Ba Chẽ: Efforts to protect the environment

In addition to socio-economic development, Ba Chẽ district always pays attention to the protection of natural resources and the environment, focusing on preventing, controlling, and mitigating environmental pollution in the area.

The model of planting teak and mahogany trees interspersed with cinnamon trees by the family of Mr. Ninh Van Nam (Thanh Son commune, Ba Che district).

With the perspective of prioritizing environmental protection and the health of the people, Ba Chẽ district is enhancing the role of Party committees at all levels, heads of Party committees, government agencies, and specialized agencies in environmental protection management. In April 2024, the Ba Chẽ District Party Committee issued Resolution No. 11-NQ/HU on strengthening the Party's leadership over resource management.   Environmental protection , disaster prevention and mitigation associated with the protection of the Ba Chẽ River, period 2022-2025, with a vision to 2030.

Based on the common goal   To protect the environment , minimize the impact of natural disasters, droughts, and floods, and improve water quality, with a focus on protecting the Ba Chẽ River water source, the district has identified six specific task groups, focusing on the following contents: Strengthening the leadership, direction, and organization of implementation by Party committees and authorities at all levels; improving the management capacity and organization of the implementation of plans, programs, and projects for infrastructure and socio-economic development associated with environmental protection; focusing on measures to control the quality of the existing environment; strengthening the protection of water resources and improving the quality of the Ba Chẽ River water source; environmental protection in conjunction with building new rural areas and civilized urban areas; and improving the effectiveness of propaganda work, promoting the supervisory and critical role of the Fatherland Front and political and social organizations.

Simultaneously, the district is stepping up the dissemination of the Party and State's policies and laws on environmental protection to the people and businesses through various forms, so that everyone has a clear and full understanding of their responsibility towards green and sustainable growth.

Above   Based on local practical experience, Ba Chẽ continues to decisively direct the concretization of Resolution No. 10-NQ/TU dated September 26, 2022, of the Provincial Party Committee on strengthening the Party's leadership over resource management, environmental protection, disaster prevention and mitigation, climate change adaptation, and ensuring water security for the period 2022-2030. The district directs the effective management and operation of 7 centralized waste treatment areas, 8 waste collection and transfer points in 6 communes and villages, and 160 pits for collecting and treating hazardous waste such as packaging and bottles containing pesticides in people's production areas to ensure environmental protection in residential areas .

The Khe Muoi reservoir water treatment plant (Nam Son commune, Ba Che district) provides clean water to nearly 600 households.

Ba Chẽ has directed and promoted the practice of sorting household waste at source among residents in all communes and villages, reaching 2,732 out of 5,618 households (48.63%). It has also strengthened and maintained 25 models for recycling organic matter and agricultural by-products (composting) in all 8 communes and towns, with one centralized composting site, 304 pits, and 524 composting bins for organic waste collected from household production and activities, involving a total of 829 members. Furthermore, it has directed and encouraged households engaged in livestock farming, from small-scale to medium-scale, to have environmentally friendly waste collection and treatment systems; and focused on planting trees and large timber trees along roads, rivers, streams, and in upstream water areas to ensure water security.

Since the beginning of the year, Ba Chẽ has completed the repair and upgrading of several centralized clean water projects, putting them into operation: the clean water systems in Đồng Loong, Đồng Tiến, and Thanh Lâm villages; the Khe 10 lake water treatment plant; the Khe Lọng lake water treatment plant in Thanh Sơn; the clean water systems in Tàu Tiên, Khe Mằn, Làng Cổng, and Lang Cang villages (Đồn Đạc commune); and the domestic water systems in Khe Nà and Khe Pụt villages (Thanh Sơn commune). A new clean water supply project has commenced in Nam Sơn commune. The percentage of rural residents using clean water according to standards increased from 54.6% to 72%, an increase of 17.4 percentage points compared to 2022 (an increase of 778 households). Comprehensive solutions for providing clean water to the people have been implemented; the percentage of households using hygienic domestic water has reached 99.9%.

The people of Don Dac commune (Ba Che district) are planting bougainvillea to create a bright, green, clean, and beautiful rural road.   (Photo: Ba Chẽ Information and Culture Center)

At the same time, Ba Chẽ is stepping up propaganda and mobilization efforts to encourage people to develop the planting of large timber forests, native trees, and medicinal plants, aiming to make forestry a key economic sector, as well as create sustainable livelihoods for the people, greening barren hills, protecting water resources and the living environment.   On average, the district plants more than 3,300 hectares of new forest each year, with a forest cover rate of 72.2%, making Ba Chẽ the leading locality in the province in forest development.   In 2024, according to the plan, Ba Chẽ district will plant 3,500 hectares of forest, including 200 hectares of large timber forest.   In the first six months of 2024, Ba Chẽ planted over 3,200 hectares of forest, a 14% increase compared to the same period in 2023. Of this, 130.8 hectares were planted with large timber trees, reaching nearly 65% ​​of the plan; 240 hectares were planted with native trees, exceeding the planned 300 hectares; and notably, key local tree species such as acacia have been planted to date, reaching 2,700 hectares out of a planned 2,950 hectares.

In parallel, Ba Chẽ district is also strengthening inspections and promptly handling violations of environmental protection laws and illegal mining and transportation of minerals.

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