Li, a sentenced woman, is the first college student in Shuangxi Village, Shiquan County, Ankang City. She used to be an employee of a state-owned enterprise in Shaanxi. Later, two stone factories in the village exploited without a license, damaged roads and polluted the environment, and claimed compensation from the stone factories on behalf of the villagers.
Shuangxi Village is beautiful and suitable for planting all kinds of crops. Is it possible? Does rice portend a good harvest? In a good place, the villagers are relatively simple. Li, who left the village, always wanted to return to his roots and spend his old age in the village.
In 2008, everything began to change.
The mining rights of these two quarries were obtained by auction, but no EIA report was made, so the production license could not be changed into mining license. Therefore, they started illegal mining under the condition of incomplete procedures, which is also a common practice in developing the economy in some areas.
Vehicles entering and leaving the quarry in the village are overloaded, which does not meet the original load-bearing design of rural roads. Therefore, the village road surface was quickly damaged, and the road surface became potholes, which made it inconvenient and unsafe to travel. Villagers often wrestle on motorcycles.
On the one hand, the road that had just been built for one year was destroyed, on the other hand, the travel road became unsafe, so the villagers began to be dissatisfied with the quarry.
The environmental protection measures taken by the quarry are not in place. The stone slag of the quarry not only destroys paddy fields and dry land, making it impossible for villagers to cultivate, but also destroys vegetation, resulting in double pollution of air and water resources.
When the quarry started, it was dusty and the whole sky was gray. However, the wells of people living next to the quarry are covered by the quarry, so they can only drink the water in the river ditch. On May 20, 20 18, the provincial inspector group went to the countryside for investigation, turned on the faucet and all the mud flowed out. Faced with this situation, the people in the inspection team at that time expressed great concern.
From 20 13, Li began to write articles to reflect the situation to the environmental protection department and published them in Weibo. Give us green hills and smooth roads? .
On 20 17 and 20 18, Li participated in organizing villagers to set up width-limiting piers on village roads to stop the passage of mining vehicles, and asked villagers to rectify the quarry on their behalf. As the head of the quarry is a village cadre, the situation has not improved. In the 20 18 general election of Shuangxi Village, Li Yin's road protection incident was deeply involved in the election of the two village committees.
Li's participation in setting the width-limited pier was clearly answered by the staff of the Rural Highway Administration Bureau of Shiquan County: According to the Regulations on Management and Maintenance of Tongcun Highway in Ankang City, width-limited piers can be set to restrict the entry of large-tonnage vehicles.
I went to the Rural Highway Administration of Shiquan County for consultation and got support. The staff told me that according to the Regulations on Management and Maintenance of Tongcun Highway in Ankang City, width-limited piers can be set to restrict the entry of large-tonnage vehicles. Article 14 of the Measures for the Maintenance and Management of Tongcun Highway in Ankang City (Trial) stipulates that the overload and overrun of Tongcun Highway shall be supervised from the source, and the villagers' committee shall be responsible for improving the height and width limit facilities of Tongcun Highway, and it is strictly forbidden for overloaded vehicles to pass or bypass. Iron-wheeled vehicles, tracked vehicles and other machines and tools that may damage the pavement of Tongcun Highway are not allowed to drive on Tongcun Highway.
These two acts became the charges in the prosecution indictment. In 20 19, she was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment by the Shiquan County Court for the crime of stirring up trouble. Li refused to accept the verdict and entrusted a lawyer to appeal. After the second trial of this case ended, Li received a criminal ruling from Ankang Intermediate People's Court on July 28th. Ankang Intermediate People's Court held that the facts of the original judgment were unclear and the evidence was insufficient, and the trial of the case violated the litigation procedure. Ruled to revoke the criminal judgment of first instance and send it back for retrial.
Judging from Li Yin's experience of being sentenced for reporting environmental problems in his hometown, it is still the mentality of some people in the local economic development to get quick success and instant benefit, destroy the environment and sacrifice the interests of the villagers. This kind of behavior will eventually get a fair trial, and the interest relationship between them will surely show its original shape before the law, waiting for legal sanctions.