Reporters learned from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on the 23rd that the second batch of the third round of central ecological environmental protection inspectors has entered the sinking stage. 96 party and government leading cadres were interviewed and 5 were held accountable.

Seven inspection teams successively stationed in seven provinces (cities) of Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing and Yunnan from May 7 to 9 to carry out river basin inspection and provincial inspection as a whole. As of the evening of May 20, 7 supervision groups had received 12444 calls and letters from the masses, accepted 10683 effective reports, sorted out and reported repeatedly, and transferred 7562 reports to the supervised places in total; 1522 cases have been completed or phased completed by the supervised places, of which 244 cases have been filed for punishment and 13 cases have been filed for investigation; Interview with 96 party and government leading cadres, and accountability of 5 party and government leading cadres.

In the sinking stage, each inspection group went to the grass-roots level, the front line and the site to inspect the implementation of ecological environment protection work of the local party committees and governments according to the information obtained by the previous stage of inspection and the clues of focused problems. The inspection teams verified a number of prominent ecological and environmental problems, and verified a number of formalistic and bureaucratic problems, such as inaction, slow action, lack of responsibility, and even perfunctory response and fraud.

The supervision teams continued to promote the solution of prominent ecological and environmental problems reported by the masses, timely transferred them to supervision, strengthened spot checks and verification, carried out on-site visits and listened to the opinions of the masses face to face. Urge the supervised areas to promote the reform while supervising in a precise and scientific manner according to law, so as to solve specific ecological environment problems and respond to social concerns, win the trust of the people with the actual results of rectification, and constantly enhance the people's sense of ecological environment acquisition, happiness, and security. (Reporter Gao Jing)

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