Xiamen, Fujian Province is an important birthplace and first practice place for Xi Jinping’s ecological civilization thought. In March 1988, facing Yuandang Lake with sewage flowing across the river and no fish and shrimps, Comrade Xi Jinping creatively proposed “governing the lake in accordance with the law’.
After five phases of large-scale renovation, the once "stinking lake" has been transformed into a “green lung of the city” Xiamen has actively promoted the ecological protection and restoration of "sea areas, river basins, and the whole area"