辽宁为水环境保护装上资金调节“双向阀”

Core Viewpoint - The newly implemented "Management Measures for Incentive Compensation Funds for River Water Quality in Liaoning Province" aims to enhance and standardize fund management, improve fund utilization efficiency, and promote the long-term mechanism for river water quality incentive compensation in the province [1] Group 1: Changes in Fund Management - The new regulations shift from a "one-way" compensation system to a "two-way" flow of funds, allowing for compensation and incentives based on pollution and improvement between upstream and downstream areas [2] - The scope of provincial funding support has been expanded to include not only compensation for downstream polluted cities but also incentives for improvements in inter-provincial rivers and cross-border rivers [2] - The new measures implement a "tiered" management mechanism for incentive recipients, increasing incentives for cities that show annual water quality improvements, moving away from a "universal" approach [2] Group 2: Enforcement and Oversight - The Liaoning Provincial Finance Department will collaborate with the Provincial Ecological Environment Department to ensure strict implementation of the new fund management measures and enhance performance management of funds [3] - There will be stringent supervision and performance management, with penalties for projects that are significantly delayed or where funds are idle or ineffective, establishing a system where funding is determined by actual effectiveness [2][3]