Ministry of Ecology and Environment: The overall water quality of coastal waters across the country has improved significantly

　　China News Service, September 25, "The ecological restoration and restoration projects have all started. The coastal wetland area has been restored over 3,300 hectares, and the length of the restored coastline is about 58 kilometers. From a national perspective, the overall water quality of the coastal waters has also been significantly improved." Huo Chuanlin, deputy director of the Department of Marine Ecology and Environment, made the above statement today.

　　The Ministry of Ecology and Environment today held a regular press conference in September with the theme "Fighting the Tough Battle for the Comprehensive Management of the Bohai Sea".

　　Huo Chuanlin introduced that in the past year, we have made a lot of substantial progress.

The overall control of the Bohai Sea is progressing smoothly, and the overall ecological environment of the Bohai Sea continues to improve.

The five core goals and tasks required by the "Bohai Sea Comprehensive Management Fighting Action Plan" have achieved significant results.

In 2019, the proportion of good water quality (Class I and II) in the Bohai Sea reached 77.9%, an increase of 12.5 percentage points year-on-year; in the spring of 2020, it was 81.6%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points year-on-year; the preliminary summer monitoring and evaluation results showed that the proportion of good water quality in the coastal waters of the Bohai Sea In January-August, 10 nationally controlled sections of rivers entering the sea that were included in the “deterioration action” to eliminate the inferior category V; Solidly advance the traceability and rectification work.

　　Huo Chuanlin pointed out that the ecological restoration and restoration projects have all started, and the coastal wetland area has been restored over 3,300 hectares, and the length of the restored coastline is about 58 kilometers. From a national perspective, the overall water quality of the coastal waters has also improved significantly. In 2019, the proportion of excellent water quality in the coastal waters nationwide It was 76.6%, an increase of 5.3% year-on-year; in the spring of 2020, it was 79.8%, an increase of 3.3% year-on-year; preliminary monitoring and evaluation results in summer showed that the proportion of good water quality in coastal waters nationwide was 78.6%, basically the same as the same period last year.