BEIJING — China will advance green development, strive to solve outstanding environmental problems and strengthen protection of the ecosystem, Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli said on Dec 11.
“China attaches great importance to the construction of ecological civilization,” Zhang told an annual conference of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), a nonprofit international advisory body approved by the Chinese government.
“China is putting the building of ecological civilization into a five-sphere integrated plan, which is an important step toward the building of a beautiful China and has contributed China’s wisdom to solving global environmental problems and the building of a beautiful world,” Zhang said.
The five-sphere integrated plan focuses on coordinated economic, political, cultural, social and ecological advancement.
Zhang said the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China had made “a new important plan for the construction of China’s ecological civilization in the new era.”
Zhang said China would establish a green, low-carbon and recycling economic system.
“China will try to curb the pollution of the air, water and soil, and prohibit foreign garbage from entering the country,” he said.
He said China would step up environmental management in key areas such as nature reserves and national parks, and carry out pilot projects on the restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, farmland, lakes and grasslands.
“China will reform the regulatory system for the ecological environment, establish and improve a system for the development and protection of territorial space, so as to provide institutional guarantee for the promotion of a beautiful China,” Zhang said.