Reporters recently went into Liaoyang County, Liaoyang City, Liaoyang County with the Liaoning Environmental Protection Century Walk interview group, in Liaoyang County Shoushan Town, Majitun Village learned that in 2013, Majitun Village, a total of seven small steel enterprises were banned, eliminating backward production capacity of 1.23 million tons, eliminating more than 3,000 tons of smoke and dust pollution, Majitun Village's atmospheric environment quality has been greatly improved.
　　This is a miniature of the comprehensive improvement of small iron and steel in Liaoyang County. This year, Liaoyang County small iron and steel industrial agglomeration comprehensive improvement will complete the target task one year in advance.
　　Small steel blossoms everywhere and heavy pollution
　　Due to the rich iron ore resources and the proximity to Anshan Iron and Steel, in the past 30 years, the small steel enterprises in Liaoyang County can be said to be blossoming everywhere, the maximum number of more than 300.
　　These small iron and steel enterprises are backward in process and simple in equipment, high in energy consumption and wasteful in resources, causing serious air pollution and a large number of environmental letters and visits.
　　How big is the influence of pollutant emission on the ambient air quality in Liaoyang County small steel industry gathering area? Through the analysis of Liaoning Academy of Environmental Sciences, it can be understood that before the implementation of remediation in 2012, its pollutant emissions contributed 40.75%, 35.87%, 19.21% and 28.47% to the PM10 concentration in Liaoyang County, Liaoyang City, Dengta City and the northeastern region of Anshan City, respectively.
　　In the face of these problems, Liaoning Provincial Environmental Protection Department has implemented regional approval limits for Liaoyang County, and Liaoyang City announced the banning of 179 small steel enterprises in 2007, but the effect was minimal.
　　Comprehensive remediation of problematic enterprises
　　In October 2012, Liaoning launched the "Blue Sky Project", and made it clear that Liaoyang County Small Iron and Steel Industry Agglomeration Zone is one of the three key areas to make a breakthrough.
　　In the "Liaoyang County Blue Sky Project Iron and Steel Enterprise Remediation Plan" formulated by Liaoyang city government, the target task of eliminating backward production capacity and upgrading of small iron and steel enterprises in Liaoyang County was determined to be completed within 3 years.
　　After the promulgation of "Ten Atmosphere Regulations", Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government increased the efforts and decided to change the time limit of comprehensive remediation of Liaoyang County small steel industry gathering area from the original 3 years to two years, that is, the requirement to complete the remediation task one year before the end of this year.
　　Liaoyang County has identified 106 iron and steel enterprises which should be eliminated, most of these enterprises are backward in process and equipment, with large emissions of major pollutants, imperfect pollution control facilities and excessive emissions. 65 of the 106 enterprises have no pollution control facilities, 41 pollution control facilities are imperfect, and cannot meet the standard emissions stably.
　　In order to ensure that the remediation goals are achieved as scheduled, Liaoning Provincial Department of Environmental Protection jointly with Liaoyang and Anshan two cities to establish a "government leadership, social supervision, environmental protection supervision, departmental coordination" of regional joint prevention and control mechanisms, and the implementation of cross-city air pollution control.
　　At present, the Liaoning Provincial Environmental Protection Department adopts GPS positioning to verify that 106 enterprises should be eliminated, Liaoyang County has eliminated 67, the remaining 39 enterprises will be eliminated by the end of this year.
　　Steel profits did not decrease but increased
　　Reporters in Liaoning Hongchang Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. learned that this company has been strictly controlled from the state "two high and one capital" rolling steel industry successfully transitioned to the mechanical and electrical products processing industry, and after upgrading to achieve annual profits of more than 30 million yuan. In environmental governance, the company invested 10 million yuan, with natural gas to replace the gas furnace, eliminating the impact of dust and sulfur dioxide on the environment.
　　According to Guo Guangxing, deputy county head of Liaoyang County, in the early stage of remediation, the county was faced with problems such as the decline of economic indicators and employment of personnel, and related industries were also greatly impacted. But with the gradual deepening of the remediation work, especially through the elimination of backward production capacity, joint reorganization, upgrading, etc., not only the air quality of Liaoyang County and the surrounding cities and counties improved effectively, but also the steel industry of Liaoyang County underwent qualitative changes, which really realized the optimization of industrial development by environmental protection.
　　Guo Guangxing said, taking the 16 enterprises finally formed as an example, under the condition that the production capacity of 10 million tons basically remains unchanged, the emissions of dust, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide are reduced by 84.6%, 74.4% and 61.9% respectively compared with before the remediation. Moreover, in the case of unchanged production capacity, the output value and profit and tax has been doubled. Only the formation of the three major industries of iron and steel deep processing, large construction machinery and automobile supporting, copper processing, can realize the output value of 62 billion yuan.
　　The simulation analysis of Liaoning Provincial Academy of Environmental Sciences shows that after the completion of all remediation this year, the contribution of pollutant emissions from Liaoyang County small steel industry gathering area to the PM10 concentration in Liaoyang County, Liaoyang City, Dengta City and northeastern Anshan City can be reduced to 9.44%, 3.2%, 2.39% and 8.37% respectively.