Instructors provide door-to-door guidance to protect environment HANGZHOU - Starting in 2016, Chen Xuefen, a garbage-sorting instructor in Zhejiang province, has been "talking trash" with the help of her smartphone. She scans the QR code on any garbage bag in a trash can and immediately knows who threw it away. "We get free garbage bags from our community committee. Each household is given bags with a different QR code," Chen said. If residents don't sort the waste correctly, instructors come to their homes and show them how to do it properly. "In the past, we had no idea who had thrown what away," Chen said. Chen is one of the hundreds of garbage-sorting instructors in Huachuan community, where she and another 10,000-plus residents live. As volunteers, the instructors are meant to help residents manage their trash, especially in the kitchen, which accounts for 50 percent of all household waste. "In Huachuan, more than 90 percent of residents currently know how to sort household waste," Chen said. Built in the 1980s, Huachuan generates about 1,500 liters of garbage a day, which was previously dumped and taken away, and then burned or buried. Though Zhejiang introduced garbage sorting in 2010, progress was initially less than satisfactory. Since 2012, Huachuan's public trash bins have been divided by "kitchen waste", "recyclables", "hazardous waste" and "other". Every year, the community spends about 300,000 yuan ($45,000) on bins and bags to encourage residents to separate their own waste. In 2016, the bags with QR codes appeared. Yu Fuling, Huachuan's Party secretary, said sorting household waste is of great importance. "If trash is not sorted, waste cannot be fully reused or recycled, and the disposal process is harder," Yu said. According to Yu, workers in Huachuan create brochures and give lectures on how to sort garbage, and they organize volunteers to provide door-to-door guidance. Currently, the rate of household garbage sorting in Huachuan is about 70 percent, Yu said. In Zhejiang, 11 cities have run waste-sorting campaigns for households, and the disposal rate of harmless urban household waste has reached 99.3 percent. The province has 110 disposal facilities for household waste and more than 1,800 garbage transfer stations. Another 16 disposal facilities are under construction and will be operational by the end of this year, increasing the province's garbage disposal capacity to 70,000 tons per day. Xinhua 1 inch wide rubber bandsjordan wristbandslap wristbandspersonalised rubber wristbands
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, meets officials who have contributed greatly to public security governance on Tuesday in Beijing. YAO DAWEI/XINHUA President tells officials at conference to focus on safety, where the public has noted improvement President Xi Jinping has called for more systematic and innovative social governance, stressing the need to improve the capability to predict and prevent security risks. Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, was speaking on Tuesday at a Beijing conference to award individuals and units that have made outstanding contributions to the public security governance sector in the past five years. Since late 2012, people working in political and legal affairs have innovated social governance methods and dealt with large numbers of outstanding problems, making the general public feel safer, he said. The sense of security of the Chinese public has increased from 88 percent in 2012 to 92 percent in 2016, according to data released on Tuesday by the Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security, a central level authority in charge of social governance in China. However, Xi wants more effort to be taken to build a safer China. The authorities involved should be aware of the difficulties and challenges, carefully analyze the current situation of Chinese society, adopt technological innovation methods and improve the capacity to forecast and prevent risks, he said. Xi also stressed that social governance officers should have a better sense of the rule of law. More than 500 members from central and local political and law departments, as well as outstanding individuals and units, are participating in the two-day meeting, which concludes on Wednesday. I'm excited and inspired after listening to the president's remarks, which made a comprehensive summary of social governance in the past five years and outlined the new requirements and tasks in the future, said Huang Ming, vice-minister of public security. Huang said the most valuable lesson he has learned is to go with the innovative ideas and strategies to tackle the issues involving social security and win the support of the people. He Wenhao, a senior official in charge of political and legal affairs in the Tibet autonomous region who attended the conference, said the president's speech has built up his confidence in safeguarding Tibet. He said the biggest challenge he now faces is fighting the separatist forces to ensure the continuous safety and stability in Tibet.
