The Eco Forum Global Annual Conference Guiyang 2018 opened in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China’s Guizhou province, on July 7.

Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, attended the opening ceremony of the three-day conference and read a congratulatory letter sent by President Xi Jinping.

In the past five years, China introduced over 40 reform actions and plans to fight against air, water and soil pollution, which achieved historic and significant changes in ecological conservation, said the vice-premier.

Sun emphasized that ecological conservation was a common challenge and responsibility for countries across the world, and China would strengthen international cooperation in ecological conservation, and push forward the implementation of the United Nations 2030 sustainable development agenda and the green development of the Belt and Road Initiative, jointly safeguard the Paris agreement on climate change, and provide China’s wisdom and solution to global ecological conservation efforts.