Chapter 1155: The Great Ministry of Energy

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In the conception of Fan Heng and Fan Wu's father and son. It is to turn the Ministry of Energy into a super-ministry, and all the parts related to energy utilization, energy planning, and energy production will be included in this super-ministry, even the State Environmental Protection Administration, which has a great authority and has become more and more important with its accession to the WTO.

The reason for this is also based on the assumption of the big energy industry, and at the same time to meet the needs of high-level layoffs of government agency personnel.

The development of the domestic environmental protection industry is relatively slow, since the eighties of the last century, all over the country in the promotion of environmental protection market-oriented reform in the feeling of the stone across the river.

In the late eighties, some cities began to reform water investment, and city governments obtained intergovernmental loans or loans from international financial organizations through direct or indirect guarantees. In this round of investment, more than 100 projects in major cities were involved, but the investment did not involve property rights.

After the central government banned the participation of city governments in direct financing such as guarantees, in the mid-90s, the second phase of investment exploration began, and foreign investors began to invest in urban water plant projects in the form of cooperative operation and guaranteed fixed returns (basically excluding urban pipe networks), which also avoided the clarity of property rights relations, but only clarified the return on investment.

In the late nineties, the third stage of reform exploration, represented by a large number of BOT methods, began. For a single new project (mainly a water plant project), BOT has released limited property rights for a certain period of time, realizing effective financing of the project, but avoiding the disposal of property rights of the original assets of the urban water industry.

With the full development of the restructuring of urban water enterprises, the separation of government public management functions and asset investor functions, especially after the party's first time, the property rights reform of water enterprises has really kicked off, and part of the equity transfer of water enterprises in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Sanya and other cities marks that the marketization of the water industry has entered the stage of property rights system reform.

At the end of 2001, the State Development Planning Commission issued a "Circular on Printing and Distributing Several Opinions on Promoting and Guiding Nongovernmental Investment," pointing out that it is necessary to gradually relax the scope of investment, and to encourage and allow nongovernmental investment in all fields where foreign investment is encouraged and allowed, except for those that the state has special regulations. Encourage and guide private investment to participate in the construction of operational infrastructure and public welfare projects in the form of sole proprietorship, cooperation, joint venture, equity participation, franchising, etc.

The issuance of this "Notice" marks the recognition of the franchise model.

At the end of last year, the Ministry of Construction issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Marketization Process of the Municipal Public Utilities Industry", which requires institutional innovation and mechanism innovation as the driving force to ensure the interests of the public and promote the development of the municipal public utilities industry for the purpose of accelerating the marketization process of the municipal public utilities industry. Encourage social funds and foreign capital to participate in the construction of municipal public facilities in various forms such as sole proprietorship, joint ventures, and cooperation, so as to form a diversified investment structure.

In general, Fan Heng and Fan Wuji, father and son, still borrowed some advanced foreign experience and elevated some of the powers under the control of the State Environmental Protection Administration to the status of national energy, especially for special energy sources such as water resources. It is mentioned in a very high position, and the topic of environmental protection itself is inseparable from the effective use of energy, energy conservation and emission reduction.

As long as a new large energy ministry is formed, these problems can be solved in a coordinated manner, and there is no need to continue to argue and manage things as they are now.

"But if that's the case, wouldn't it have to face dissolution once when it was upgraded to the State Environmental Protection Administration, which was only upgraded to the State Environmental Protection Administration in 1998? There is no sign of the State Environmental Protection Administration, how does this make the people perceive? Others expressed dissenting views.

The current State Environmental Protection Administration was upgraded to the specifications of the State Environmental Protection Administration only after the flood relief in 1998.

Fan Heng immediately replied, "A lot of work in China has obvious drawbacks of headache and foot pain, and it does not mean that if you hang up a sign of the State Environmental Protection Administration and upgrade the specifications to the General Administration, you will be able to do a good job in domestic environmental protection work." In fact. The nominal change has not helped, and the change from the EPA to the SEPA has not brought much benefit to the country, and the investment and return are seriously disproportionate. In my personal opinion, it is better to do less of this kind of thing, and the key is to solve the problem substantively. The establishment of a large energy ministry and the integration of the powers of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) will integrate energy utilization, management and planning, and output, which will be more conducive to the healthy development of the whole society. ”

This makes some people feel very uncomfortable when they hear it, but they can't find anything wrong, once someone says about this matter, it is the same thing, which is just like the propaganda slogan of "the people XX for the people, do XX for the people" for a period of time, and the streets are full of slogans, but when they don't serve the people, they are still the same, and they are still lame like uncles.

It is enough to see that if you want to do a good job in environmental protection, it is not as simple as upgrading the environmental protection bureau to the general environmental protection bureau, and the improvement of the administrative level has no real impact on the work.

Moreover, in addition to fines, the State Environmental Protection Administration does not have a set of effective comprehensive management methods, so the emergence of the State Environmental Protection Administration, in addition to being criticized, is really meaningless for the cause of environmental protection.

In the past six years, domestic environmental law enforcement supervision and pollution control efforts have been continuously increased, environmental protection investment has increased significantly, and public environmental awareness has been significantly improved.

However, the government is under more pressure on environmental protection. In order to reduce the burden, enterprises evade responsibility, which also affects the normal development of environmental protection. It would be very dangerous if we failed to establish a modern environmental management model as soon as possible to promote the healthy development of China's environmental protection undertakings.

In fact, as early as the eighties of the last century, the country proposed that environmental protection should take the road of marketization, but what is the environmental protection model that adapts to the market economy? For this point, China has not been able to understand.

Environmental problems have their economic roots, which inevitably determine the possibility of economic activities intervening in environmental protection undertakings. Through the innovation of economic systems, such as the price and property rights system, those who pollute and destroy environmental resources are urged to choose environmentally friendly production and management methods based on their own economic interests, rely on technological progress and cleaner production technology, improve economic production efficiency, change the traditional economic growth model, and reduce the pressure of human economic activities on resources and the environment.

However, the existing mode of operation of environmental protection unilaterally emphasizes the government's behavior, only pays attention to input, does not pay attention to output, ignores the basic laws of economic activities, and makes the environmental protection cause lack economic benefits, thereby deepening the confrontation between environmental protection and economic development, and hindering the development of environmental protection.

In order to solve environmental problems, it is necessary to establish various environmental management systems that are compatible with the market economy, including government policies. Abandon the previous practice of unilaterally relying on the government's direct orders to control management, adopt economic means, through market policy management, establish a diversified investment system, and distribute the share of environmental investment among polluters by market-oriented means.

It is necessary for the state to be responsible for the construction of some environmentally important environmental infrastructure, comprehensive cross-regional pollution control and environmental management and supervision, to provide cutting-edge technology for the cleaner production of enterprises, and to restrain environmental pollution and ecological damage through the designation of environmental policies, laws and regulations, management systems and environmental planning, and to give certain policy preferences to enterprises in terms of environmental investment, such as the implementation of preferential policies for loan interest rates for environmental investment projects, etc., to guide and encourage enterprises and society to jointly protect the environment.

"Environmental protection should be transformed from the past government behavior to a market behavior and corporate behavior driven by economic interest mechanisms. The adoption of the economic system allows enterprises to choose the least cost-effective pollution control technology and have the flexibility to pay fees. Encourage companies to reduce pollution more than the standard requires. Establish an effective cost selection mechanism, carry out environmental pollution prevention and control, directly reduce the pollution generated, and reduce costs, establish a good image of the enterprise, and achieve a win-win effect of environment and economy. "This mechanism has already worked well in Japan. China should also implement a system of charging for the total amount of pollutant discharge, and encourage enterprises to take pollution prevention and control measures and choose cleaner production roads through the method that the pollutant discharge fee is greater than the treatment cost. In addition, it is also necessary to strengthen the construction and implementation of the enterprise environmental management system, so that the enterprise can form a self-discipline environmental management behavior in the prevention and control of industrial pollution. The development of environmental protection industry and the promotion of enterprises to choose cleaner production methods can not only control pollution from the perspective of enterprises, but also guide personal environmental protection behaviors from the direction of consumption, such as choosing green packaging and reducing waste. ”

In any case, in order to achieve effective supervision and governance, environmental protection only with the Ministry of Energy conceived together, it is possible to reduce the waste of resources, and at the same time unified into a general scope of the overall situation, from the root cause of the problem, and this approach, that is, if you meet the standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, that is, from the source directly cut you off, no environmental protection, there is no energy, the power of supervision in one hand, for the enterprise is the ability to kill and kill.

"Looking at the deterioration of the environment in the past two decades, we should be sober, not just thinking about a little personal interest, considering how much trouble it would cause to reduce the number of ministries and deputy ministers, but to see what the country really needs?" Fan Heng pointed out very sharply, "If this situation does not change immediately, the backlash of nature is very powerful, and in twenty years, we will have no energy available, and the living space will no longer be suitable for human habitation!" GDP growth is nothing more than an illusion, playing with the manipulation of capital. It can be controlled at will, but the deterioration of energy and the environment is real, and none of us wants to retire and have to go abroad for the elderly, right? Inaction now is a complete crime! ”

After the meeting ended, some people whispered, "Vice Premier Fan's temper is getting bigger and bigger, and his words are sharp, pointing to the source of the problem, which is better than Boss Zhu." ”

"What they say is true, but I don't have the courage to bring it up directly." Some people also said.

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