong and civilized socio-economic foundation, since the year 2000, environmental protection work has been actively carried out by Quang Ninh province, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Environment, relevant sectors and units, businesses and people and has achieved very encouraging results.

Up to now, 100% of industrial parks and industrial clusters have centralized wastewater treatment systems that meet standards; waste collection and treatment reach over 98% in urban areas, and over 90% in rural areas. Quang Ninh's environmental quality is maintained, environmental management is transparent and objective, which is the basis for the province to be the leading province nationwide in attracting effective FDI investment in projects on socio- economic development, environmental protection...

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Cong (middle) inspected the industrial waste treatment system at Lam Thach Cement Factory.

The province's major policies on "greening" production and implementing a "green" lifestyle have received attention and support from the government, people and businesses. The highlight is that Quang Ninh has built and operated synchronous systems for collecting and treating industrial waste in the operations of industrial parks and industrial clusters. Coal industry units have converted from open-pit mining to underground mining; stopped transporting coal on Ha Long Bay; stopped transporting coal on Highway 18A; moved the Nam Cau Trang Coal Screening Plant out of the urban center of Ha Long City... The Coal industry has allocated 1,000 billion VND to prevent and overcome environmental pollution caused by mining in the period 2015-2020... Cement and thermal power production units have converted the use of DO oil to FO; stopped transporting clinker in cement production on Ha Long Bay; and synchronously handled solid waste in green cement production activities. In agricultural production, Quang Ninh promotes the reuse of agricultural waste; develops circular agriculture; prevents and controls epidemics in production; implements local standards on safe materials in aquaculture...

Quang Ninh province has moved fishing villages ashore to protect the environment of Ha Long Bay; invested in wastewater treatment plants at tourist routes and destinations; developed green transportation and lighting at tourist areas and destinations; and reduced the use and emission of plastic waste in tourism activities in Ha Long Bay and many tourist areas in the province. Since 2005, Quang Ninh has strengthened the management and supervision of waste sources, and has so far built 171 automatic environmental monitoring stations and a network of 390 periodic environmental monitoring points, thereby strictly controlling environmental quality, especially in sensitive areas. The whole province currently has 19 incinerators and 3 regional waste treatment areas, and has completed and put into operation a centralized domestic wastewater collection and treatment system in newly established urban areas in the province, thereby basically meeting the demand for domestic waste treatment...

Mr. Nguyen Nhu Hanh, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, said that the above results come from many sides. In particular, after more than 20 years of establishing a specialized unit on environmental management, the Department of Agriculture and Environment has advised the Provincial Party Committee to issue 2 specialized Resolutions on environmental protection (No. 12-NQ/TU dated March 12, 2018 and No. 10-NQ/TU dated September 26, 2022). The People's Council of Quang Ninh province also issued 3 Resolutions (No. 117/2003/NQ-HDND dated July 29, 2003; No. 33/2010/NQ-HDND dated December 10, 2010; No. 236/2015/NQ-HDND dated December 12, 2015); The Department advises the Provincial People's Committee to approve and promulgate the Environmental Planning of Quang Ninh province to 2020, with a vision to 2030; Environmental Planning of Ha Long Bay to 2020, with a vision to 2030; Environmental protection and environmental monitoring plan of Quang Ninh for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050; 6 sets of local environmental standards according to European standards. Along with that, the Department of Agriculture and Environment also issued regulations on the management of domestic solid waste, medical solid waste, environmental protection programs and plans, and many documents on leadership and direction for the implementation of specific environmental protection management work. This is an important legal corridor for the environmental protection work of Quang Ninh province to achieve results.

From the above positive movements, Quang Ninh is currently highly appreciated by central ministries, branches, domestic and foreign organizations for its environmental protection work. The values ​​of environmental governance parameters have achieved good results, contributing to helping the province achieve high rankings in national rankings, such as ranking 1st in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 in the PAPI rankings; ranking 1st for 7 consecutive years from 2017-2023 in the PCI rankings; ranking first nationwide in PHI in 2023; in the top 5 provinces and cities with the highest results in the rankings of provinces and cities implementing the Environmental Index.

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