On January 16, as one of the eight specific projects of “10,000 leaders visiting 10,000 villages and benefiting 10,000 villagers” movement, a site meeting focusing on the integration of the urban and rural household waste was held in Dangyang (a county-level city of Yichang City). At the meeting, the work of integrating urban and rural household waste has been well planned, and both the urban and rural household waste management is expected to reach its climax before the advent of the Spring Festival.

　　The participants of the meeting visited the Lianghe Waste Transfer Station, Caobuhu Waste Transfer Station and Gaotai Village Waste Management System, and then discussed some details about waste management.

　　In order to improve the living environment in rural areas and build the “beautiful home and clean village”, the Yichang Municipal government attaches great importance to integrating the treatment of urban and rural domestic waste, which has been listed as one of the eight specific projects that are aimed to benefit rural population. To this end, the City Urban Management Bureau, as the leading force of the project, rapidly formulated a working plan, giving priority to enhancing the rural domestic waste management and building a long-term mechanism for urban and rural environment management. And the Bureau will persistently elevate the harmless disposal rate of the domestic waste and then gradually decrease and recycle the waste.

　　The requirements put forward on the meeting include: the environment management should be carried out within the whole city, and the disposal of accumulated waste and the construction of daily cleaning system should be put in the first place. On the basis of the successful management of the pilot villages and towns, the relevant department should expand the pilot areas, foster a domestic waste system of “sorted out by households, kept clean by groups, collected by villages, transferred by townships, and disposed by counties”, and improve the long-term mechanism. The publicizing and guiding work of classifying and recycling wastes will also be conducted. Through the activity of “a clean city welcoming a new year”, the climax of waste management is expected to reach before the Spring Festival. (Reporter: Huang Chunmei, Correspondents: Hu Kai and Wang Ping)