Green development has become a defining feature of Chinese modernization in the new era.
At the end of December 2023, China issued a guideline to promote a "Beautiful China." The goal is to improve the ecological environment fundamentally by 2035. This will be done by broadly adopting green ways of production and life.
To respond to climate change, a guideline was issued in April 2023 to establish a system of standards for achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Then in November 2023, before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, it was followed by a plan to select 100 pilot cities and industrial parks to explore the path for carbon peaking, once again demonstrating the determination to handle this global issue.
Besides, China issued a roadmap for biodiversity conservation (2023-30) to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which urges all countries to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
To improve the air quality, China issued an action plan emphasizing the development of a green and low-carbon circular economy system, and accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of industries, energy and transportation.
To better leverage the role of technological innovation in green and low-carbon development, the country released an implementation plan to improve the market-oriented green tech-innovation system.
Thanks to these efforts, not only have the Chinese benefited from a bluer sky and cleaner water, but the rest of the whole world has benefited too from China's expanding green landscape.