Xu Kunlin, Governor of Jiangsu Province, and Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, signed a cooperation agreement in Suzhou on Wednesday to support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment and accelerate the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
Huang Runqiu said that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has attached great importance to and fully supported the ecological environment protection work in Jiangsu Province by conducting in-depth provincial and ministerial cooperation in the field of ecological environment and promoting positive progress in ecological environment governance in Jiangsu so as to have continuously improved the quality of ecological environment.
He hoped that both sides will take this signing of the agreement as an opportunity to fully strengthen pollution prevention and control, promote green and low-carbon transformation of development methods, support high-quality development with high-quality ecological environment, and lay a solid ecological foundation for the new chapter of modernization construction in Jiangsu.
Xu Kunlin said that Jiangsu has strengthened ecological priority and green development, promoted breakthrough progress in economic and social development and ecological civilization construction, and achieved the best level of ecological environment quality since the new century, presenting a good situation of high-quality development and high-level protection coordination and progress.
Jiangsu will make greater efforts to promote green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, step up pollution prevention and control, and build a modern environmental governance system to ensure more fruitful cooperation between departments and provinces so as to support high-quality economic development and create high-quality life for the people to become a national demonstration in promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
According to the agreement, both sides will accelerate cooperation in promoting green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, stepping up pollution prevention and control warfare, boosting the construction of ecological and environmental infrastructure with high standards, and enhancing ecological and environmental governance capabilities.
