Hanoi: making a difference from the "Bright - Green - Clean" movement

Kinhtedothi - On the afternoon of December 20, the Standing Committee of the Hanoi Party Committee - People's Council - People's Committee held an online conference for the fourth quarter of 2024 with leaders of districts, towns and cities. Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh chaired the conference at the Hanoi Party Committee bridge.

Co-chairing the conference were Standing Committee Member of the City Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Trong Dong; Vice Chairman of the City People's Council Pham Qui Tien.

The conference was held online from the main bridge at the City Party Committee headquarters with a total of 594 bridges and more than 11,313 delegates from the city to wards, communes and towns.

Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh and other city leaders chaired the conference at the Hanoi Party Committee bridge.

The conference discussed strengthening the implementation of measures to improve air quality associated with the implementation of the waste cleaning plan in Hanoi towards a "bright, green, clean, beautiful" city.

Step by step to reduce air pollution

Reporting on the strengthening of measures to improve air quality associated with the implementation of the waste cleaning plan in Hanoi, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Le Thanh Nam said that in recent times, the city has implemented measures to gradually reduce air pollution such as: building a database system, operating a monitoring system to manage and control air quality; minimizing air pollution from sources; strengthening inspection, examination, and propaganda to raise public awareness.

Director of Department of Natural Resources and Environment Le Thanh Nam presented a report at the conference.

There are currently 2 automatic continuous air monitoring stations and 6 sensor stations in operation in the city. The Hanoi People's Committee has directed to continue researching, reviewing, and proposing investment in automatic continuous air monitoring station systems according to the general planning of Hanoi Capital to complete the information system, strengthen management, and control of air quality.

To date, Hanoi has eliminated more than 99% of honeycomb charcoal stoves; reduced 80% of the burning of straw and agricultural by-products in the suburbs, spontaneous burning of garbage; and ended the operation of manual brick kilns. From 2021 to present, in districts and towns, more than 147,500 shade trees, 110,806 ornamental trees and bushes have been planted; 549,449m² of trees and grass.

Regarding garbage collection, transportation and treatment, districts, towns and cities are the direct management units, ensuring the criteria of collecting and transporting all garbage generated during the day in the area to the City's centralized treatment areas.

The rate of collection and transportation of waste generated during the day in the districts is 100%; in the districts and Son Tay town is from 95 - 100%. The total amount of domestic waste generated in the city transferred to the treatment areas is about 6,800 - 7,500 tons/day.

To solve the problem of waste treatment, the city has directed the implementation of many synchronous measures, calling for investment, and socializing waste treatment works and projects using modern technology. The city has put the large-scale and modern Soc Son Waste-to-Energy Plant (processing capacity of 4,000 tons/day, power generation capacity of 90MW) into operation, minimizing landfill. Continue to complete and put into operation the Seraphin Waste-to-Energy Plant Project with a capacity of 37MW in the first quarter of 2025. Complete investment procedures for a number of waste treatment projects in Soc Son, Phu Xuyen, and Chuong My districts.

Conference scene

Regarding the pilot waste classification at source, the People's Committees of districts (Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Dong Da, Hai Ba Trung, Nam Tu Liem) have piloted the model of classifying, collecting, transporting, and treating domestic solid waste and achieved positive results.

Regarding the upcoming tasks, regarding some major targets, the City strives for 100% of districts, towns, and residential areas to organize environmental self-management movements. 100% of districts, towns, departments, agencies, and sectors develop specific plans and solutions to implement waste classification at source, collection, transportation, and treatment of solid waste; proactively select priority subjects and locations to implement models of classification and reduction of domestic solid waste emissions according to the roadmap and evaluate and replicate good models.

Strive for 75 - 80% of days in the year (according to data from national and city standard monitoring stations) to have air quality index (VN_AQI) at good and average levels; control the average annual PM2.5 concentration by 2030 at most standard stations in the inner city below 40ug/Nm3 and below 35ug/Nm3 for suburban areas. 100% of construction sites implement dust reduction measures; 100% of emissions from industrial plants are treated to meet QCVN; 100% of households do not use honeycomb coal stoves or low-grade coal fuels; 100% do not burn straw and agricultural by-products; reduce the burning of votive paper.

Strong sanctions should be applied to environmental violations.

Discussing at the conference, Vice Chairman of Hoan Kiem District People's Committee Le Anh Thu said that recently the district has implemented synchronous measures to collect and transport waste in a civilized and modern manner, applying maximum mechanization. "Currently, Hoan Kiem District has eliminated 45 garbage collection points during the day and people have gradually become aware of throwing garbage at the right time and place" - Ms. Le Anh Thu informed.

Along with that, propaganda and guidance for people to classify waste at source, increase the recycling rate of household waste has been effectively implemented, reaching 100% in 18 wards. In addition, Hoan Kiem Lake has been regularly renovated to ensure hygiene and create a clean environment for people and tourists.

Chairman of Ba Dinh District People's Committee Ta Nam Chien reports at Ba Dinh District bridge

The Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hoan Kiem District proposed that the city support the district in implementing green transport projects such as developing electric buses or public bicycles; investing in more air monitoring stations in key areas to enhance monitoring and early warning capabilities. In particular, he proposed that the city take stronger measures to handle environmental violations to increase deterrence.

At the Ba Dinh District bridge, according to Chairman of the Ba Dinh District People's Committee Ta Nam Chien, since 2019, the district has eliminated honeycomb coal stoves to minimize negative impacts on the environment, so the monitoring index is always within the allowable threshold. In the coming time, the district will pay attention to continue improving the quality of this index level...

At the same time, the district always ensures the collection of waste within the day with a volume of more than 100 thousand tons; reduces 13 waste collection points that cause loss of urban aesthetics; effectively classifies bulky waste and recycles waste. However, the difficulty in ensuring environmental sanitation in the area is changing people's habits regarding waste collection methods. "Along with propaganda, the district has installed 1,500 surveillance cameras, and will soon install 2,850 more cameras to monitor and handle" - Chairman of the People's Committee of Ba Dinh district said.

Director of Department of Construction Vo Nguyen Phong speaks at the conference

Regarding Phu Xuyen district, Chairman of the district People's Committee Le Van Binh informed that the district has many craft villages and Nhue River with a length of 15km running through the area; to minimize dust and air pollution, the district People's Committee directed the police force to regularly inspect vehicles carrying construction materials in the area; spray water to wash provincial roads, national highways, and craft villages; strictly manage straw burning, environmental sanitation, attaching the responsibility of Party Secretaries of communes and towns and Chairmen of People's Committees of communes and towns to environmental sanitation management.

Regarding waste management in craft villages, according to the Chairman of the People's Committee of Phu Xuyen district, this is a common difficulty of craft villages. The district implements socialization, the communes are proactive, using socialized funding from households in craft villages and signing contracts with professional collection units to ensure environmental sanitation for craft villages.

Phu Xuyen District proposed that the Department of Natural Resources and Environment soon have a comprehensive assessment to treat wastewater on rivers, especially the Nhue River; along with that, it proposed that the City allow the establishment of a project, provide funding to invest in the Nhue River embankment in the area to ensure environmental sanitation, prevent repeated violations of construction order, and encroachment on the riverbed in the area. The District also proposed that the City Police increase the handling of vehicles carrying construction materials that do not meet standards to prevent dust from construction sites.

Focus on planting trees to improve the air

Director of the Department of Construction Vo Nguyen Phong said that the solution to improve air quality is to increase tree planting - this is one of the solutions that needs to be focused on. In the past time, the city has synchronously deployed tasks through the issuance of plans, projects and maintenance. The Department of Construction proposed that the People's Committees of districts and towns in the coming time implement the Tet tree planting festival; continue to review to have the volume of empty spaces on roads, streets, and areas where trees can be planted. In particular, restore the area of ​​trees broken in the recent storm No. 3 (storm Yagi).

Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh delivered a concluding speech at the conference.

Concluding the conference, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh highly appreciated the departments and branches for having a firm grasp of the work and proactively implementing it according to the plan. Emphasizing the two contents of implementing the "Bright - Green - Clean - Beautiful" movement and organizing activities for the 2025 New Year and the Lunar New Year of At Ty as the work of the entire political system, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh requested all levels and branches to focus on leadership and direction with many appropriate measures, bringing them into life.

Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh noted that the difference of this Bright - Green - Clean - Beautiful movement is that it is a continuation of previous movements and has no destination, no stopping point, not launched weekly or monthly but continuously every day, every hour for a greener, cleaner, and more beautiful city.

"We must be determined to have fundamental changes within the next 1-2 years, and deeper changes within the next 3-5 years for the problems we are facing" - Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh requested.

To have a clean city, Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh suggested that the way of doing things must change. The entire political system and every citizen must participate in monitoring, organizing and creating a common emulation movement in each block, district and county.

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