There are more and more deserts and less and less green space. What do you think?

Countermeasures and suggestions to prevent desertification

1. Strict legal discipline and punish administrative corruption

Since the reform and opening up, my country's legal system construction has entered a new stage. Lots of laws and regulations. Related to the prevention and control of desertification are the Environmental Protection Law, Forest Law, Grassland Law, and Soil and Water Conservation Law. Currently, the "Prevention and Control of Desertification" is being formulated, and a series of laws supporting these laws have also been formulated. regulations.

The reason why these laws and regulations are called laws and regulations is because they are authoritative, serious and mandatory. In a legal society, there is no power above the law. Substituting words for law and power for law is itself illegal and cannot be tolerated by the law. Therefore, any behavior that violates laws and regulations (including government behavior) must be punished and corrected in accordance with the law. Otherwise, the law will not become the law and will only encourage administrative corruption and disrupt social order.

However, in our government departments at all levels, there are always people who regard the power given by the people as personal privileges, as if laws and regulations are formulated for the common people and are specially used to discipline the common people. Can't restrain myself. Whatever is in line with the interests of oneself and the department will be administered in accordance with the law; otherwise, they will do everything possible to bypass "policy obstacles" and even find various excuses to set aside laws and regulations. It should be said that it is this kind of administrative corruption in law enforcement departments that has exacerbated the damage to our country's natural resources and ecological environment.

It is recommended that the National People's Congress carry out a targeted inspection of law enforcement on laws and regulations related to environmental protection under the theme of "Western Development, Ecology First", so as to promptly correct problems that arise in the law enforcement of governments at all levels and avoid In history, the tragedy of large-scale development causing great ecological damage is repeated.

2. Decision-making on environmental issues must be forward-looking and forward-thinking

my country’s decision to protect natural forests and ban logging of natural forests in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Yellow River was made in 1996. The decision to ban the mining and sale of Nostoc and stop the indiscriminate digging of licorice and ephedra was also made after the sandstorms and blowing sand weather disasters successively hit the Beijing area in the spring of 2000. They all made up their minds after paying a heavy price. In fact, whether it is floods or droughts, as early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, scholars and media had issued warnings such as "the Yangtze River is in danger of turning into the Yellow River" and "sandstorms are approaching Beijing." Our country's top decision-makers are not turning a deaf ear, but because it involves a wide range of social interest groups, and the government's financial support capacity is limited, it is difficult to make a prompt decision. However, all ecological and environmental problems have a kind of "superimposed benefit", which is just to treat the headache and the foot. If it is not fundamentally solved, it can only achieve half the result with twice the result. It is impossible to curb the accelerated pace of environmental deterioration, and once it is managed in the future , the cost will be higher, and the price will be more severe, far exceeding the immediate and temporary benefits at the expense of the ecological environment.

It is recommended that the State Council establish an expert advisory group and early warning and forecasting system for various ecological and environmental issues, including desertification, to provide scientific basis for high-level decision-making by government departments.

3. Increase national capital investment in desertification prevention and control

China’s desertification control projects have long been underinvested by the state. During the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" period, the state invested only more than 100 million yuan in desertification control funds, and local matching funds were difficult to implement because desert areas are mostly "old, minority, border and poor" areas and local financial resources are limited. A considerable part of the people have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing, and it is difficult to spend money to prevent and control desertification. In 1999, the state invested more than 30 million yuan in desert control projects, mainly for the construction of desert control projects. The average investment per mu was 2.26 yuan based on the treated area, which was only enough to buy two or three small saplings, which was far from the actual needs (some experts believe that The annual cost of desertification control is 2 billion yuan). At present, in the northwest region, the cost of afforestation per acre is about 100 yuan, while the cost of afforestation per acre for desertification control projects is 500 to 600 yuan. The past method was to mobilize farmers to invest in labor to make up for the lack of funds for afforestation. Under the conditions of today's market economy, this method of low investment levels coupled with administrative orders, rigid apportionment, and free use of labor in the planned economy era is increasingly unfeasible. What's more, the State Council has repeatedly stated that it is not allowed to increase the burden on farmers. If no additional measures are taken, With so much investment in sand control, future work is bound to decline. In fact, due to lack of funds, many key issues in desertification prevention and control, such as the promotion of water-saving technologies, breeding of excellent varieties, pest control, solar and wind energy development and utilization... cannot be solved; many desertification control forest farms and nurseries Grassroots desertification prevention and control units such as , desertification control stations, and protection stations have no guaranteed wages for their employees. Production and life are difficult, and normal desertification prevention and control work is difficult to carry out. At the same time, it also results in slow construction speed, low quality, scattered layout, and difficulty in forming a scale. ; The management and protection force is weak, and it is difficult to consolidate the results of afforestation and grass planting, etc. These current conditions are extremely inconsistent with the strategy of realizing national poverty alleviation and shifting the focus of economic construction to the central and western regions.

It is recommended that the country increase capital investment in the prevention and control of desertification. In addition to raising funds through multiple channels, it should be combined with comprehensive agricultural development, farmland capital construction, and engineering projects. It should also formulate some corresponding preferential policies, and who should implement the governance? Based on the principle of who develops, who benefits, governance methods such as desert sand auctions, leasing, transfers, and share cooperation are promoted to form a new situation in which the country, collectives, and individuals work together, and the whole society participates in desert control.

4. Establish a national leading group for desertification prevention and control

Desertification prevention and control is not a purely technical issue, but also a social issue and a management issue. It involves all aspects of society, economy, ecology and various government departments such as forestry, agriculture, water conservancy, and environmental protection. This is a complex system engineering. In the past, one of the main reasons why desertification prevention and control has been unsatisfactory is that various departments in society are doing their own thing and it is difficult to form a joint force. Even one department is controlling desertification while other departments are creating sand. All environmental problems develop horizontally across administrative regions, but government departments that solve environmental problems are designed vertically. If we adhere to this vertical administrative management model of departmental and geographical division, it will be impossible to fundamentally solve any horizontal environmental problems. Therefore, we must also design our environmental administrative management system horizontally to avoid conflicts, internal friction, dispersion and duplication between departments, and improve the overall efficiency of ecological construction projects.

To this end, it is recommended that the National Coordination Group for Desertification Control be upgraded to the National Desertification Control Group