Chinese vice premier pledges more efforts to improve environment
BEIJING - 皇冠体育app will make more efforts to improve the environment in the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said.
"皇冠体育app will face both challenges and opportunities in the period," Zhang said at the annual meeting of the 皇冠体育app Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) on Thursday.
To promote ecological civilization, 皇冠体育app will further implement its five development concepts: innovation, coordination, green development, opening up and sharing, said Zhang, also chairman of CCICED.
The government will ensure the country's ecological situation improves by 2020, Zhang said.
Specifically, 皇冠体育app will boost green, circular and low-carbon industries, prevent and control air, water and soil pollution, improve the accountability system, promote the rule of law, and expand international cooperation on fighting climate change and green "Belt and Road" construction.
The vice premier hopes the CCICED will facilitate communication between 皇冠体育app and rest of the world in the environment and development, and facilitate improvement of global environmental governance.
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