The garbage pollution problem in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province is serious, and the relevant personnel are held accountable for cheating and inspection.

　　 BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) According to the official Weibo of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, there is a problem that domestic garbage is illegally buried in Huangzhulin Community, Taiping Sub-district Office, Zhaoyang District, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. In environmental protection inspectors, relevant personnel have deceived inspection, pointed east to west, cheated and deceived inspectors, and have been seriously held accountable. At present, the local authorities have completed the removal of illegal landfill garbage.

Exposed garbage on the edge of Sanshantang temporary living garbage dump. Image source: official Weibo of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment

　　Since the Sixth Environmental Protection Inspector Group of the Central Committee was stationed in Yunnan, it has received reports from many people, reflecting the problem that the domestic garbage in Huangzhulin Community of Taiping Sub-district Office in Zhaoyang District, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province was illegally buried with soil and has not been properly disposed of so far. Due to the concentration of complaints, the inspector group decided to inspect and supervise on the spot during the sinking period.

　　On June 11th, led by team leader Zhu Xiaodan, the inspectors and their party rushed to Huangzhulin Community to inspect the site in the rain. Geng Yi, the general branch secretary of the community, accompanied the inspectors and was responsible for leading the way. However, in the process of leading the way, Geng Yi deceived the inspectors, pointed east to west, cheated and deceived the inspectors, deliberately avoiding the inspectors’ inspection, and took the inspectors to the garbage collection point of Laoganzha in Huangzhulin community, instead of Laoyantou, a garbage burial site where the masses reported and the inspectors needed on-the-spot inspection, which caused the inspectors to fail to inspect and supervise the problems reported by the masses on the spot.

　　When the inspectors asked whether there was illegal landfill and incineration of garbage, Geng Yi said that there was indeed a problem of random stacking of construction garbage and sludge in the local area before, but now it is gone. Inspectors questioned the authenticity of the place they saw on the spot, while Geng Yi firmly denied the existence of problems in the mass report.

　　According to the central environmental protection supervision procedure, as early as June 9, the inspector group had transferred the relevant people’s reports to Yunnan Province. According to the requirements of Yunnan Province, Zhaoyang District of Zhaotong City immediately instructed the local Taiping Sub-district Office to conduct investigations within its jurisdiction, but no problems were found. In the process of investigation, Geng Yi also denied the existence of illegal landfill in Huangzhulin community.

　　Subsequently, under the strict requirements of inspectors, it was found that about 10 tons of construction waste and domestic waste were illegally buried in Laoyantou.

　　On June 13th, the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Zhaoyang District decided to give Geng Yi a probation for one year. Admonish (in writing) the leaders linked to Huangzhulin Community, Guo Biyong, the stationmaster of Forest Management Station of Taiping Sub-district Office, and Hu Yun Song, the leader in charge and director of Social Affairs Office of Taiping Sub-district Office; The Party Working Committee of Taiping Sub-district Office was ordered to immediately rectify the problems of ineffective implementation and incomplete rectification of comprehensive environmental sanitation in Huangzhulin community.

　　At present, the local authorities have organized the removal of the garbage illegally buried in Laoyantou, and the case is still being further processed.