sixth five-year environmental day| The national home event on the June Five-Year Environment Day in 2025 will be held in Chongqing
On June 5, the 2024 June Five-Year Environment Day national home event was held in NanNing City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The theme of this year's June 5th Environment Day is "Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China", aiming to in-depth studyXipropaganda and implementationXiJinpingThe idea of ecological civilization guides the whole society to firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and mobilizes all sectors of society to actively participate in the great practice of building a beautiful China and realizing the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
At the event site, Chongqing City was announced as the venue for the national home event on June 5th Environment Day in 2025, and the flag was passed to Zhang Guozhi, deputy mayor of Chongqing City People's Government.
The event site delivered the flag to Zhang Guozhi, Vice Mayor of Chongqing City People's Government.
Zhang Guozhi pointed out that in recent years, Chongqing has systematically promoted the construction of beautiful Chongqing, coordinating pollution control and ecological protection in the Yangtze River Economic Belt with "water control, gas control, soil control, waste control, plastic control, mountain control, bank control, city control, and township control". The battle against ecological protection has maintained rapid economic growth while showing a trend of continuous improvement in the quality of the ecological environment. The water quality of the Chongqing section of the main stream of the Yangtze River has remained in Class II for seven consecutive years, and the proportion of excellent water quality in 74 state-controlled sections has reached 100%. Since the implementation of the "New National Standard" for ambient air quality in 2013, the number of days with good air quality has increased from 206 days to 325 days. The safe utilization rate of key construction land has remained at 100% for three consecutive years, and all primary domestic waste in the central Urban area has been incinerated and zero landfill.
Next, Chongqing will continue to fight the battle to defend clear water, blue sky and pure land, strengthen the joint protection and governance of the ecological environment in the Yangtze River Basin, improve the quality and build a "waste-free city" in the entire region, and implement the rectification of feedback issues from the central ecological and environmental protection inspector with high standards. Strengthen ecosystem restoration and biodiversity protection, coordinate the management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand systems, and promote the protection and construction of national key ecological functional areas such as the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, Qinba Mountain Area, and Wuling Mountain Area based on the geographical location of 30 degrees north latitude. Deeply implement green and low-carbon transformation actions, highlight the synergy and efficiency of pollution reduction and carbon reduction at the enterprise, residential, industrial, and governance ends, promote the expansion and efficiency improvement of the carbon market, deepen national pilot projects for climate investment and financing, and continue to improve the value realization mechanism of ecological products. and horizontal ecological protection compensation mechanism, write a new chapter in strengthening important ecological barriers in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and make new contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China.
A promotional video for Chongqing's application to host the national home event on the June 5th Environment Day in 2025 was broadcast at the event.
Zhang Guozhi said that Chongqing will scientifically plan and carefully prepare, and under the guidance of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Central Civilization Office, studyXiDrawing on Guangxi's experience in hosting conferences, we will host the national home event on the June Five-Year Environment Day in 2025 at a high level.
