CCTV exposed the pollution scene of the ＂pollution park＂ with an output value of 10 billion yuan, which shocked the grain harvest.

　　CCTV News:Neihuang County, Anyang City, Henan Province, is a traditional agricultural county in the northern plain of Henan Province. Since 2009, Neihuang County has invested in a large-scale ceramic industry and introduced a number of ceramic enterprises, which has brought about a ceramic industrial park with an annual output value of more than 10 billion yuan. Business is booming and the industry is booming, which is a good thing, but the local people have been calling the media to complain about the pollution caused by the ceramic industrial park in the village recently, and the people are complaining.

　　UAV shoots ceramic industrial park at an altitude of 200 meters.

　　On March 12, 2018, the reporter came to Neihuang County, Henan Province. In order to verify whether there was any pollution problem in the local ceramic industrial park, the reporter used a drone to shoot the ceramic industrial park in Neihuang County at an altitude of 200 meters. As far as the eye can see, there are many factories and bare white powder piled up everywhere. Neihuang Ceramic Industrial Park is the largest ceramic production base and product distribution center in the Central Plains. The industrial park is divided into two parts, one is the production area and the other is the sales area. Although the production enterprises have not started, the business of large and small ceramic tile sales stores is still very prosperous. Sales staff told us that most of the tiles sold by these stores came from the production enterprises in the park. During the conversation, the reporter hoped to know whether ceramic tile production would pollute the environment. Unexpectedly, the salesperson answered directly.

　　Sales staff of ceramic industrial park in Neihuang County, Henan Province: "The pollution is not small, because there is no way to eat groundwater now. When the country stops production, our side stops during the day and produces at night."

　　The surrounding area of the ceramic park looks like a fire scene from afar.

　　In order to find out the truth, the reporter conducted an investigation in and around Neihuang County Ceramic Industrial Park for several days. Finally, on the evening of March 20th, the reporter smelled a strong and pungent smell around the ceramic park, which was suffocating. The company named "Langer Ceramics Co., Ltd." emitted huge smoke. Even in the night, the smoke was extremely amazing, thick and thick, looking from a distance, like a fire scene, and the air was filled with the choking smell of kerosene.

　　Sewage forms a colorful oil stain on the river.

　　The Xiaohe River is the only river in Neihuang County. On the morning of March 21st, the reporter noticed that the "white" sewage was continuously discharged into the river through a drain. These discharged "white water" have foam on the surface and an unpleasant smell. These are the two outlets under the Xiaohe Bridge, and the sewage has formed a colorful oil stain on the river. We walked along the section of the Nitrate River passing through the ceramic park and found that there were seven similar outlets in total. Some villagers who work in the ceramic factory told reporters that the wastewater generated in the ceramic production process will first be discharged into the sewage pool of the factory, and then slowly seep into the ground. Every rainy day, we will "take the opportunity" to discharge it into the nitrate river next to the ceramic park along the rainwater pipeline.

　　Pollution causes crops to fail to collect groundwater.

　　What impact does the pollution caused by ceramic enterprises have on local people? The reporter saw in an interview with Xiaotun Village, the nearest village to the west side of the ceramic industrial park, that the villagers told us about their experiences one after another. Near the ceramic industrial park, the wheat began to turn yellow.

　　Local villagers: "The wheat is too small to be obvious, the pepper is obvious, the fruit is on top, and the wheat is wrapped in a shell. It was obvious as soon as the ceramic factory started. The smoke it emits is glazed in the factory, and the corn is covered with white powder, which is the same as frost. It doesn’t bear ears, and red peppers don’t bear peppers. "

　　The crops in the fields near the ceramic factory are almost never harvested.

　　The villagers told reporters that in recent years, almost all the crops in the fields near the ceramic factory have been harvested every autumn. In the eyes of the villagers, the "culprit" that caused the grain harvest was the "smoke" coming out of the chimney of the ceramic factory. Besides air pollution, the local people are more afraid of the water discharged from the ceramic factory. In the village of Dadikou, which is just across the river from the ceramic park. The groundwater in the village has been polluted, and the water quality of the well water, which was originally clear and bright, has become worse and worse, and it can only be used for washing clothes or feeding animals. As a last resort, the villagers can only go far and near, and dig wells from other villages dozens of miles away. In this villager’s home, he specially pumped a bucket of water from his well more than 30 meters deep.

　　The groundwater is dirty, and there are oily floating objects on the water surface.

　　In order to prove to the reporter that the pollution he suffered was absolutely true, the villager deliberately burned a pot of hot water. Just after heating, the reporter found that a layer of floating objects like oil stains appeared on the water surface, and a lot of scale appeared at the bottom. During the investigation, the reporter visited several villages around the ceramic industrial park. The dirty groundwater can be seen everywhere, and the groundwater in Xizhangbao Village, located on the east side of the ceramic industrial park, has also been seriously polluted. The staff of Guardian Ceramics Co., Ltd. admitted that there was water pollution in the park.

　　Ceramic factories issue "pollution fees" according to the distance.

　　In addition, during the interview, the villagers all mentioned a "pollution fee" issued by the ceramic factory. They told reporters that according to the distance between each field and the ceramic factory, the ceramic factory subsidizes the expenses ranging from 20 yuan to 100 yuan per mu.

　　Reducing cost to avoid "coal to gas" sewage treatment is not up to standard

　　In fact, the environmental protection department has clearly stipulated the emission limits of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter in ceramic industrial enterprises. Then, have the production enterprises in Neihuang County Ceramic Industrial Park strictly implemented the emission standards of pollutants in ceramic industry and installed environmental protection facilities such as desulfurization, denitrification and dust removal?

　　salesman: "One of our factories, the smallest one, has to use 300 to 400 tons of coal. If it is a big factory, it has to reach the concept of 500 to 800 tons. Air pollution, smog and desulfurization will not work, and it will also exceed the standard. You can desulfurize during the day, and I’m still discharging at night. This thing, there is no way, if you want to reduce costs, you can only do this. "

　　Cost-reducing enterprises steal sewage at night

　　The salesperson who claimed to be Neihuang Jiade Ceramics Co., Ltd. told the reporter that in order to reduce costs, enterprises can only use night smuggling. However, if clean energy natural gas is used, it is relatively easier to meet the requirements in the standard, but it will inevitably lead to an increase in the cost of tiles. According to insiders’ calculation, if "changing coal into gas" is implemented in Neihuang production area, the production cost of ceramic enterprises will increase by 18%, and the cost of a tile will increase by 50 cents. For cost reasons, up to now, there are still many ceramic enterprises in Neihuang Ceramic Park that have not changed from coal to gas.

　　Besides the potential waste gas pollution, how do the ceramic factories in Neihuang Ceramic Industrial Park treat their production wastewater? This is a report in Henan Daily in 2016, which clearly reads: "The sewage treatment project in the south of Neihuang City, with an investment of 28 million yuan, can treat 5,000 tons of sewage every day, which can basically meet the sewage treatment needs of ceramic parks. While promoting the transformation and upgrading of the ceramic industry, the project has also achieved both economic and environmental benefits." Two years have passed, has this sewage treatment project with an investment of 28 million yuan been completed, and is it treating industrial wastewater generated by ceramic factories? With all kinds of questions, the reporter came to Bishuiyuan Sewage Treatment Plant in Neihuang Ceramic Park.

　　The staff of several sewage treatment plants told reporters that this sewage treatment plant was put into operation in the second half of 2017. Due to the limitations of the process, it was only responsible for treating the domestic sewage in the ceramic factory. As for where the industrial wastewater generated by the ceramic factory went, they did not know.

　　Functional departments shirk environmental pollution and lack supervision

　　The reporter learned in the Neihuang County Water Affairs Bureau that in the Neihuang County Ceramic Industrial Park, the drain that the reporter saw was not built by government departments, but was built privately. The staff of the Neihuang County Water Affairs Bureau also suggested that the reporter report to the Environmental Protection Office of the Ceramic Park. According to the address provided by the staff of the Water Affairs Bureau, the reporter found the "Zhongyuan Porcelain Capital Environmental Protection Institute".

　　As soon as I entered the door, the reporter thought I was in the wrong place, and the environmental inspection department was located in the marketing hall of the ceramic production enterprise. As an environmental volunteer, the reporter met the person in charge of "Zhongyuan Porcelain Capital Environmental Protection Institute". In the face of a reporter’s question, the person in charge of Zhongyuan Porcelain Capital Environmental Protection Institute told the reporter that the responsibility of Zhongyuan Porcelain Capital Environmental Protection Institute is to check the sewage discharge and air pollution of production enterprises, but when the reporter reported that the enterprise had secretly discharged sewage and secretly built sewage outlets to discharge industrial wastewater directly into the river as an environmental volunteer, the person in charge said that they were "unaware" of the number of sewage outlets under the Xiaohe Bridge and the pollution situation. Neihuang county monitors the groundwater around the ceramic park every year, and has never found any pollution problems. In the face of such an answer, the reporter suggested that it was less than one kilometer from the enterprise to the "Zhongyuan Porcelain Capital Environmental Protection Institute", hoping to take environmental inspectors to check it on the spot, but I didn’t expect it to be rejected by the staff of the Environmental Protection Institute.

　　During the interview, the villagers told reporters that since nearly 90% of the laborers around the ceramic factory are working in the factory, on the one hand, they are polluted hometown, and on the other hand, they are worried about the future, and more are helpless.

　　villager: "Ceramic factory has certain advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that there is a place to work and earn money, so you don’t have to go out, especially for women. The downside is that the pollution is too strong. "

　　On the one hand, it is a polluted environment, and on the other hand, it is an important source of local tax revenue. Which is more important? This is indeed a multiple-choice question before the local people and the local government. However, a good ecological environment is the fundamental foundation for the sustainable development of people and society. I hope the local government can do this multiple-choice question well, and don’t destroy the homes of future generations for the sake of immediate achievements and immediate interests.