On November 2, 2015, Cai Jian [2015] No.985

The finance departments (bureaus) and environmental protection departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning:

　　Environmental monitoring is the foundation of ecological environmental protection and the important support of ecological civilization construction. In recent years, financial and environmental protection departments at all levels have effectively increased their financial input and actively carried out their work, initially established a national environmental monitoring network, launched a pilot project of collecting air directly from the national monitoring station, released real-time air quality monitoring data to the public in cities above the prefecture level, and significantly enhanced their environmental monitoring capabilities. In some places, pilot explorations such as third-party custody operations have been carried out, and positive results have been achieved. However, the problems existing in China’s current environmental monitoring work are also prominent. The central and local environmental monitoring powers have not been completely straightened out, and the phenomenon of local administrative intervention in monitoring data still exists. The responsibility of enterprise environmental monitoring report has not been fully implemented, and the base of enterprise sewage discharge is unclear. Protecting the people’s right to know about the environment is the basic duty of the government. Under the new situation, comprehensively promoting the construction of ecological civilization also urgently requires speeding up the rationalization of environmental monitoring rights among governments at all levels and deepening the reform of the environmental monitoring system. After being approved by the leaders of the State Council, the following reform implementation opinions are put forward:

　　First, the overall requirements, objectives and basic principles of financial support monitoring system reform

　　(1) General requirements.

　　Thoroughly implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee, implement the State Council’s Plan for the Construction of Ecological Environmental Monitoring Network (Guo Ban Fa [2015] No.56), straighten out the national environmental monitoring management system, accelerate the reform of the environmental monitoring system, and the central government assumes the power of monitoring important regional and cross-border environmental quality, forming a national direct environmental monitoring network in the aspects of atmosphere, water and soil; Each province undertakes environmental quality monitoring within its jurisdiction, and strengthens the supervisory monitoring of pollution source emissions and strengthens environmental supervision and law enforcement; Implement the main responsibility of enterprises, strictly implement the self-monitoring and reporting system of pollution discharge, thus establishing an environmental monitoring system with clear boundaries between central, local and enterprise responsibilities, providing accurate and authoritative data support for environmental assessment of governments at all levels, and consolidating the foundation of ecological civilization construction.

　　(2) Work objectives.

　　By 2018, the collection of national monitoring stations and national control sections will be completed in an all-round way, and the monitoring network of atmospheric, water and soil environmental quality directly under the state will be established and improved; The environmental quality monitoring system in the province has been effectively established, and the monitoring data controlled by the state are mutually verified and interconnected; The market-oriented reform of environmental monitoring has been deepened, the third-party trusteeship operation mechanism has been widely implemented, the efficiency of environmental monitoring has been greatly improved, the ecological environmental monitoring system of land and sea planning, integration of heaven and earth and information sharing has been continuously improved, and the environmental monitoring ability has been more adapted to the requirements of ecological civilization construction.

　　(3) Basic principles.

　　Clarify the powers and responsibilities. In accordance with the requirements of "who evaluates and who monitors", distinguish between the central and local authorities in environmental quality monitoring and expenditure responsibilities; According to the law, the responsibility of enterprise pollution monitoring and reporting will be implemented, and the intergovernmental environmental monitoring power will be clearer, and the responsibilities of all parties will be effectively implemented.

　　Graded guarantee and strengthened support. Central and local environmental monitoring is included in the scope of financial security at the same level. The central government will increase investment to ensure the construction and operation of the national environmental monitoring system network; Local financial departments should also take environmental monitoring as the focus of environmental protection expenditure to ensure it.

　　Implement step by step, actively and steadily. The reform of environmental monitoring system involves a wide range, so it is necessary to make overall planning, prepare a three-year medium-term financial plan, ensure the collection of key expenditures for environmental monitoring, and gradually receive them according to the existing environmental monitoring work capacity.

　　Two, support the establishment of the national air, water, soil and other environmental quality monitoring pipe network.

　　The central government should accurately grasp and objectively evaluate the overall situation of the national ecological environment quality and meet the assessment requirements for local ecological environmental protection work. According to the requirements of strengthening environmental protection and governance, the construction of state-controlled monitoring sites and sections will be increased, and all state-controlled monitoring sites and sections will be taken over by the state step by step. In terms of atmospheric monitoring, appropriately increase the construction of state-controlled monitoring stations and enrich the monitoring functions to achieve full coverage of major cities at or above the prefecture level in the country and meet the assessment and evaluation needs of the Air Pollution Prevention Action Plan; In terms of water quality monitoring, automatic monitoring stations and sections controlled by the state are added to cover urban waters above prefecture level, and more than 1,400 important rivers such as national boundary rivers, major first-class and second-class tributaries, 92 important lakes and reservoirs, and key drinking water sources are further covered to meet the assessment and evaluation needs of the Water Pollution Prevention Action Plan; In terms of soil monitoring, it supports the development of a national encrypted survey of soil pollution, the monitoring of risk points, the coverage of important drinking water sources and contaminated soil, the establishment and improvement of the data quality control system of the national environmental monitoring network, the improvement of the quality control and management level of environmental monitoring at the national level, and the assurance of accurate and reliable national environmental monitoring data.

　　Third, actively promote the reform of local environmental monitoring system

　　All localities should speed up the rationalization of the environmental quality monitoring system within their jurisdiction, do a good job in environmental quality monitoring within their jurisdiction, grasp the status of ecological environment quality and the total amount of pollutants discharged within their jurisdiction, and take the initiative to accept the supervision of the masses within their jurisdiction. Conditional provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) can collect environmental quality monitoring points and sections at the city and county levels within their jurisdiction to meet the provincial assessment requirements. All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government should make clear the timetable of various reform tasks according to the actual situation, and do a good job in ensuring relevant funds. The provincial environmental monitoring data should be shared with the national network.

　　Four, fully implement the main responsibility of enterprise pollution source monitoring.

　　Enterprises are the first person responsible for clarifying the pollution discharge situation, and should monitor by themselves or entrust a third party to carry out monitoring according to law, report the pollution discharge data to the environmental protection department in time, and key enterprises should also disclose the monitoring information to the society regularly. Local governments should withdraw from the monitoring of pollution discharge instead of enterprises, earnestly perform the duties of supervisory monitoring of pollution sources, improve the online monitoring system of key pollution sources and strengthen the supervision of pollution discharge process. Supervise and urge enterprises to fulfill the responsibility of self-monitoring of pollution sources and information disclosure, and punish enterprises that practise fraud and smuggle. The central government strengthens environmental supervision for local governments to perform their duties.

　　V. Vigorously promote the market-oriented reform of environmental monitoring

　　Except for sensitive environmental data, the environmental monitoring stations and monitoring sections collected by the central government will, in principle, adopt the way of government purchasing services and choose a third-party professional company for hosting and operation. Local governments should speed up the marketization of environmental monitoring, deepen the classification reform of environmental protection institutions and cultivate the environmental monitoring market. The government should further strengthen the supervision of the third-party environmental monitoring market, strengthen the accountability mechanism, comprehensively establish environmental monitoring standards and norms, assessment and quality control systems, and improve the quality control and management level of environmental monitoring at the national level.

　　Financial and environmental protection departments at all levels should fully understand the great significance of deepening the reform of environmental monitoring system, take active actions, strengthen organization and coordination, ensure the smooth implementation of the reform, and make new contributions to continuously improving the level of environmental quality monitoring in China and promoting the construction of ecological civilization.

　　CC: Offices of the Financial Ombudsman of the Ministry of Finance in all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning.

　　Yesterday, Wang Xing (a pseudonym), an undergraduate who just graduated from Wuhan University of Technology, sadly revised the QQ personality signature. "President Zhou is still the beloved president on my diploma …"

　　The President Zhou she mentioned is Zhou Zude, the president of Wuhan University of Technology, who is 64 years old; In May this year, he was just announced by China Academy of Sciences as an effective candidate for co-election as an academician. Yesterday, a news that he and doctoral student Xie Ming were suspected of plagiarizing their papers was disclosed by the media and quickly spread wildly on the Internet, causing a shock in Wuhan and even the whole country.

　　Member of academic Committee

　　"Stupid and bold plagiarism"

　　On December 18th, 2008, the second national academic conference on intelligent manufacturing was held in Shantou University. Before the conference, the organizing committee received three papers with Zhou Zude as the first author. At the initial evaluation of the Academic Committee, everyone gave a high evaluation of his paper "Diesel Generation Using Doubly Fed Induction Machines" as the first author, and was initially awarded the first prize.

　　Chen Dingfang, a member of the academic committee of the conference and a professor at the School of Logistics of Wuhan University of Technology, said in an interview yesterday that if the control is not strict, this article may win the first prize of the conference paper and be published in the top core journal of the machinery industry, Journal of China Machinery Industry.

　　The problem lies in the routine verification. In order to approve the absolute originality of the paper, the academic Committee will select the paper-search on the Internet. As a result, it was found that "just a search on Baidu found almost the same title of a paper".

　　Chen introduced that the paper with almost the same name found on the Internet was completed by five scientists from Magellan University in Chile and was published in March 2008. "We only have a’ wind, (wind)! ”。

　　The judges found that all the formulas and diagrams in the two articles are exactly the same, and even the first eight references have not been changed at all. "This is stupid and bold plagiarism!" Chen Dingfang said that the judges at the scene were "shocked".

　　The reporter sent an e-mail to the plagiarized professor Robert Cadinas yesterday. By 8 o’clock last night, he had not given a reply.

　　On the evening of 17th, Chen Dingfang found Zhou Zude’s secretary, hoping to inform me of this "trouble" news as soon as possible, but he was unable to contact last week.

　　The next day, on the day of the conference, Zhou Zude was the third speaker. Fortunately, the content of his speech was not the "problematic" article. After the report, Chen Dingfang and Li Bin, a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, one of the presidents of the conference, found Zhou Zude together and raised the issue of plagiarism. Zhou Zude’s first reaction was, "I didn’t pass the exam properly", and claimed that the thesis had been checked by two other professors in our school.

　　Dr. Xie Ming

　　"Injured by distorted reports by the media"

　　About five months after the academic conference, Zhou Zude was announced by China Academy of Sciences as an effective candidate for co-election as an academician.

　　At this time, people began to report on the Internet, including a doctor from Peking University. A teacher of Wuhan University told reporters yesterday that this matter has already been discussed in a small scale on some academic websites and forums. Soon, the reporter of China Youth Daily received a report email.

　　Yesterday, the reporter contacted Zhang Guo, a reporter from China Youth Daily who first exposed the matter in the media. He told this reporter, "The people I interviewed asked for strict confidentiality and did not want to contact the media again."

　　The reporter then contacted Xie Ming, a doctoral student of Zude last week. In this paper suspected of plagiarism, he was the second author and was just awarded a doctorate by Wuhan University of Technology in June this year.

　　It is reported that he has arranged to stay in school after graduation as an excellent doctoral student and has signed a contract for staying in school. Later, the student failed to stay in school because of the above-mentioned events and the academic fraud reported by the professors concerned.

　　The reporter called Xie Ming yesterday and heard a child crying. The reporter explained his intention, but he couldn’t hear the voice of the other party clearly. The phone lasted for a minute or two, and the other party hung up and never answered the phone again.

　　Later, Xie Minglai texted, "I have been hurt by the distorted report of China Youth Daily. Now I don’t trust the media, and this matter has its own public opinion."

　　Earlier, he posted on Tianya Forum: In August 2008, I submitted three papers to the Organizing Committee of NCIM‘, the second national academic conference on intelligent manufacturing, and all of them received employment notices. When looking for a tutor (research group) to apply for the publication fee, finalize the paper (including the determination of the author of the paper) and prepare to formally submit the paper, it failed to pass the examination. Therefore, I didn’t pay the conference registration fee (paper publishing fee), which should be regarded as giving up publishing automatically; And on the day of the meeting, the application for withdrawal was formally submitted to the conference. All my papers did not enter the CD-ROM version (official version) of conference proceedings published by NCIM‘2008.

　　Xie Ming also said in his post that he was punished for this (although my paper was not published). However, nearly a year has passed, but it was taken out by people with ulterior motives for vicious speculation, which deeply hurt Professor Zhou Zude. Here, he deeply apologized and will make his mentor and Wuhan University of Technology proud of him with his lifelong efforts.

　　All parties involved avoided talking about it.

　　The reporter tried to know more, but all the parties involved were dodging and avoiding talking about it.

　　The reporter called Zhou Zude, but no one answered. After contacting his secretary, Feng Li, the other party said that he was on a business trip in other places, and he didn’t know this matter yet, so he would give a reply after asking clearly. A vice-principal of the school said, "Don’t ask me about it. It has nothing to do with me. I can’t hide."

　　Academician Xiong Youlun of Huazhong University of Science and Technology is the honorary chairman of this academic conference. According to China Youth Daily, it was under the leadership of this academician of China Academy of Sciences that the organizing committee decided to inform the author about the plagiarism of the paper.

　　70-year-old Xiong Youlun enjoys high prestige and academic rigor in the field of mechanical manufacturing. The reporter dialed his home phone, and his wife answered the phone. When explaining the intention of the interview and involving Zhou Zude’s plagiarism, Mrs. Xiong said: "Many people are looking for him for this matter. He doesn’t know about it. Don’t look for him again. He has gone on a business trip."

　　The China Youth Daily mentioned by the reporter interviewed Academician Xiong Youlun, and his wife said that the report was inaccurate. Then the reporter called Academician Xiong’s mobile phone to show that it was turned off.

　　Professor Huang Xinhan, director of the Intelligent Robot Professional Committee of China Artificial Intelligence Society and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, told the reporter that something really happened at the meeting. He introduced that Chen Dingfang of the Academic Committee and Academician Xiong Youlun had found Zhou Zude together and asked Zhou about this "somewhat problematic" article.

　　The school said: The Ministry of Education has been involved in the investigation.

　　Teachers and students of Wuhan University of Technology were shocked after the exposure of Zhou Zude’s alleged plagiarism. Many people left messages on the Internet, "My first reaction was shock when I saw this news, and then I felt bad." A graduate who asked not to be named told reporters that he was embarrassed to go back to school in the future.

　　But more students doubt it, and I think there should be something hidden in it. I really hope the truth can be revealed to the world …

　　A freshman teacher from Wuhan University of Technology told the reporter that this happened for half a year, and the background of the report was complicated.

　　The relevant person in charge of the school told the reporter that the school was discussing countermeasures yesterday morning and put forward suggestions to the principal Zhou Zude, hoping to make an appropriate response to the outside world.

　　At 5 o’clock in the afternoon yesterday, the reporter was informed that the school had reported the matter to the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Education had officially intervened in the investigation.

　　The reporter then called the Information Office of the Ministry of Education. When he answered the phone, the man said that the leader was discussing the specific situation, but he was not very clear about it. When the reporter further wanted to get in touch with his leader, he said that the leader was absent, and if he wanted to interview the matter further, he could send an interview letter. (Reporter Li Jia Xiong Linhui Qu Lingyun)

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