4 | Tuesday, January 29, 2019 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Walking In pilot, seeks to the block create a world­class zone The 18th Mianzhu Lunar New Year Block Print Fes­ tival opened in Mianzhu, of ecological civilization province, on Monday. The annual fes­ tival focuses on culture By MA ZHIPING in Haikou and tourism develop­ [email protected] ment, with a view toward The proposed introducing the Mianzhu Hainan province will seek people and drawing visi­ greater cooperation with leading tropical rainforest tors closer to local cul­ international institutions and park would cover ture’s glamour in think tanks as it creates a world­ conjunction with the class ecological civilization zone more than 4,400 Spring Festival. using international standards, a square kilometers, HUA XIAOFENG / FOR CHINA DAILY senior environmental official said at a news conference on with 39 townships Monday. in nine cities and While launching a large num­ ber of projects to help safeguard counties.” the top quality of its air, water Xia Fei, and soil resources this year, Hain­ director of the Hainan Forestry an will turn to ecologically excel­ Department lent countries to learn from their experience and draw medium­ and long­term plans for construc­ tion of the Hainan pilot ecologi­ Lingshui, Ledong and Wanning, LOCAL TWO SESSIONS cal civilization zone, said Deng all located in the middle of the Xiaogang, director of the Hainan tropical island.” Provincial Ecology and Environ­ He said that by 2020, Hainan is ment Department. expected to complete all the pilot At a meeting in on systems needed for building the talks about trash Wednesday of the Central Com­ tropical rain forest national park, mittee of the Communist Party of the 11th for the country. China on deepening overall Before Hainan, China had set Final draft of rules requiring people reform, the implementation plan up 10 pilot national parks, involv­ for the (Hainan) National Pilot ing 12 provinces and cities, to sort, recycle garbage nears vote Ecological Civilization Zone was including , , , approved, along with a plan for , , Beijing, Yun­ By XING YI in Shanghai articles, sets requirements for the Hainan Tropical Rainforest Pilot nan, Sichuan, , , Ji­ [email protected] discard, collection, transport and National Park. lin and . treatment of domestic garbage to The goal is to firmly establish Hainan has been chosen for its Tea leaves go into bins for wet gar­ reduce the overall volume, increase and fully implement the concept national strategic value of being a bage. Paper cups go into one for recycling and avoid contamination. of “green water and green hills biological gene bank, said Xia. recyclables. Hotels are not allowed to provide are gold and silver mountains” As the only tropical island Legislators at the ongoing session disposable slippers and shower caps and accumulate experience for province in China, Hainan boasts of Shanghai People’s Congress are if not requested by guests. Restau­ the construction of ecological civ­ rare rainforest resources, ecosys­ practicing trash classification as rants and food delivery businesses ilization across China. tems and biodiversity. It has more they review the city’s first regulation should not provide free disposable Hainan has been vigorously than 4,000 vascular plants, of on domestic garbage management. chopsticks and cutlery. Government promoting construction of the which more than 600 are unique The final draft of the regulation and public institutions are not national rainforest park since last to Hainan. There are more than will come up for a vote on Thursday, allowed to use disposable cups. year, said Xia Fei, director of the 2,500 kinds of medicinal plants, and it’s likely to be approved, which Garbage classification is a key Hainan Forestry Department. and more than 800 kinds of will help the city deal with its ever­ part of the regulation. It requires Xia said Hainan will speed up medicinal plants have high eco­ growing pile of domestic garbage — people to sort household trash into the drafting of general and spe­ nomic value. There are more than about 26,000 metric tons every day. four categories — dry garbage, cial plans for the development of 20 species of rare plants protect­ Xiao Guiyu, deputy director of the kitchen waste, recyclables and haz­ Waste sorting bins are set up in the rest area outside the Shanghai the park, scientifically delineate ed at the national level. standing committee of the munici­ ardous waste — and those who fail Municipal People’s Congress venue at the Shanghai World Expo Exhi­ borders and carry out a good reg­ Hainan has drawn a red line of pal congress, said legislators have to do so will be fined up to 200 yuan bition and Convention Center on Sunday. YIN LIQIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICES istration of natural resources. special protection around 27.3 solicited opinions from more than ($30). For companies and institu­ “The first batch of ecological percent of its land area and 35.1 20,000 citizens and collected 30,000 tions, the fine can go up to 50,000 relocations will start this year,” percent of its sea area, where con­ surveys since 2017, and the latest yuan. In addition, transport opera­ becomes law, it will send a clear ried about the implementation of Xia said. “The proposed tropical struction that will harm the local draft is the result of several revi­ tors can refuse to pick up trash if it’s message to people, and help form a the regulation. Zhang Jinxiu, a dep­ rainforest park would cover more environment strictly forbidden, sions. not properly sorted. trash­sorting habit,” Shen said. uty from Xianxia Property Manage­ than 4,400 square kilometers, even if it might bring economic “To process more than 9 million Shen Yingdi, a deputy from a Chen Haojie, a deputy from Gao­ ment Company, said trash stations with 39 townships in nine cities benefits to the island, said Ding tons of domestic garbage every year neighborhood in Changning dis­ jie Environment Cleaning Service, in many old residential communi­ and counties, including Wuzhi­ Shijiang, director of the Hainan puts a lot of pressure on the city’s trict, said the government has said he appreciated the regulation’s ties were not designed to hold differ­ shan, Qiongzhong, Baisha, Provincial Natural Resources and environment and sustainable devel­ launched several garbage classifica­ emphasis on garbage management, ent types of trash, and she suggested Changjiang, Dongfang, Baoting, Planning Department. opment,” Xiao said in his briefing on tion campaigns in past years, but because if garbage is well­sorted at renovations for old trash stations the regulation at the plenary meet­ the idea was not transformed into the source, it makes each subse­ and making standardized trash sta­ ing of the congress on Sunday. lasting habits by residents. quent step easier. tions mandatory for new real estate The regulation, consisting of 65 “If the regulation is approved and However, some people are wor­ projects. Fake doctor jailed six Exploitation of plateau lakes will end, vows years for raping woman By CHINA DAILY when she discovered what had By LI YINGQING in Kunming and will be extended to reduce pollution violators and has pushed the prov­ happened, but Luo took away her ZHENG JINRAN in Beijing from industries and farmland, rath­ ince to escalate its pollution control A fake doctor in Chengdu who mobile phone. Luo also tried to er than merely reducing pollutants measures this year. raped a female patient after inject­ convince Li not to call the police, Legislators in Yunnan province We will continue to in the lakes, Ruan said. “The governor’s vow to protect ing her with a sedative has been but she refused. said “revolutionary” steps will be protect the nine major It is unacceptable for authorities nine major lakes with revolutionary jailed for six years and four Li screamed to attract the atten­ taken this year, including shutting to carry out the project passively, measures came at the right time, months and fined 4,000 yuan tion of other staff members and down tourism­related businesses in lakes on the plateau, which means measures can only and will play a critical role in reduc­ ($590). left the room after they arrived. sensitive areas around major lakes and take take place after money arrives from ing pollution in the coming years,” Prosecutors accused Luo Ping of She then called the police. Luo fled to preserve the natural environ­ revolutionary higher authorities, the governor Yang Fuquan, a senior researcher at rape, robbery and using false iden­ the scene and dropped Li’s mobile ment. said, adding that new approaches the Yunnan Academy of Social Sci­ tification documents. He was con­ phone and his work clothes into a The move will illustrate the pro­ measures this year.” will be adopted to improve the allo­ ences, said on Monday. victed this month by the trash can. He then fled Chengdu vince’s rejection of the current cation for pollution control funds. He added the pollutants dis­ Shuangliu District People’s Court and was arrested in Nanchong on Ruan Chengfa, destructive model under which Yunnan’s governor This year, Yunnan plans to allo­ charged from the massive hotels in Chengdu, Sichuan province, the May 12. tourism leads to exploitation, depu­ cate around 18.7 billion yuan ($2.8 and other buildings were a major website of Hongxing News report­ Investigators said he used a ties of the Yunnan People’s Congress billion) to support protection of the source of pollution for Erhai Lake, ed on Monday. false identification card and doc­ said on Monday. major body of water, had been nine major plateau lakes. Those and the provincial effort to forbid The rape victim, surnamed Li, tor’s qualification and practice City governments have enacted demolished as of Dec 31, according lakes — including Dianchi, Erhai exploitation could help prevent pol­ went to the hospital in Shuangliu certificates when he applied for a stricter regulations to help with the to the city government. More con­ and Lugu Lake — are major resour­ lution in other lakes. district where Luo worked in May. job with the hospital. protection efforts. For example, in trols will be enacted this year, it said. ces that support rich biodiversity. The water quality of Erhai Lake Luo took her into an examination Luo worked at the hospital Lijiang, near Lugu Lake, all ports, “We will continue to protect the However, they have been hurt by increased to Grade II — the second­ room and injected her with a seda­ from 2016 to 2018. hotels and other buildings inside the nine major lakes on the plateau, and severe pollution — an effect of highest grade — in November. It was tive and then raped her after she core protection zone will be ordered take revolutionary measures this exploitation by the tourism industry the first time lake had achieved such lost consciousness. Yang Zekun contributed to this to move out, said Cui Maohu, the year,” said Ruan Chengfa, Yunnan’s and real estate — according to a a good level since 2015, according to Li wanted to call the police story. city’s Party chief and a member of governor, on Sunday as the provin­ statement from the Ministry of Ecol­ the provincial environmental moni­ the provincial people’s congress. cial people’s congress annual ses­ ogy and Environment in October. toring institute. In Dali, a popular tourism desti­ sion opened. The long­existing pollution prob­ Briefly nation, all 1,806 buildings inside the Construction around the lakes will lems have motivated the province to Contact the writers at zhengjinran@ protection zone of Erhai Lake, a be banned and protective measures take tough punitive action against chinadaily.com.cn BEIJING Enhanced protection Charity foundation of IPR suggested Big data to help workforce mobility, innovation funds poverty fight China’s political advisers on Mon­ China Siyuan Foundation for Pov­ day called for more efforts to erty Alleviation said on Monday enhance protection of intellectual By CHENG SI competition. Sixteen measures are ment or State­run units will be based mechanism lays a solid that it had spent more than 250 property. They put forward their [email protected] included in the guideline to help accessible to talent actively serving foundation for the orderly mobility million yuan ($37 million) to fight suggestions at a biweekly consul­ improve the job market, such as bet­ in nonpublic companies, it said. of talent and job­seekers. poverty last year. The foundation tation session presided over by top A national big­data platform for ter legal regulation of the market The guideline added that talent in “The job market … matched 203 was established by the Central political adviser Wang Yang. A human resources will be created to and offering talent more quality ser­ State­level key areas such as infor­ million jobs to job hunters and job Committee of the China National total of 18 advisers and experts promote the orderly mobility of tal­ vices. mation technology and aerospace hoppers,” the official said. Democratic Construction Associa­ spoke of the need to strengthen ent and encourage innovation, Apart from building the national engineering, or those working in By the end of 2017, the number of tion in 2007, to prompt enterprise IPR protection as a university dis­ according to a guideline published big­data platform for human backcountry areas, such as Qinghai employees nationwide reached engagement in poverty relief and cipline, set up a talent pool and by the Ministry of Human Resour­ resources, the ministry also aims to province in Northwest China, are about 776 million, 370,000 more other charity projects. Around 2 build a professional and interna­ ces and Social Security on Monday. build a mechanism for forecasting required to submit applications for than in 2016. Of those, more than million people benefited from a tional IPR protection team. They The guideline stresses “the deci­ the demand for talent and giving approval if they want to change jobs. 424 million worked in urban areas, number of public welfare pro­ also proposed putting more effort sive role” of the market in promot­ out early warnings, and to compile a In a news release, an unnamed the ministry said. grams under the foundation last into publicity and education, and ing talent mobility, while saying that catalog concerning talent that is official of the ministry’s department It said that 13.6 million jobs were year, ranging from those in medi­ improving people’s IPR protection the government will play a role in urgently needed. of human resource mobility man­ created last year, 100,000 more than cal care and education to industry awareness. macro­control and protecting fair More channels for jobs in govern­ agement, said an improved market­ in 2017. support in rural areas, it said. XINHUA