The city of Suzhou has made every effort to strengthen the improvement of ecological civilization by advocating green development so that it has painted a piece of double-sided embroidery with "strong economy" and "beautiful environment".
It was about noon in Xiejialu Village, Zhenze Town, Wujiang District. Xu Yuejuan's homestay farmhouse thronged with tourists from near and afar.
In the past, the casting companies in the village polluted the environment by emitting smoke and dust.
In recent years, as local government started to regulate polluting enterprises in the rural areas, Xiejialu Village has closed down industrial enterprises with backward production capacity and opted for the development of rural leisure tourism instead.
The village received more than 100 thousand visitors in the past two years. It was also listed in the second batch of characteristic pastoral villages in Jiangsu Province.
In recent years, Suzhou has accelerated its green transformation to have promoted coal reduction, reduction and elimination of inefficient production capacity, and reduced pollution emissions from the source.
From 2017 to 2019, 4572 low-efficiency capacity enterprises and 507 chemical enterprises were shut down in the city.
Suzhou will continue to implement the action plan for the protection and restoration of the ecology along the Yangtze River, implement the negative list guidelines for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and promote ecological restoration to make ecologically livable green countryside and improve forest quality.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
