Chinanews, August 18, the State Council Information Office today held a press conference on the construction of a beautiful China where man and nature coexist in harmony.
Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu revealed at the meeting that in the first half of this year, the national average concentration of PM2.5 dropped by 2.9% year-on-year, and the proportion of good water bodies increased by 1.1% year-on-year.
Huang Runqiu said that the nine ecological environment binding indicators and the phased targets of the pollution prevention and control battle determined in the "13th Five-Year Plan" have been fully completed and exceeded, the ecological environment has been significantly improved, and the green background and quality of building a well-off society in an all-round way have been planted. Fineness.
In terms of atmospheric environmental quality, the proportion of good days in cities at prefecture-level and above across the country will reach 87% in 2020, an increase of 5.8 percentage points from 2015 and 2.5 percentage points higher than the 13th Five-Year Plan target.
PM2.5, that is, the average concentration of fine particulate matter at the prefecture-level and above cities reached 37 micrograms/m3, a decrease of 28.8% from 2015, and also exceeded the "13th Five-Year Plan" target by 10.8 percentage points.
In terms of water environment quality, the proportion of good surface water bodies nationwide has increased from 66% in 2015 to 83.4% in 2020, which exceeds the 13th Five-Year Plan target by 13.4 percentage points; the proportion of inferior Grade V water bodies has dropped from 9.7% in 2015 to 83.4% in 2020. 0.6% in 2020, exceeding the 13th Five-Year Plan target by 4.4 percentage points.
In terms of soil environmental quality, both the safe utilization rate of contaminated farmland and the safe utilization rate of contaminated land nationwide have exceeded 90%, successfully achieving the "13th Five-Year Plan" goal.
In terms of the ecological environment, the national forest coverage rate will reach 23.04% in 2020, and the area of nature reserves and various nature reserves will account for 18% of the land area.
In addition, in terms of carbon emission reduction in response to climate change, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 will be reduced by 18.8% compared with 2015, and the goals and tasks of the "13th Five-Year Plan" have also been successfully completed.
Huang Runqiu revealed that the results of a survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2020 showed that the public's satisfaction with the ecological environment reached 89.5%, an increase of 10.7 percentage points from 2017.
This also fully shows that the staged results of the pollution prevention and control battle have been fully recognized by the people.
In the first half of this year, the national ecological environment continued to improve.
The average concentration of PM2.5 decreased by 2.9% year-on-year, and the proportion of good water bodies increased by 1.1% year-on-year.
Huang Runqiu pointed out that the improvement of ecological environment quality is not achieved overnight, but a process that requires long-term hard work.
In the next step, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept based on the new development stage, build a new development pattern, maintain the strategic determination of ecological environmental protection, and adhere to the general requirements for promoting the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction. Ecological priority, green development, more emphasis on precision pollution control, scientific pollution control, and pollution control in accordance with the law, in-depth fight for pollution prevention and control, continue to improve the quality of the ecological environment, promote the overall green transformation of economic and social development, and promote the realization of new progress in ecological civilization for construction The beautiful China where man and nature coexist harmoniously contributes our strength.