Ministry of Ecology and Environment's Weekly News (May 12-May 18)

On May 17, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants Implementation Experience Exchange Meeting was held in Beijing. Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.>>> more to read here

The third round of the second batch of central ecological and environmental protection inspectors thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and important instructions on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and coordinated the implementation of river basin inspections and provincial inspections, not only focusing on the overall problems of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, as well as the common problems of the ecological environment, but also identifying the outstanding problems of each province (city). The inspection teams went deep into the front line and the scene, verified a number of outstanding ecological and environmental problems, and verified a number of formalist and bureaucratic problems such as inaction, slow action, failure to take responsibility, failure to tackle difficulties, and even perfunctory response and fraud. In order to play a warning role and effectively promote the rectification of problems, the first batch of 7 typical cases is hereby publicly reported.>>> more to read here

  06   The 2024 annual working conference on cooperation between the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Ministry of Shanghai was held

Recently, the Yangtze River Delta Regional Ecological and Environmental Protection Coordination Group Office held its fourth meeting in Shanghai. Zhao Yingmin, Director of the Office of the Coordination Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Liu Duo, Director of the Office of the Coordination Group and Vice Mayor of Shanghai, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.>>> more to read here

May 15 this year is the twelfth National Low Carbon Day. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government (Jiangsu Provincial People's Government) jointly held the 2024 National Low Carbon Day in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. Liu Bingjiang, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Hu Gang, Vice Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the event and delivered speeches.>>> more to read here

In April, the average number of days with good air quality in 339 cities at and above the prefecture level was 89.8 percent, up 8.7 percentage points year-on-year, the average number of days with severe pollution and above was 1.2 percent, down 3.5 percentage points year-on-year, and the average number of days exceeding the standard caused by sand and dust weather was 4.4 percent, of which 1.1 percent were heavily polluted.>>> more to read here

In the second half of May, affected by high temperatures in the early stage, the air quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas, the northern part of the Yangtze River Delta region, the northeast region, the Fenwei Plain and most of the northwest region was mainly good to slightly polluted. In the middle and late periods, under the influence of cold air activities and precipitation, the air quality in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas, Northeast China and South China improved, and some areas of Xinjiang were affected by sand and dust weather, and the air quality was mainly moderate to severe pollution.>>> more to read here