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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) — Chinese authorities have released an action plan to protect and develop beautiful rivers and lakes for the 2025-2027 period, focusing on improving the quality of aquatic ecosystems.
A document jointly released Wednesday by China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other government agencies sets targets to make significant progress in developing beautiful rivers and lakes by 2030 and to generally complete the process by 2035.
The plan aims to promote targeted, science-based and legal pollution control, coordinate water resources management, aquatic environment and aquatic ecology, and establish an integrated environmental management system in the upper and lower reaches of key river basins to improve the health of river and lake ecosystems.
The national list of beautiful rivers and lakes to be protected and developed includes 2,573 rivers and water bodies, including main channels of large rivers, important tributaries, key lakes and reservoirs that perform important ecological functions, have sensitive and fragile ecological environments or attract wide public attention.
The plan contains 19 specific measures aimed at strengthening and deepening the management of the aquatic environment, ensuring basic environmentally safe water use, and comprehensively promoting efforts for protection and development. –0–