Ministry of Ecology and Environment： The phased goal of the ＂Thirteenth Five-Year Plan＂ for pollution prevention and control has been completely and successfully exceeded.

　　Cctv newsOn August 18th, the State Council held a conference on building a beautiful China where man and nature live in harmony.

　　Huang Runqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, introduced at the meeting that the nine binding indicators of the ecological environment and the phased objectives of the tough battle against pollution determined in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" have been fully and successfully exceeded, and the ecological environment has been significantly improved, which has planted a green background and quality of building a well-off society in an all-round way.

　　In terms of atmospheric environmental quality, in 2020, the proportion of excellent days in cities at prefecture level and above reached 87%, an increase of 5.8 percentage points over 2015 and 2.5 percentage points over the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" target. PM2.5, that is, the average concentration of fine particles in cities at or above the prefecture level that failed to meet the standards reached 37 μ g/m3, which was 28.8% lower than that in 2015 and 10.8 percentage points higher than the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" target.

　　In terms of water environment quality, the proportion of excellent surface water bodies in China has increased from 66% in 2015 to 83.4% in 2020, exceeding the target of the 13 th Five-Year Plan by 13.4 percentage points; The proportion of inferior V water bodies decreased from 9.7% in 2015 to 0.6% in 2020, which exceeded the target of the 13th Five-Year Plan by 4.4 percentage points.

　　In terms of soil environmental quality, the safe utilization rate of contaminated farmland and contaminated land in China both exceeded 90%, successfully achieving the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" goal. In terms of ecological environment, the national forest coverage rate reached 23.04% in 2020, and the area of nature reserves and various nature reserves accounted for 18% of the land area.

　　In addition, in terms of carbon emission reduction in response to climate change, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 decreased by 18.8% compared with 2015, and the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" target task was successfully completed.