2025 Key Focus Areas for "Dual Carbon" Work in 31 Provinces and Cities!

On the morning of January 14, 2025, the third session of the 16th People's Congress of Beijing was grandly opened, and Beijing Mayor Yin Yong delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Coordinated promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth, shifting ecological construction from quantity growth to quality improvement. Let the public enjoy more natural beauty.

Continue to deepen the battle against pollution. Implement the "0.1 microgram" action, strengthen structural, engineering, and management emission reductions, promote new energy for motor vehicles and non-road mobile machinery, build 1,000 electric vehicle supercharging stations, continuously carry out a 100-day special dust control campaign, and basically eliminate heavy pollution weather. Improve the collection, treatment, and operation mechanisms of rural domestic sewage, dynamically eliminate black and odorous water bodies and inferior Class V water bodies, actively promote the construction of happy rivers and lakes, strengthen ecological environment protection and management in the Miyun Reservoir basin, and create a number of waterfront public spaces such as the North Canal, Liangshui River, Yanqi Lake, and Jinhai Lake. Strengthen the source control of soil pollution to ensure the safe use of arable land and key construction land.

On the morning of January 14, the third session of the 18th People's Congress of Tianjin was opened. At the opening meeting, Mayor Zhang delivered the "Government Work Report."

Key tasks are as follows:

Continue to fight the battle to protect blue skies, clear water, and clean soil, strengthen coordinated policy implementation, engineering governance, and technological empowerment, Implement upgrades of coal power units and green transformation of traditional high-energy-consuming industries, promote comprehensive management of mobile sources, continuously carry out green electricity carbon emission reduction, build 16 happy rivers and lakes, strengthen comprehensive solid waste management, and reinforce source control of soil pollution. , reduce the annual average PM2.5 concentration to below 38 micrograms per cubic meter, and increase the proportion of good air quality days to over 72%. Expand green ecological spaces, improve the ecological environment zoning and control system, promote key ecological projects, improve urban green space management mechanisms, push for the early completion and opening of Wudadao Park, Liulin Park Phase III, and Design Park Phase I, build and upgrade 80 pocket parks, and continuously enhance the public's sense of ecological benefits.

At 9 a.m. on January 13, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Hebei Province was opened. Governor Wang Zhengpu delivered the government work report of the Hebei Provincial People's Government.

Focus on ecological environment governance and accelerate comprehensive green transformation. Coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth to build a beautiful Hebei with blue skies, green land, and clear water.

Promote the battle to protect blue skies, clear water, and clean soil with greater intensity. Deepen continuous air quality improvement actions, strengthen coordinated pollutant control, and consolidate the "retreat ten" achievements. Deepen systematic water ecological environment governance, with the compliance rate of drinking water sources at the county level and above reaching 100%. Implement soil pollution source control actions and build "waste-free cities." Address feedback from the first central ecological and environmental protection inspection, and carry out provincial-level ecological and environmental protection inspections.

Accelerate green and low-carbon development with higher standards. Develop green and low-carbon industries. Expand the environmental performance achievements of key industries to grade A, and select a batch of leading enterprises. Create 100 provincial-level or above green factories. Cultivate and expand new growth points such as green buildings. Steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Strengthen product carbon footprint management, deepen emission rights trading reform, focus on pilot cities for carbon peak and zero-carbon parks construction, promote recycling of waste materials, and accelerate the formation of green production and lifestyle.

On January 17, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Shanxi Province was grandly opened in Taiyuan. Governor Jin Xiangjun delivered the government work report on behalf of the provincial government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Focus on building a beautiful Shanxi and accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

Orderly implement the Shanxi carbon peak action. Improve the carbon emission statistics and accounting system, establish product carbon footprint management system and carbon label certification system, and build a national carbon measurement center. Continue to promote energy saving and carbon reduction in key industries, carry out low-carbon transformation of coal power, with energy efficiency benchmark capacity in the steel industry exceeding 30%, and more than 50% of large coal mines meeting green mine standards, promoting continuous decline in energy consumption, water consumption, and carbon emission intensity. Deepen the national carbon peak and climate investment and financing pilot.

Improve the comprehensive green transformation system and mechanism. Implement ecological environment zoning control, improve support policies and standards system, and develop green and low-carbon industries. Improve the green manufacturing system and service system, and promote green product certification. Promote contract energy management and environmental trusteeship services, Cultivate 30 provincial and national green factories, and build zero-carbon and low-carbon parks dominated by green electricity. Build a clean transportation pilot leading area, carry out demonstration applications of methanol-hydrogen heavy trucks. Develop green buildings. Build "waste-free cities." Strengthen comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste. Carry out nationwide green and low-carbon actions.

On the morning of January 14, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was opened in Hohhot. Chairman Wang Lixia of the Autonomous Region People's Government delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Promote energy saving, carbon reduction, and green development. Accelerate the promotion and application of energy-saving technologies in the industrial sector, actively participate in the national carbon market construction, establish a policy system adapted to the "dual control" of carbon emissions, promote the construction of version 2.0 zero-carbon parks, and expand the scale of forest and grassland carbon sink development and trading. Strengthen resource recycling. Our region's wind power and photovoltaic equipment are about to face a "retirement wave." Efficient recycling and reuse must be done well, supporting the construction of the Baotou wind power retirement equipment resource reutilization demonstration zone, Ordos high-alumina fly ash and recycled aluminum resource utilization base, and Xilingol industrial solid waste comprehensive utilization base, achieving "turning waste into treasure" in multiple fields.

On January 16, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Liaoning Province grandly opened in Shenyang. Li Lecheng, Deputy Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Governor, delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Adhere to ecological priority and accelerate the construction of a beautiful Liaoning. Consciously practice Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, Coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth , making green development more substantial and profound.

On January 14, the fourth session of the 14th People's Congress of Jilin Province opened in Changchun. Governor Hu Yuting delivered the provincial government work report.

The key tasks for 2025 are as follows:

Focus on consolidating and expanding ecological advantages, striving to promote comprehensive green transformation. Coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth, and accelerate the construction of a beautiful Jilin.

Actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Establish a provincial carbon emission statistical accounting system, promote the transition from "dual control" of energy consumption to "dual control" of carbon emissions. Optimize the energy structure and implement green energy supply. Continue to advance carbon market construction, standardize the entire process of voluntary emission reduction project construction and carbon sink trading activities. Build a waste material recycling system, promote green product renewal and quality upgrading. Advocate a simple, moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized, and healthy lifestyle and way of living.

On the morning of January 13, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Heilongjiang Province opened in Harbin. Governor Liang Huiling delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Promote green transformation of economic and social development. Adhere to ecological priority and green development, coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth, and build and strengthen the northern ecological security barrier.

Steadily promote green and low-carbon development. Implement a comprehensive conservation strategy and carry out the national water-saving action. Conduct thorough land use inspection and rectification in development zones to improve resource utilization efficiency. Vigorously promote the "three-linkage" of energy-saving and carbon reduction, heating, and flexibility transformation of coal power units, and accelerate intelligent transformation of coal mines. Support major industrial projects to carry out pilot projects such as integrated new energy production and consumption and "green power direct supply," and promote the construction of independent new energy storage power station projects. Accelerate the conversion of ecological product value, complete carbon emission verification and re-verification for key units, improve the provincial forestry carbon sink trading system, create the "Green Carbon Brand" of Longjiang, and actively integrate into the national carbon market. Implement a new round of mineral exploration breakthrough actions.

The third session of the 16th People's Congress of Shanghai opened on the morning of January 15 at the World Expo Center. Gong Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai, delivered the "Government Work Report."

Key tasks are as follows:

Focus on building a beautiful Shanghai and promoting a modern society where humans and nature coexist harmoniously. Deeply practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and promote Shanghai's ecological civilization construction to a new level.

Actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Accelerate the establishment of a mechanism transitioning from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, implement the "three-linkage" of coal power energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation, flexibility transformation, and heating transformation, promote major projects such as Mongolian power entering Shanghai and deep offshore wind power, promote the construction and application of virtual power plants and new energy storage, and build electric vehicle charging and discharging networks. Improve the product carbon footprint management system, establish a product carbon label certification system, and eliminate 400 outdated production capacities. Implement green building star standards and promote energy-saving renovation of public buildings. Promote green lifestyles, vigorously advance the "Clean Plate Campaign," and energy-saving use of air conditioners. Deepen the construction of Shanghai's carbon market.

The third session of the 14th People's Congress of Jiangsu Province opened on January 19 in Nanjing. Xu Kunlin, Governor of Jiangsu Province, delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Accelerate the creation of a highland for green and low-carbon development. Thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, further deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system, and accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

Promote the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle. Build a batch of zero-carbon factories and create a batch of zero-carbon parks with demonstration and leading effects. Continuously optimize Jiangsu Province's product carbon footprint public service platform and establish a carbon label certification system. Actively participate in the national carbon market construction, carry out carbon emission statistical accounting, and accelerate the promotion of market-based trading of carbon emission rights, energy use rights, and pollution discharge rights. Promote the comprehensive utilization of salt caverns in an orderly manner according to local conditions. Fully promote carbon inclusive activities in public institutions. Vigorously promote clean and efficient coal utilization, implement green power projects entering Jiangsu, enterprises, and parks, carry out pilot projects of direct green power connection for enterprises, and improve the nearby and local consumption capacity of green power.

On the morning of January 14, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Zhejiang Province grandly opened in Hangzhou. Liu Jie, Governor of Zhejiang Province, delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening, and growth, building a high-level ecological province.

Promote green and low-carbon development. Carefully organize a series of activities marking the 20th anniversary of the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Deepen the construction of coordinated innovation zones for pollution reduction and carbon reduction, orderly promote the transition from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, and free up more than 5 million tons of standard coal in existing energy consumption.

On the morning of January 20, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Anhui Province opened. Governor Wang Qingxian delivered the "Government Work Report."

Key tasks are as follows:

Collaboratively promote carbon reduction, pollution control, and green growth, accelerating the construction of a green and beautiful Jianghuai homeland. Intensify the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, strengthen ecological protection, restoration, and value conversion, demonstrating Anhui's responsibility in jointly building the Yangtze River Delta Beautiful China Pilot Zone.

Expand the transformation path of the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, promote industrial ecology and ecological industrialization. Upgrade and build the Xin'an River–Qiandao Lake ecological environment joint protection cooperation zone, accelerate the establishment of a cross-regional, market-oriented, diversified long-term ecological compensation mechanism. Build a high-level national forestry chief system reform demonstration zone, fully implement the provincial forestry carbon credit system, accelerate the construction of the provincial forestry carbon sink trading platform, and optimize and upgrade the under-forest economy system including forest food, forest tourism, and forest health care. Support qualified regions to carry out pilot projects for paid use and trading of emission rights in the Yangtze River Delta region, and actively participate in the construction of the national carbon market.

Accelerate green and low-carbon development. Fully implement fossil energy consumption budget management for key energy-consuming units, encourage the purchase of green certificates and the use of green electricity. Build and operate supporting power sources with an installed capacity of 4.96 million kilowatts, and add more than 6 million kilowatts of renewable energy generation capacity. Accelerate the construction of green manufacturing and service systems, deepen pilot projects for coordinated innovation in pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and launch the second batch of zero-carbon industrial parks. Accelerate the development of green buildings and prefabricated buildings, promote the application of building photovoltaic integration. Fully operate the "dual carbon" integrated management platform, and carry out carbon footprint accounting in industries such as new energy vehicles. Advocate green lifestyles, encourage green travel and green consumption.

On the morning of January 13, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Fujian Province grandly opened at the Fujian Hall. Governor Zhao Long delivered the government work report on behalf of the provincial government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Adhere to green development, consolidate the advantages of lucid waters and lush mountains, and deepen the potential of invaluable assets. Thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, deepen the construction of the national ecological civilization pilot zone, and build an ecologically strong province from a higher starting point.

Double efforts to promote green and low-carbon transformation. Actively advocate green production and lifestyles, vigorously develop the green economy, making green the distinctive base color of high-quality development. Control total volume, strictly implement ecological environment zoning control, strictly control ecological environment access, and advance the "Ten Carbon Peak Actions" step by step with plans, promoting the comprehensive transformation from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions. Reduce stock, promote the construction of the National Carbon Measurement Center (Fujian). Carry out circular transformation of provincial-level and above parks, explore coordinated innovation paths for pollution reduction and carbon reduction in cities, parks, and enterprises, accelerate the construction of a batch of zero-carbon parks, and support Meizhou Island in striving to create a "near-zero carbon island" jointly built by the ministry and province. Increase increment, cultivate new growth points such as green buildings, promote the complementary development of multiple energy sources including water, wind, solar, hydrogen, and natural gas, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, and achieve 100% use of clean and green electricity by manufacturing enterprises as soon as possible.

Continue efforts in ecological civilization system reform. Deepen innovation in the system and mechanism of ecological civilization construction, strive to produce more reform achievements with Fujian characteristics. Improve integrated protection mechanisms, accelerate the improvement of the natural protected area system centered on Wuyi Mountain National Park, and strengthen ecological protection and restoration of the "two screens, one belt, six rivers, and two streams." Deepen the implementation of the river and lake chief system and forestry chief system, build beautiful cities, beautiful countryside, beautiful rivers and lakes, beautiful bays, and beautiful parks, and successively create basic units for building a beautiful Fujian. Improve systematic governance mechanisms, coordinate the construction of ecological environment governance responsibility systems, supervision systems, and others, improve the natural resource asset property rights system and management system, and improve mechanisms such as ecological policing. Strengthen biosafety system governance and full-chain prevention and control, coordinate the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems such as forests, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and oceans. Expand market-based incentive mechanisms, deepen reforms in ecological protection compensation, environmental credit collaborative supervision, and ecological environment damage compensation. Support the construction of national forestry carbon sink pilot cities in Sanming, Longyan, and Nanping. Promote pilot projects for marine fishery carbon sink trading, continuously explore mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products, turning ecological "green" into pocket "gold."

On the morning of January 17, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Jiangxi Province opened. Governor Ye Jianchun delivered the government work report to the congress.

Key tasks are as follows:

Fully promote the construction of beautiful Jiangxi, accelerate the creation of a highland for ecological civilization construction. Deepen the construction of the national ecological civilization pilot zone, fully implement the three-year action plan to build a national ecological civilization construction highland, making the "Jiangxi model" of Beautiful China more substantial.

Accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Improve the land space development and protection mechanism, the coordinated supervision mechanism for ecological protection red lines, and improve the main functional area system. Promote the gradual shift from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, improve the carbon emission statistical accounting system, build a provincial monitoring and analysis service platform, and establish a monitoring data sharing mechanism. Deeply implement the ten energy-saving and carbon-reduction actions, establish energy-saving management files for key energy-consuming units with an annual comprehensive energy consumption of 5,000 tons of standard coal or more, carry out energy efficiency diagnosis in depth, achieve full coverage of energy-saving supervision, promote the preparation of city-level energy balance sheets, and support the construction of "zero-carbon parks." Implement green transformation standard improvement actions, improve the resource recycling system, promote high-quality development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries, deepen the construction of "waste-free cities" across the region, and turn more resources into "treasures" serving development.

Improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products. Deepen the comprehensive investigation and unified confirmation and registration of all natural resource assets owned by the public, and accelerate the construction of a natural resource asset management system. Deepen the pilot of the national ecological product value realization mechanism, improve the value evaluation system and total value accounting methods, establish a three-level linkage ecological resource savings and operation mechanism at the provincial, municipal, and county levels, accelerate the construction of regional ecological product trading platforms, and promote trading of emission rights, carbon emission rights, and others. Promote the construction of key provinces for the national forest sustainable management pilot and deepen the pilot zone for collective forest property rights system reform, improve the operation mechanism of the "three rights separation" of collective forest land, vigorously develop new formats such as forest food and forest health care, and achieve a total output value of under-forest economy exceeding 300 billion yuan. Green ecology is Jiangxi's greatest wealth, greatest advantage, and greatest brand. We will remain unremitting, fully consolidate and improve, and always be a "top student" in national ecological civilization construction.

On the morning of January 20, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Shandong Province grandly opened in Jinan. Governor Zhou Naixiang delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Work hard and seek practical results in accelerating comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation. Collaboratively promote carbon reduction, pollution control, and green growth, actively build a Beautiful China pilot zone.

On the morning of January 18, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Henan Province opened. Governor Wang Kai delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Promote a comprehensive green transition with greater intensity.

Accelerate energy saving, carbon reduction, and efficiency improvement. Promote the full transition from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, implementing 200 energy-saving and carbon-reduction renovation projects. Accelerate the construction of the National Carbon Measurement Center (Henan). Strictly control the total coal consumption in key areas, and promote full coverage of green transformation in four key industries: steel, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, and building materials, Build 100 green factories and 10 super energy-efficient factories. Promote the construction and application of industrial green microgrids, support direct green power supply for new infrastructure. Implement the green transformation project for transportation equipment, with a green replacement rate of over 50% for heavy-duty freight vehicles. Newly built buildings shall fully comply with green standards. Improve the recycling network for renewable resources and optimize the construction of a number of circular economy industrial parks. Advocate a simple, moderate, green, and low-carbon lifestyle to promote harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

On January 16, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Hubei Province opened. Governor Li Dianxun delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Take the lead in comprehensively promoting green, low-carbon, and circular development, striving to paint a new beautiful picture of Hubei. Adhere to the principle that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, promote "green growth" based on resource conservation and environmental friendliness, and build a beautiful Hubei where humans and nature coexist harmoniously. Vigorously promote green and low-carbon transformation. Focus on better realizing ecological value, accelerate industrial ecologicalization and ecological industrialization, and orderly advance the transition from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, Implement ten major green transformation projects including energy-saving and carbon-reduction renovations and green technology promotion, and build ten circular economy industrial chains such as urban mining and green construction. Support Xiangyang and Shiyan in building national carbon peak pilot cities, support Huangshi, Ezhou, and Xiantao in creating zero-waste cities, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, and build the national carbon market center and carbon finance center. Resolutely fight the battle against pollution.

On January 14, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Hunan Province opened in Changsha. Governor Mao Weiming delivered the government work report on behalf of the provincial government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Continue to promote the construction of Beautiful Hunan.

Accelerate green and low-carbon transformation. Coordinate efforts to reduce carbon, pollution, and expand green growth, and speed up the comprehensive green transition of economic and social development. Orderly advance the ten major actions for carbon peaking, implement total resource management and comprehensive conservation systems, carry out comprehensive solid waste management and quality and efficiency improvement actions for resource utilization, improve the waste recycling system, and promote the construction of "zero-waste cities." Accelerate the construction of a new energy system, vigorously develop non-fossil energy, and speed up the advancement of the "Ning electricity into Hunan," "Xinjiang electricity into Hunan," and Hunan-Guangdong "back-to-back" interconnection projects, striving to complete and operate the "three zones and three halls."

On January 15, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Guangdong Province opened. Governor Wang Weizhong delivered the government work report at the opening meeting.

Key environmental protection work for 2025 is as follows:

Deepen the construction of green and beautiful Guangdong ecology, accelerate the creation of a leading area for Beautiful China. Adhere to integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, accelerate beautiful construction across urban and rural areas, and coordinate efforts to reduce carbon, pollution, and expand green growth.

Accelerate the comprehensive green transition of economic and social development. Actively and steadily promote carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, advance energy saving and carbon reduction by industry and sector, improve the carbon emission statistics and accounting system, establish and improve the product carbon footprint management system and carbon label certification system, build a number of zero-carbon parks, and steadily expand the carbon trading market. Develop models such as "replacement + recycling" to smooth the recycling chain of renewable resources.

On January 13, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region opened in Nanning. Chairman Lan Tianli delivered the government work report on behalf of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's Government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Coordinate efforts to reduce carbon, pollution, and expand green growth, accelerate the comprehensive green transition of economic and social development. Build a beautiful Guangxi, create a healthy development ecology for green and low-carbon industries, and solidly build a southern ecological security barrier for China.

Implement green economy demonstration actions. Promote the construction of the new energy industry chain. Strengthen energy-saving and carbon-reduction technological transformation in traditional industries, promote pilot projects for coordinated pollution reduction and carbon reduction innovation, and establish a number of zero-carbon parks. Establish and improve the "dual carbon" standard measurement and certification system. Accelerate the creation of national-level forestry industry clusters and develop the under-forest economy. Carry out actions to consolidate and improve the achievements of creating resource-saving government agencies. Cultivate new growth points such as green buildings. Develop the water-saving industry. Implement comprehensive solid waste management actions and vigorously develop the circular economy.

On the morning of January 14, the fourth session of the 7th People's Congress of Hainan Province opened in Haikou. Governor Liu Xiaoming delivered the government work report on behalf of the provincial government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Focus on consolidating the achievements of ecological civilization construction.

Adhere to ecological priority and green development, strengthen the remediation of prominent environmental issues, and protect the green mountains and clear waters, and the blue seas and skies.

Continue to advance the "dual carbon" work. Promote the construction of a low-carbon island, improve the waste recycling system. Fight the final battle of dual control of energy consumption, build a dual control system for carbon emissions, and establish a carbon footprint management mechanism for characteristic products of the Hainan Free Trade Port. Introduce the provincial GEP accounting implementation plan , promote the "three waters coordination" and "two mountains" transformation in the Wanquan River Basin, and promote the implementation of the ecological protection compensation mechanism for the Songtao Reservoir Basin.

On the morning of January 19, the third session of the sixth Chongqing Municipal People's Congress grandly opened. Mayor Hu Henghua delivered the government work report on behalf of the municipal government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Focus on building a leading area for Beautiful China construction, achieving new progress in strengthening the important ecological barrier of the upper Yangtze River.

Accelerate green and low-carbon transformation and development. Promote the national pilot for deepening climate-adaptive city construction, accelerate the establishment of a green finance reform and innovation pilot zone, and build a dual control system for carbon emissions. Promote energy-saving and carbon reduction upgrades in industries such as power, steel, and chemicals, improve the recycling system for waste resources, and build green manufacturing, green services, and transformation finance systems. Promote trading of carbon emission rights and water use rights, and improve ecological protection compensation systems for forests, water flows, and other resources.

Improve the ecological civilization management system. Strengthen ecological environment zoning control and fully implement the pollutant discharge permit system. Deepen the reform of the paid use system for natural resources. Establish a proactive ecological environment risk detection mechanism and strengthen full-chain closed-loop ecological environment risk control. Successfully hold the national main event for the 6.5 Environment Day and promote green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.

The fourth session of the 14th Sichuan Provincial People's Congress opened on the morning of January 20. Governor Shi Xiaolin delivered the work report on behalf of the provincial government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Strengthen ecological environment protection and construction to promote comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Coordinate efforts to reduce carbon, pollution, expand greenery, and grow, better protecting the beautiful ecological home of Sichuan.

Promote the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.

Strictly control carbon emissions for new projects, pilot the construction of zero-carbon parks and zero-carbon factories.

Accelerate ultra-low emission transformation in key industries such as steel, cement, coal power, and waste incineration power generation.

Develop green and low-carbon buildings and promote the resource utilization of urban construction waste.

Continue to advance household waste classification work.

On January 19, the third session of the 14th Guizhou Provincial People's Congress held its opening meeting. Governor Li Bingjun delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Deepen the construction of Beautiful Guizhou. Adhere to ecological priority and green development, coordinate efforts to reduce carbon, pollution, expand greenery, and grow, promoting comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

Accelerate green and low-carbon transformation. Speed up the upgrading and transformation of coal power, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, steel, and other industries, resolutely curb the blind development of "two highs and one low" projects. Vigorously develop green and low-carbon industries and explore the construction of low-carbon and zero-carbon industrial parks. Strengthen recycling and reuse of renewable resources, accelerate the construction of key national waste material recycling system cities such as Guiyang and Bijie. Continue to promote the shift of bulk cargo transportation from road to rail and water. Promote green office, green travel, and green consumption.

Improve the ecological civilization system. Deeply implement ecological environment zoning control system. Coordinate the advancement of ecological environment damage compensation. Explore large-scale development paths for afforestation carbon sinks. Continuously broaden the "Two Mountains" transformation path, promote reform of ecological product total value accounting, and explore the establishment of ecological product accounting and trading mechanisms. Innovatively organize the Ecological Civilization Guiyang International Forum.

On January 18, the third session of the 14th Yunnan Provincial People's Congress opened in Kunming. Governor Wang Yubo delivered the government work report on behalf of the provincial government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Coordinate efforts to reduce carbon, pollution, expand greenery, and grow, accelerating the construction of Beautiful Yunnan.

Vigorously promote green and low-carbon development. Implement renewable energy substitution actions, build zero-waste cities, zero-waste parks, and zero-waste enterprises, and strive to shape a green and low-carbon regional brand. Deeply advance the "Carbon Sink Yunnan" action, actively participate in the national carbon market construction, explore carbon sink monitoring, measurement, and accounting mechanisms, establish carbon footprint management systems and carbon label certification systems for key advantageous products, and build a green electricity and carbon asset trading system linking "certificates and carbon." Build zero-carbon parks with high quality. Strive for the national pilot of ecological product value realization mechanisms.

On the morning of January 19, the third session of the 12th Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress opened in Lhasa. Acting Chairman Gama Zeden delivered the government work report on behalf of the regional government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Accelerate the construction of green development methods. Strictly implement ecological environment zoning control measures. Orderly carry out green electricity hydrogen production and "photovoltaic sand control" pilots. Formulate the autonomous region's ecological product catalog list, conduct surveys on the development potential of new afforestation carbon sink resources, and launch pilot projects for forest and grassland carbon sink development and trading. Continue to promote energy saving and carbon reduction in key areas such as industry, urban and rural areas, transportation, and public institutions, achieving comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

On the morning of January 16, the third session of the 14th Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress opened in Xi'an. Shaanxi Governor Zhao Gang delivered the government work report.

Key tasks are as follows:

Strengthen the ecological security barrier and accelerate the green transformation of development methods.

Promote green and low-carbon development. Steadily carry out energy efficiency improvement and upgrading, low-carbon development actions in key industries, build zero-carbon parks, and expand green electricity trading scale. Implement carbon emission statistics accounting and energy use budget management, actively participate in national carbon emission rights and greenhouse gas reduction trading. Promote the development of green factories, green mines, and green buildings, creating a green and low-carbon industrial ecosystem.

On the morning of January 20, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Gansu Province opened in Lanzhou, and Governor Ren Zhenhe delivered the "Government Work Report."

Key tasks are as follows:

Establish a pattern of great protection and governance, resolutely build a national ecological security barrier in the western region.

Deepen the battle against pollution prevention and control. Carry out air quality improvement actions, strengthen pollution control in industrial parks, accelerate ultra-low emission transformation in key industries such as steel, cement, and coking, and consolidate the achievements of air pollution prevention in key cities such as Lanzhou. Steadily advance the "cleaning of four disorders" in rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, continuously carry out water pollution inspection and rectification in provincial-level and above industrial parks, deepen the governance of urban and rural black and odorous water bodies, and improve the urban and rural domestic waste and sewage disposal systems. Implement source control of soil pollution, strengthen rural non-point source pollution control, enhance full-process supervision of hazardous waste, and accelerate the construction of national "waste-free cities" in Lanzhou, Tianshui, Jinchang, and Lanzhou New Area. Actively participate in the national carbon market trading and actively apply for national carbon peak pilot projects. Establish and improve the mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products and compensating for ecological environmental damage. Vigorously promote green buildings, green transportation, and green consumption, and accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

On the morning of January 19, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Qinghai Province grandly opened. Acting Governor Luo Dongchuan delivered the government work report on behalf of the provincial government.

Key environmental protection work for 2025 is as follows:

Build a grand pattern of ecological protection and governance. Improve the integrated protection and systematic governance mechanism for mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts; promote significant achievements in the landmark battles of the "Three-North" project; advance the high-quality implementation of the Huangshui "mountain and water" project; effectively implement key ecological protection and restoration projects in the Tongtian River Basin, Animaqing Mountain Range, Qaidam Basin, and Gonghe Basin; and strengthen normalized ecological environment management in the Muli mining area. Complete more than 5 million mu of national land greening, over 1.3 million mu of desertification control, and more than 8 million mu of black soil-type degraded grassland restoration. Implement major biodiversity protection projects, accelerate the establishment of the Xining National Botanical Garden, and consolidate the fishing and capture bans in "one river, one lake, and one river." Deepen Qinghai's climate change adaptation actions, promote the construction of ecological water replenishment and artificial weather modification capabilities, and build the Wali Pass global atmospheric background and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau big data application center science and technology innovation platform. Strictly and tightly advance the rectification and closure of issues from central ecological and environmental inspections and Yellow River warning films, continuously and deeply fight the battles to protect blue skies, clear water, and clean soil, carry out performance upgrade actions for key industries in air pollution prevention, continue to promote the upgrading, expansion, and capacity enhancement of sewage treatment plants in key towns, garbage incineration power generation projects, strengthen comprehensive pollution control and filamentous algae management in Qinghai Lake's terrestrial area, implement a comprehensive solid waste management action plan, complete the "waste-free city" construction tasks in Xining, Haixi, and Yushu, and promote continuous improvement of ecological environment quality.

On the morning of January 19, the third session of the 13th People's Congress of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region opened in Yinchuan. Zhang Yupu, Chairman of the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, delivered the government work report to the congress.

Key tasks are as follows:

Adhere to the "One River, Three Mountains" baseline, achieving new breakthroughs in strengthening ecological civilization construction. Deeply practice the "Two Mountains" concept, coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, accelerate the construction of beautiful cities and beautiful countryside, strive to create a "Beautiful China Pilot Zone," and continuously improve the people's satisfaction with the ecological environment.

Promote green and low-carbon transformation throughout society. Establish a product carbon footprint management system and carbon label certification system, promote the comprehensive transformation from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions. Carry out the Yellow River protection publicity and practice month activities themed "Low-Carbon Production · Green Life." Vigorously promote low-carbon production methods, deeply promote the coordinated development of new energy development and characteristic advantageous industries, deeply implement energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation in key industries, and support the development of circular industries.

On the morning of January 19, the third session of the 14th People's Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region opened at the Xinjiang People's Hall. Ai'erken Tuniyazi, Chairman of the Autonomous Region, delivered the government work report on behalf of the regional government.

Key tasks are as follows:

Accelerate ecological environment governance and deeply advance the construction of a beautiful Xinjiang.

Vigorously promote green and low-carbon development. Accelerate energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation and equipment updates, promote clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy use, and advance the construction of "waste-free cities" and a batch of zero-carbon parks to high standards. , strengthen urban and industrial sewage recycling, and expand the scale of medium- and long-term green electricity trading. Continue to promote ecosystem protection and restoration. Systematically advance integrated protection and governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts; implement demonstration projects for ecological restoration of abandoned mines; steadily promote the establishment of Kunlun Mountain National Park; afforest 1.2 million mu, improve 4.8 million mu of grassland, control 3 million mu of desertified land, and implement major biodiversity protection projects.