East China’s Jiangsu province has actively responded to the second round of the central government's ecological and environmental protection supervision that was carried out from March 25 to April 25 with the feedback report and rectification plan released to the provincial authorities on June 1st last year.
The rectification plan required Jiangsu to adhere to the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guidance, thoroughly implement the Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important directions on Jiangsu's work, and firmly shoulder the political responsibility of ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection.
The rectification plan hopes that Jiangsu will take the opportunity of the supervision and rectification to promote the green, low-carbon and high-quality development with greater efforts, and further continue the fight against pollution prevention and control with higher standards.
The rectification plan puts forward five key measures by breaking down the problems pointed out in the inspection report one by one so as to require active, resolute and thorough rectifications, and ensures that the rectification is fully completed by the end of 2025.
Jiangsu will accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of the energy industry. By 2025, the proportion of electric coal in coal consumption will increase to more than 65%, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption will reach about 18%, and the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation will reach more than 65 million kilowatts.
Efforts will be made to promote the green transformation and upgrading of the industry, with about 500 leading enterprises in green development, forming about 10 green development demonstration clusters, and building about 10 green industry supply chains.
Jiangsu will continue to promote pollution prevention and control. By 2025, the total emission of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides will be reduced by more than 10% compared with 2020, and promotions will be made in the ultra-low emission transformation of enterprises in key industries.
The province will strive to systematically promote ecological protection and restoration, continue to promote ecological protection and restoration of the Yangtze River, and fully implement the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River and ensure that by 2025, the main stream of the Yangtze River will reach Class II water quality.
Jiangsu will also continue to promote the comprehensive renovation of the Taihu Lake basin, the construction of the ecological corridor of the Grand Canal, the construction of the ecological security buffer zone and the ecological island pilot zone, implement major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems, and revise the biodiversity conservation strategy and action plan.
Efforts should be made to improve the modernization level of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity, accelerate the construction of a modern environmental law enforcement system and supervision system, comprehensively strengthen the legal protection of the ecological environment, constantly improve the ecological environment economic policy, deepen the "golden ring dialogue" mechanism, comprehensively improve the collection and treatment rate of sewage, and build a modern ecological environment monitoring system.
