"When I saw the letter, I remembered the scene of exchanging garbage sorting work with you five years ago. I was deeply impressed by your enthusiasm for public welfare and serving the masses." On May 21st, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to the volunteers of garbage sorting in Jiaxing Road Street, Hongkou District, Shanghai, encouraging them to do a good job in propaganda and guidance with their hearts and feelings, so as to promote garbage sorting to become a new fashion of low-carbon life.
总书记提到的五年前的场景，发生在上海市虹口区市民驿站。
2018年11月6日，在出席首届中国国际进口博览会开幕式和相关活动后，习近平总书记走进虹口区市民驿站。
党建工作站内，来自居委会、企业的几位年轻人正在交流社区推广垃圾分类的做法。总书记十分感兴趣，仔细询问有关情况。
一位小伙子告诉总书记，参加公益活动对年轻人来说都是新时尚。习近平总书记肯定道：“垃圾分类就是新时尚！垃圾综合处理需要全民参与，我关注着这件事，希望上海抓实办好。”
△上海虹口区嘉兴路街道爱家豪庭小区的“环保小屋”一角
五年时间过去，虹口区嘉兴路街道垃圾分类工作有了新成效，一个个居民文明程度高、环境美的小区成为亮丽的风景线——
在爱家豪庭小区的“环保小屋”，土壤下面的“织物层”是居民用废旧衣物铺出来的，一旁是可以把湿垃圾转化成花草肥料的“堆肥桶”。集时尚与科技于一体，这方绿意盎然的小天地成为垃圾分类与环保公益的宣传阵地。
In Piaoying Garden Community, "black technology" makes the garbage bin room intelligent. By swiping the card to open the door, sorting, automatic weighing, voice reminding and other functions, residents can complete the sorting of garbage in just 10 seconds, and they can also understand the data generated by their own domestic garbage.
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Garbage sorting is deeply rooted in people’s hearts and has become people’s living habits, which is inseparable from the contribution of garbage sorting volunteers.
△ Volunteers teach children the knowledge of garbage sorting.
The volunteer team of garbage sorting in Jiaxing Road Street consists of outstanding young people from residential areas, "two new" organizations, government agencies and institutions. Rehearse sketches, engage in roadshows, design posters and brochures, and organize various creative environmental protection theme activities … Volunteers actively carry out various publicity, training and promotion activities from the perspective of cultivating ideas, habits and behaviors, so as to improve the awareness rate of garbage classification knowledge and attract more people to participate in garbage classification volunteer services. Nowadays, more and more young people take the initiative to join in, and the total number of this team has exceeded 2100.
In the past five years, with the continuous adjustment of waste sorting measures, volunteers no longer need to be on duty for a long time to guide residents on how to sort. "Consolidating and deepening the concept of garbage classification with new ways and means" has become their new insistence.
△ Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Domestic Waste Classification Theme Park Classification Knowledge Clearance Trail. This form promotes the knowledge of garbage classification through education and fun.
The implementation of garbage sorting is related to the living environment of the broad masses of people, the conservation of resources and an important embodiment of the level of social civilization.
习近平总书记十分关注垃圾分类和资源化利用，多次召开重要会议、作出重要指示、实地了解基层开展垃圾分类工作情况。
“小时候，我住在胡同里，都是晚上倒垃圾。现在，条件好了，环境美了，一定要搞好垃圾分类和回收处理。”2019年春节前夕，在北京草厂四条胡同的社区物业服务站，习近平总书记叮嘱：“从每家每户开始就要培养垃圾分类的意识，养成这个习惯。”
同年，总书记对垃圾分类工作作出重要指示强调，要“加强引导、因地制宜、持续推进，把工作做细做实，持之以恒抓下去”，“让更多人行动起来，培养垃圾分类的好习惯，全社会人人动手，一起来为改善生活环境作努力，一起来为绿色发展、可持续发展作贡献”。
2021年4月，在中央政治局第二十九次集体学习时，总书记强调“要实施垃圾分类和减量化、资源化”；2021年12月，总书记在中央经济工作会议上指出“要推行垃圾分类和资源化”……
习近平总书记的一系列重要指示，饱含着对实现人民美好生活、持续推进绿色发展的殷切期望。
近年来，在总书记的关怀与指引下，我国垃圾分类工作持续深入推进，297个地级以上城市已全面实施生活垃圾分类，居民小区平均覆盖率达到82.5%。
△ In February, 2023, in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, garbage sorting administrators and community volunteers viewed the delivery of garbage stations in various communities on the digital big screen.
It has been nearly four years since Shanghai fully implemented garbage sorting. At present, the whole amount of domestic garbage in the city has been treated harmlessly, and the recycling rate of domestic garbage has reached 42%. This year, Shanghai will create "five batches" of demonstration highlights, namely, a batch of standardized garbage houses, a batch of demonstration residential areas for fine garbage sorting, a batch of demonstration recycling transfer stations, a batch of demonstration areas for fine sorting public places, and a batch of popular science experience lines for garbage sorting, so that the "key little things" of garbage sorting can be better integrated into daily life.
Garbage sorting and resource utilization is a systematic project, which requires the concerted efforts of all parties, precise policies and long-term efforts, and the active participation and initiative of the majority of urban and rural residents.
In the reply, the General Secretary sent a message to volunteers to continue to play their unique role in grass-roots governance, do a good job in propaganda and guidance with their hearts and feelings, and drive more residents to develop the good habit of classified delivery, promote garbage sorting to become a new fashion of low-carbon life, and make positive contributions to promoting the construction of ecological civilization and improving the civilization level of the whole society.
On May 22nd, the first National Publicity Week of Urban Domestic Waste Classification was opened. The "new fashion" of garbage sorting with everyone’s participation and long-term contribution has become the new normal of people’s lives, which will vigorously promote green development and build beautiful China on the new journey.
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