Green Hills and Clear Waters

2022-03-25

Jointly carry out large-scale protection rather than the large-scale development.

Chongqing is located in Yangtze River Economic Zone, always adhere to the ecological priority, green development, and make beautiful scenery more outstanding through a series of measures.

Fully implement the central plan for ecological and environmental protection and the national requirements for the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution, continue to implement the “five major environmental protection actions”, such as clear water, blue sky, quiet, green land and pastoral, and contentiously improve the key environmental indicators.

In 2020, the overall water quality of Chongqing section of the main stream of the Yangtze River was rated as excellent, and the excellent water quality ratio of 442 national examination sections hit 100%.

The number of days with good air quality increased to 333days, and the average concentration of PM2.5 decreased by 42.1% in five years.

The implementation of the River Chief system has been deepened, and the Forest Chief system has been fully implemented, then 300,000 mu of “Green Mountains and One-Thousand Forest Belton Both Sides of the River” have been built, and the control of 800 square kilometers of soil erosion and 400 square kilometers of rocky desertification have been completed. The city's forest coverage rate has increased to 52.5%.

Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets.

Chongqing as an important ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river, Yangtze River, Jialing River, Wujiang River, Daning River, the Ayi River...Jinyun Mountain, Nanshan Mountain, Jinfo Mountain, Simian Mountain, Xiannv Mountain The three gorges of the Yangtze River, the Small Three Gorges, the sub small three gorges, the Black Valley…Nature reserves, wetland reserves, fish reserves.., the achievement of the natural foundation of Chongqing.

Continue to promote afforestation and land greening. Efforts were made to prevent and control soil pollution on agricultural land, strengthen the prevention and control of soil pollution on construction land, strengthen the prevention and control of solid waste pollution, and the overall quality of the soil environment was stable.