There is a simple reason. As long as the upstream Anhui Province ensures that the water quality reaches the standard, it can get an annual reward of 6,543.8 billion yuan from the gambling mechanism. As a downstream province, Zhejiang Province has saved a lot of money on water pollution control because its water quality has reached the standard, and it is naturally the winner, but Anhui Province has won the economy and Zhejiang Province has won the ecology. The interesting water quality game mechanism originated 20 12 and 10 years ago. As the first trans-provincial river basin horizontal ecological compensation mechanism in China, in the first round of three-year pilot, according to the capital contribution standard of 300 million yuan from the central government, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces 1 100 million yuan, a compensation fund of 500 million yuan per year was set up, which played a decisive role in local ecological governance.

After nine years and three rounds of pilot projects, Xin 'anjiang, which flows through the two provinces, has met the compensation assessment requirements for nine consecutive years. In short, the upstream province of Anhui can get up to 900 million yuan from the compensation mechanism, while Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang Province gets more than 6 billion cubic meters of clean water every year. Such a simple and clear gambling mechanism is believed to be beneficial to the people of both provinces. In fact, the real purpose of this incentive mechanism is to encourage pollution control. You know, after the mechanism is determined, Huangshan, Anhui Province will intensify pollution control. The elimination and relocation of polluting enterprises and the construction of circular economy parks may bear certain economic losses at the initial stage, but it will promote the rapid development of local circular economy.

On the surface, the annual reward of 1 100 million yuan is obtained by Anhui at the capital level, but it is not difficult to find that the economic transformation of Huangshan in Anhui Province has also achieved remarkable results, and this intangible income is far more valuable than the reward of 1 100 million yuan. For Zhejiang Province, although it has paid 6,543.8+billion yuan, Qiandao Lake, as the ecological resource of the whole province, can receive more than 6 billion cubic meters of fresh water transported upstream every year. Strictly speaking, this ecological account is not inferior to the value of 654.38 billion yuan. You know, if there is no crystal water sent from the upstream, Zhejiang Province may have to pay more than 654.38 billion yuan to rectify the water pollution problem in Qiandao Lake.

To sum up, this gambling compensation mechanism for water quality in Anhui and Zhejiang plays a decisive role in solving the problem of upstream and downstream water pollution control. In the nine-year pilot process, the brilliant achievements made are naturally more convincing. Not only that, Shandong and Henan have also carried out pilot projects in this regard. In the year that it has been successfully implemented, Henan, as an upstream province, received 65.438+0.26 billion yuan of ecological compensation from Shandong, while Shandong got the Yellow River water flowing from Henan, and the water quality remained above the second-class water quality, which is also a typical win-win game case.