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2014年10月16日,长春——为促进东北省市大气污染防治行动计划的实施和落实,以期达到空气质量改善目标,亚洲清洁空气中心联合环保部环境保护对外合作中心、长春市环保局于2014年10月16日在长春举办“东北地区大气污染防治行动计划实施”座谈会,为东北地区城市搭建经验交流平台。来自吉林省环保厅、辽宁省环保厅,乌鲁木齐市、长春市、哈尔滨市、沈阳等8个重点城市的环保局的领导及技术人员,以及高校的专家共30人参加了本次研讨会,充分交流各地市的大气污染防治工作进展、管理经验、挑战与未来工作计划。
亚洲清洁空气中心中国区总监付璐女士主持了开幕仪式并致辞,她对参会嘉宾、合作单位的到来表示欢迎和感谢。付璐女士介绍了亚洲清洁空气中心以及研讨会召开的背景与目的,亚洲清洁空气中心近年来不断加强同东北地区城市关于大气污染防治的交流,并希望参会各方就大气污染防治行动计划实施积极互相交流。环境保护对外合作中心项目官员陆轶青女士代表对外合作中心致欢迎辞,并结合当前城市雾霾天气频发的情况指出了区域大气污染防治的困难与挑战,认为举办此次座谈会非常及时与必要,并肯定了各方对大气污染防治工作做出的积极应对与努力。长春市环保局副局长叶蓬欣先生对参会各方表示了热烈欢迎,并介绍了长春的城市发展特点,包括经济总量、产业结构、重点行业等;他强调自2013年起长春开始面临雾霾问题,主要是由于燃煤占一次能源消费的80%,并且仍在增加,希望通过此次座谈会同各方积极交流,学习大气污染防治的管理经验。
为期一天的座谈会内容全面丰富,包含了各自城市介绍其大气污染防治的现状、进展、措施、经验、问题及未来的工作计划,同时设置了圆桌讨论便于了解参会各方对空气质量管理的需求,讨论气氛非常活跃。各城市目前共有的主要工作重点有一定共性:
在普遍具有的防治重点的基础上,各城市介绍了具有自身特点的做法和经验:
鉴于当前我国多省市面临着重污染天气频发、持续时间长、成因复杂、难以快速消除的现状,座谈会特别召开了圆桌会议,以了解参会各方在大气污染防治方面的切实需求,为未来举办相关研讨会与专题培训提供了指导方向,更有利于加强城市的污染防治能力建设与提高技术水平。各方共同表达了东北地区缺乏大气污染防治方面的培训机会,希望未来能够获得更多的的培训机会,并且各方针对自身需求共同确定了未来研讨会及培训的潜在专题:
所有参会代表对此次座谈会给出了非常积极的评价与反馈,认为本次座谈会各城市间的介绍与讨论具有良好的借鉴意义。城市间积极参与分享经验与问题,互相学习并建立了联系,对提高自身的大气污染防治能力起到了积极良好的作用,希望亚洲清洁空气中心与环境保护对外合作中心在未来提供更多类似的平台来促进城市间技术交流与能力建设。亚洲清洁空气中心付璐总监与环境保护对外合作中心项目官员陆轶青女士在会议总结中都积极回应了城市代表的建议和需求,表示将合作继续为城市提供平台与技术支持。亚洲清洁空气中心表示会每年开展相关研讨会或专题培训,并会对试点城市的清洁空气管理进行评估,提供深度支持。环境部对外合作中心会组织对VOCs源解析、非道路移动源专题开展相关培训,并考虑按实际问题、管理水平将城市分类后,进行对口培训。同时会针对各地特点,介绍国际技术与经验,促进各地同国际专家的沟通交流。
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Oct 16, 2014, Changchun—With the aim of supporting the implementation of the Action Plan for Air Pollution Prevention and Control in China’s Northeast Cities and establish an experience-sharing platform for China’s Northeast Cities, Clean Air Asia, together with Foreign Economic Cooperation Office, Ministry of Environmental Protection (FECO-MEP) and Changchun Environmental Protection Bureau (Changchun EPB), held “Workshop for Implementation of Action Plan for Air Pollution Prevention and Control in China Northeast Cities” on Oct 16, 2014 in Changchun. A total of 30 participants including officials and technicians from Environmental Protection Departments (EPDs) of Jilin Province and Liaoning Province, EPBs of Urumqi, Changchun, Harbin, Shenyang, Dalian, Jilin, Daqing, and Benxi as well as representatives of academia attended the workshop and exchanged comprehensive information on the progress of air pollution prevention and control, management experiences, challenges, and future work plans.
Dr. Fu Lu, China Director of Clean Air Asia, hosted the opening ceremony and delivered the welcome speech. She made an introduction on Clean Air Asia as well as the background and aim of this workshop. In recent years, Clean Air Asia has continuously strengthened the communication with China’s Northeast Cities on air pollution prevention and control. Dr. Fu Lu expected that all the participants could actively exchange the opinions on the implementation and enforcement of the Action Plan for air pollution prevention and control. Ms. Lu Yiqing, Program Officer of FECO-MEP, delivered the speech on behalf of FECO-MEP. Considering the frequent occurrence of hazy weather and the challenges in the prevention and control of regional air pollution, she thought that the workshop was in time and necessary. She also commended on the efforts and active responses to air pollution control that the Northeast Cities had made. Mr. Ye Pengxin, Deputy Director of Changchun EPB warmly welcomed all the participants to Changchun and introduced Changchun in the aspects of economic aggregate, industrial structure, key industries, etc. He emphasized that Changchun had severe haze since 2013, mainly due to the coal-burning which accounted for 80% of primary energy consumption and still keeps increasing. He hoped to learn from other cities the developed management experience of air pollution prevention and control.
The workshop included introduction of current situation, policy measures, challenges, and next steps of air pollution prevention and control in each city. After full information exchange, the common areas that the cities focused on were identified as below:
The workshop organized a round-table discussion to fully understand the actual needs for China’s Northeast Cities on air pollution prevention and control, which would provide the guidance on training and workshops to be held in the future by Clean Air Asia in the region, in order to strengthen the capacity building of air quality management. The city’s representatives all expressed their willingness to gain more opportunities to participate in the training and workshops. The topics that the representatives would like to have training and workshops for include:
All the participants have shown their appreciation to the workshop and gave positive feedback. The workshop provided a platform for the Northeast Cities to share experiences, address problems, and build relationships. They all hoped that Clean Air Asia and FECO-MEP would keep providing such platforms for information exchange, experience sharing and capacity building for the cities. Dr. Fu Lu, China Director of Clean Air Asia and Ms. Lu Yiqing, Program Officer of FECO-MEP have both expressed that they will use their resources and expertise to keep supporting this region’s capacity building and collaboration.
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