[Comprehensive] Under the pressure of environmental protection, textile printing and dyeing companies face a dilemma

At present, nationwide, the national environmental protection supervision has carried out three rounds, and the limelight continues unabated. At the same time, provincial, municipal, county, and multi-level environmental protection inspections have been carried out in all areas. Under the pressure of environmental protection, wherever the storm has gone, including the textile printing and dyeing industry, companies have cut off water and electricity due to a large area, workers have been suspended from work, and their livelihoods are worrying! There is a bit of sadness. In Sanhe City, Hebei Province, there are even more business owners and employees pulling banner protests!

Some textile company owners lament: Environmental protection and strict inspection, this is understandable, but in the current capacity, raw materials soaring, sports, one-size-fits-all environmental protection gradually flavored, a massive "operation to defend the blue sky" has become numerous private enterprises wail. We are afraid that every morning when the sun rises, police cars outside the factories, law enforcement vehicles, even plain clothes, and even drones will be deployed.

Small and medium-sized textile enterprises have stopped production, lost their jobs, and the masses have complained!

Many small and medium-sized textile enterprises have all their owners in their factories. Numerous workers are burdened with the pressure of mortgages, auto loans, support for the family, and pensions. The government has adopted a one-size-fits-all approach to make many non-polluting companies forced to close down, even The shop where tofu and breakfast were also closed. All of a sudden, it caused public discontent.

Some companies stated:

The government advocates environmental protection that suits the actual people's livelihood, but it is necessary to guide the enterprises to make reasonable and orderly transformations so that ordinary people can't see the portraits of government officials entering the village. Now, which size chemical company is not the door is locked!

It cannot be said that it is the manufacturer's fault. Some law enforcement officers are indeed barbarous. Without these people's right to speak, the environment is to be organized. Does that also require a process?

There must be continuity in policies, a policy today, waiting for you to rectify your investment; another policy tomorrow, the last rectification will not work! One department is the same, no one dared to stand, for their own veil hat, the above chanting chanting swearing on, a word "off!" In fact, it is lazy politics, inaction!

Some private enterprises feel unfairly treated, saying:

If the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is polluted, it will be the same as the human body if it administers the surrounding areas. The food is enjoyed by the mouth and the disease is shared by other organs.

They are the masters of the feathered arrows, so many large-scale polluting companies, chemical plants, thermal power plants, steel mills, etc., are specializing in private companies. What are their intentions?

In order to protect the environment, we must start from the source, not call coal burning, shut down the coal mine, stop the smoke factory, and pound PetroChina. Take Tianjin as an example. Thousands of small and micro chemical companies in various regions were shut down. How many people are unemployed? What kind of government or department did they think about their lives?

Some enterprise employees also expressed their deep concern:

The land was transferred, and the factory was shut down. I do not know if tomorrow will be the same for the common people. How can the children go to school, support the elderly, and even provide basic food and clothing?

In this way, the society becomes more chaotic. How many factories, companies, how many workers are laid off, children need to go to school, parents need good education, what should we do?

Now the self-employed small businesses are basically people after the 70s and 80s, shouldering the livelihoods of a family of three generations old and young. This way, how can we live alive!

In fact, for the environmental protection storm that has been branded as a "one size fits all, sport-style" brand, many private enterprise owners have quite a few remarks. One of the most grieved business owners said:

In November last year, the EPA claimed that coal-fired boilers must be equipped with filtering devices to ensure that the chimneys emit white smoke and that they must first pay a fine of 50,000 yuan. In handling the EIA report, when people are nervously spending more than 20 months in a month Millions of yuan went through environmental assessments and conversions of coal-fired boilers, but the environmental protection department claimed to have limited production.

In February of this year, the National Development Conference required all industrial power companies to stop production, and there were no documents or reports. Once they had been investigated and detained for fines, they were forbearing for several days. People after the conference rushed to work overnight because the delay was too long. However, after April 1st, people were completely desperate. The country set up Xiong'an New District, and all the companies that were in compliance with the turmoil were demolished (regardless of whether or not you reported it). The people must completely replace the gas stoves.

After five months, the national policy has undergone changes in the hinterland. Will the country consider the life and death of ordinary people? What do we companies do? Go to Xiongxin District to open a university? Or does it make people who have not graduated from junior high school engage in high technology? I want to laugh when I think about it...but I can't laugh.

Of course there are also rational voices:

The policy of the Central Government is good. To remedy pollution by the environment, it is only a matter of methodological measures. It cannot be implemented across the board, and shutting down so many enterprises is not a solution.

Under the background of the country's vigorous efforts to carry out environmental protection and renovation, the loud exhortations of these private business owners obviously cannot change the direction of this historical torrent. However, the people have to breathe even more livelihoods, and also ask the relevant authorities to conduct serious environmental protection inspections while carefully investigating the losses of the owners of the private enterprises and the survival of the employees!

SMEs have been hit hard and the tragedy is still going on...

According to statistics from relevant state departments, there are currently 40 million SMEs in China, accounting for 99% of the total number of enterprises, which contributes 60% of China's GDP, 50% of taxes and 80% of urban employment. Similarly, in the world, SMEs are the main force of a country’s economy and the most valued group. In the EU, there are more than 20 million SMEs, accounting for 99.8% of the total number of EU enterprises. Of these, 92.2% were micro-enterprises with less than 10 employees.

In the past two years, Prime Minister Li Keqiang's "Entrepreneurship for All Peoples, Innovation for All" is in fact a training for innovative small, medium and micro enterprises. Therefore, it is hoped that the SME owners will not rely on their own merits. The Chinese economy will have to develop and eventually it will depend on SMEs.

From 2016 to 2017, under the background of capacity-reduction and supply-side reforms, a large number of SMEs, including the textile printing and dyeing industry, have become targets of capacity reduction, especially when the SMEs are under pressure. Shut down.

Last year, the price surge in the chemical market was not driven by a rebound in demand, but more like the tide of price increases caused by the sudden concentration of energy in the upstream material companies caused by environmental protection and capacity reduction. This explosive price increase is difficult to transmit to the terminal companies, causing many mid- and small-scale chemical companies to collapse due to capital chain breaks, order shifts and other reasons.

The official Xinhua News Agency and the CEO of the chemical giant questioned the "environmental protection storm" across the board

At present, the Central Environmental Protection Inspector is carrying out vigorously and has already seen remarkable results. However, from the economic development point of view, there have been restrictions on the speed of economic growth. How can we have a more harmonious environmental policy? How can we more economically balance economic, social and environmental benefits?

Not long ago, Dow Chemical Co., chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical, said: "If excessive environmental supervision will scare off investors, it will not be able to introduce technology and innovation that are beneficial to our environmental protection work."

Then, how to achieve reasonable environmental supervision is worthy of consideration by each of us.

Under the background of the country's vigorous efforts to carry out environmental protection and renovation, the loud exhortations of these business owners obviously cannot change the direction of this historical torrent. However, the people must breathe even more for a livelihood. They also asked the relevant departments to conduct serious investigations while carrying out environmental protection remediation, especially the survival of small and medium-sized private chemical companies and employees!

In fact, as early as April of this year, Xinhua News Agency claimed that: “Environmental protection management can't be a one-size-fits-all” article on environmental protection supervision “on the one hand” questioned.

The article points out that the fight against air pollution prevention and control is not only a political task, a public-minded project, but also a booster for promoting the transformation and upgrading of enterprises and achieving clean production. According to a recent survey conducted by a provincial industrial authority, some localities implemented environmental protection and control measures. Regardless of whether or not the company meets the environmental standards, it will implement peak-to-peak production and production shutdowns, and some of the compliance enterprises will be shut down for four months. In response to this phenomenon, experts in the industry believe that environmental management and control should be accurately implemented and create a good management and control orientation.

According to the Xinhua News Agency's article, the most simple and most convenient way to implement the environmental protection management and control by “crossing the industry” and “by setting up boundaries in the region” is also very effective in relieving sudden haze. However, in order to promote the coordinated development of environmental protection and economy, it is necessary to further improve the measures for carrying out a long-term and tough battle against atmospheric pollution.

Good environmental management and control measures are the vane of enterprise transformation and upgrading. It is necessary to strictly implement the national environmental protection standards and guide enterprises to promote the elimination of outdated processes and production capacity, and achieve clean production and discharge standards. We will give strong support to enterprises that meet the standards of environmental protection, promote their healthy development, and seize the market opportunities. We must resolutely rectify and promote the reform and upgrade of enterprises that do not meet environmental standards, or they will be shut down. If equal control measures are implemented without distinction, it is difficult to play the role of survival of the fittest.

Many places put forward the goal of “striving for more than half of good weather in a year”, which is naturally a good thing. However, it does not change the production methods of enterprises with high energy consumption and high pollution, there is no regional coordinated management, there is no strict supervision and accountability, and it is probably a kind of extravagant hope to achieve a fundamental improvement in air quality.

It is everyone's responsibility to control air pollution, the public needs to participate, and enterprises must play the role. The responsibility of the government management department is even more significant. Not only must there be mid-term goals and short-term goals, but also there must be specific measures for rewards and punishment, in order to prevent the emergence of “defective persons”. Wide, conscientious and strict "reverse elimination.

How should companies respond to environmental supervision?

Environmental monitoring will generally check the contents:

1. Production status of the company

Industry and main products

Last month's products and production capacity, whether there are operations on each line. Whether business owners are building illegally or not and whether they are consistent with the EIA. Whether there is additional pollutants such as waste gas, waste water, solid waste, etc.

2. Implementation of corporate environmental protection

Whether the project complies with the environmental assessment procedures according to law, and reviews the EIA documents and the EIA approval. (Environmental law enforcement officers or inspectors come to the company or the EPA to check the environmental assessment documents) to check whether the site's on-site pollution control measures are generally consistent with the environmental impact assessment. Does the environmental impact assessment document (EIA) involve fraud? (Note: The penalties imposed by the two high environmental judicial interpretations on environmental protection falsification: Environmental impact assessment agencies or their personnel, who intentionally provide false environmental impact assessment documents, are in serious circumstances, or are seriously irresponsible, and the documents on environmental impact assessment issued are seriously inaccurate. If serious consequences are caused, it shall be convicted and punished on the basis of the provision of false certification documents or the issuance of certification documents that are substantially inaccurate in accordance with the provisions of Articles 229 and 231 of the Criminal Law.)

Check whether the nature of the project, the scale of production, the location, the production process adopted, or the pollution control measures used are the same as those of the EIA and approval documents. After the approval of the EIA for the construction of the project only five years later, whether it will be reapproved for the EIA.

After the project was put into operation, it was checked whether it was completed. The completion of environmental protection completion procedures is complete. Whether the company has pollution control facilities put into production without acceptance by the environmental protection department.

Workshop: Whether the raw materials of the super or raw materials involved in acid, alkali, and other corrosive workshop surfaces are treated with anti-corrosion treatment and regularly maintained. Whether there is a leaking site during the production process.