ENVIRONMENT
FOCUS ON POLLUTION CONTROL AND IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
• The city is developing a comprehensive plan for the collection, transportation, and treatment of solid waste within the city during the 2022–2025 period, with a vision to 2050.
• Seventeen hotline telephone numbers have been made public to receive reports of environmental pollution.
• The city requires districts and townships to direct communes, wards, and townships to establish and update telephone numbers and email addresses for receiving residents’ reports of environmental pollution violations in their areas.
PROTECTING CLEAN WATER RESOURCES
To protect clean water resources, Hai Phong is implementing specific solutions, including:
• Installing automatic monitoring stations on rivers;
• Building wastewater collection and treatment systems along both banks of freshwater sources and marking water-source protection corridors.
• Thirty centralized wastewater treatment plants are expected to be built, including 17 urban wastewater treatment plants and 13 plants serving satellite urban areas.
Hai Phong urgently addresses pollution from temporary waste dumps
Hai Phong women join hands to protect clean water resources
THE CITY DEVELOPS AND IMPLEMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PLANS AND PROGRAMMES
The city is developing an environmental protection strategy; developing and implementing a plan for the collection and treatment of domestic solid waste within the city through 2025, with orientations through 2030…
At the same time, it is stepping up calls for international organisations to cooperate and support new and advanced technologies for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, using energy efficiently, and developing renewable energy; and learning from models for waste collection, transportation, and treatment.
Farmers and fishermen participate in protecting the marine environment
INTENSIFYING COMMUNICATION AND RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS
Many lively activities have been held to encourage residents in the district to participate in environmental protection, including:
– Rallies commemorating World Environment Day and responding to Sea and Islands Week
– The Make the World Cleaner campaign
– Green Living Day
– Launch activities to clean workplaces, schools, and residential areas; collect and treat waste and rubbish; address urgent and outstanding issues in residential areas; integrate these efforts with environmental protection and biodiversity conservation activities and movements; and plant, care for, and protect trees,…
Rally and launch activities responding to World Environment Day
It has also been determined that communication, dissemination, and education on environmental protection law are important solutions. The district Fatherland Front Working Committee has coordinated with mass organisations to establish a “Core Group” and a “Self-management Team”. These core forces raise awareness of the causes and impacts of pollution and climate change and encourage residents to sort waste at source through banners, panels, posters, and environmental and climate-change messages in public places and crowded areas; communication through mass media; and talks, thematic activities, people’s conferences, and residential-group meetings…
LG Display Vietnam Hai Phong conducts an “Environmental Protection” campaign in Do Son