Ministry of Ecology and Environment: One CCER methodology is mature and one is released

Pei Xiaofei: Friends from the media, good morning, and welcome to the regular press conference of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in April. The theme of today's press conference is "Deeply Study and Practice the Experience of 'Xiamen Practice' and Comprehensively Promote the Comprehensive Management of Key Sea Areas and the Construction of Beautiful Bays". We have invited Mr. Zhang Zhifeng, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Marine Ecology and Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Mr. Liu Dejun, Spokesperson of the China Coast Guard, to introduce the protection of the marine ecological environment and law enforcement and supervision, and to answer your questions with me.

Next, I would like to report on three key tasks of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in the near future.

1. The quality of the ecological environment in the first quarter of 2024

In the first quarter of this year, the overall quality of ambient air quality and water ecological environment continued to improve across the country.

From the perspective of ambient air quality, in the first quarter, the average concentration of PM2.5 in 339 cities at and above the prefecture level was 43 micrograms per cubic meter, down 6.5% year-on-year, the average concentration of PM10, O3, SO2 and NO2 decreased year-on-year, and the average concentration of CO remained the same year-on-year, the proportion of days with good air quality was 83.6%, up 3.5 percentage points year-on-year, and the proportion of days with severe pollution and above was 2.4%, down 0.9 percentage points year-on-year. Among them, the average concentration of PM2.5 in the "2+36" cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas and 13 cities in the Fenwei Plain decreased by 7.2% and 16.7% year-on-year respectively, and the proportion of good days increased by 10.9 and 13.1 percentage points year-on-year, respectively. However, the average PM2.5 concentration in 31 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region increased year-on-year
Zhang Zhifeng: Thank you, speaker. Good morning, journalists, friends! In April, when the sea is facing the sea and the spring flowers are blooming, it is my pleasure to share with you the new progress, new achievements and new arrangements for the construction of marine ecological civilization and the protection of the ecological environment. Here, on behalf of the Department of Marine Ecology and Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you for your concern and support for our work.

Since the beginning of the new year, "Xiamen practice" has become a hot word spread by many media in the central government, and it can be said that the whole network is swiping the screen and the strength is out of the circle. Xiamen City is located on the sea and in the city, and is an important breeding ground and pioneer practice place of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought. In 1988, when General Secretary Xi Jinping was working in Xiamen, he pioneered the two-cross policy of "governing the lake according to law, intercepting and treating pollution, dredging and building banks, invigorating water bodies, and beautifying the environment", which opened the curtain on Xiamen's continuous and in-depth promotion of ecological civilization construction and efforts to build a bay-type ecological city. Over the past 36 years, Xiamen has deeply practiced and continuously enriched and expanded the successful experience of comprehensive management of Yundang Lake, formed a number of landmark achievements with Xiamen's recognition, national influence and world reputation, and also provided Xiamen empirical evidence for the historical, turning point and overall changes in China's ecological civilization construction, and profoundly demonstrated the truth and practice of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization.

We have realized that one of the core contents of the "Xiamen Practice" is to systematically govern the sea and protect the sea and promote the harmony between people and the sea. Since last year, we have thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and deeply studied and practiced the experience of "Xiamen Practice".