Guangzhou Daily (All Media Reporter Du Juan) On January 31, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment held a press conference to inform on the province’s ecological and environmental protection work in 2023.
In 2023, Guangdong has won the excellent ranking in the national pollution prevention and control assessment for three consecutive years. Six major atmospheric pollutants have fully met the standards for nine consecutive years. In 2023, the province's air quality compliance rate was 94.8%, ranking second in the country in terms of improvement. In terms of water environment quality, the province's rural domestic sewage treatment rate has exceeded the national tasks assigned to Guangdong two years ahead of schedule. The water quality rate of surface water national examination sections has reached 91.9%, and all sections inferior to Class V have been cleared. The water quality of coastal sea areas is excellent. The area ratio reached 92.3%, the highest level since monitoring and evaluation began.
Recently, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of Beautiful China" was officially issued, which proposed the need to build a Beautiful China pioneer area, deepen the connection of rules and mechanisms in the ecological environment field of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and jointly build a world-class beautiful bay area . Creating a beautiful bay area with world-class ecological and environmental quality is an integral part of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Xu Xiaoxia, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, said at the press conference that the next step will be to anchor the new positioning of "one point, two places" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, benchmark the goals and requirements of the Beautiful China Pioneer Area, and comprehensively deepen the ecology of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao. Environmental protection work, and work together to promote greater progress in the construction of a world-class beautiful bay area.
The first is to innovate and plan cooperation paths to jointly build a beautiful Bay Area. On the basis of the ministry-provincial cooperation framework agreement, we will further expand the cooperation content in jointly building a world-class beautiful bay area, formulate action plans and policy measures to build a beautiful China pioneer area, and build a beautiful blue sky, beautiful rivers and lakes, beautiful bays, and beautiful cities. , beautiful countryside and other multi-dimensional demonstration construction, forming a number of demonstration cases with Bay Area characteristics, driving the construction of beautiful China pioneer areas in all fields, all aspects and all regions.
The second is to innovate and promote the connection of rules and mechanisms in key areas. On the basis of the original cooperation in ecological and environmental protection work, promote the establishment of a closer and pragmatic ecological and environmental protection cooperation mechanism between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, focusing on key areas such as joint prevention and control of air pollution, marine environmental protection, climate change response, and solid waste co-processing.
The third is to innovate and promote the demonstration of major strategic platforms. Using major cooperation platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai and Nansha as carriers, we will take the lead in exploring and piloting ecological and environmental management systems, standard systems and cooperation models that are in line with international standards, carry out research and application of carbon label mutual recognition mechanisms, and explore the establishment of regional internal product carbon The footprint and low-carbon product certification system promotes the three major platforms to deeply participate in global environmental governance and exchanges and cooperation, strengthen international cooperation in green finance, green trade, green energy and other fields, and achieve high-level mutual benefit and win-win results.