China News Service, March 25. The 2024 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum will be held on March 24-25, 2024. The "Carbon Neutrality and Global Climate Governance Symposium" was held on the afternoon of March 24. Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said in his speech in the "Keynote Speech One" session: China's economic and social development has entered a phase of accelerating greening and low-carbonization. The high-quality development stage of carbonization.
First, new industries and new business formats demonstrate new green momentum.
China's new energy vehicle production and sales account for more than 60% of the world's total, ranking first in the world for nine consecutive years. The export growth rate of the "three new products" of electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products is close to 30%.
Second, the quality of the ecological environment has been significantly improved.
In 2023, the average concentration of PM2.5 in cities at the prefecture level and above across the country will be 30 micrograms/cubic meter, a 16.7% decrease from 2019 before the epidemic, and the proportion of surface water sections with excellent surface water quality across the country will reach 89.4%.
Third, the green and low-carbon market mechanism continues to improve.
The second compliance cycle of the national carbon emissions trading market has successfully concluded, with a total of 2,257 key emission units in the power generation industry included, covering more than 5 billion tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions, and a compliance completion rate of over 99%.
The fourth is to deeply participate in global environmental and climate governance and promote the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai to achieve positive results.
Through the green “Belt and Road” construction, South-South cooperation on climate change, China-Africa climate change cooperation and other channels, we will provide assistance to other developing countries to the best of our ability, and make contributions to global climate governance and green and low-carbon transformation with Chinese wisdom and Chinese actions. greatest contribution.