Page 20 - REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2022 PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EVELOPMENT AND ON THE 2023 DRAFT PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EVELOPMENT

The national new urbanization plan for 2021 through 2035 and the
implementation plan for new urbanization during the 14th Five-Year Plan period

were launched. The “1+N” framework of development plans for the
Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone was fully implemented. We moved faster to
coordinate the development of city clusters in the middle reaches of the Yangtze
River, the Beibu Gulf area, and the Guanzhong Plains and ensured that a number
of metropolitan areas saw orderly growth. The guidelines on promoting

urbanization with a focus on county towns were introduced and implemented. We
improved the institutions, mechanisms, and policy systems for promoting
integrated urban-rural development and made continued efforts to extend
infrastructure and public services from cities to villages.

8. We enhanced ecological conservation and made solid progress in promoting green,
circular, and low-carbon development.
We continued the battle against pollution and actively and prudently pushed
ahead toward peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality. We vigorously
promoted resource conservation and accelerated efforts to develop a green

manufacturing system and establish eco-friendly modes of production and ways of
life. This helped consolidate and expand our progress in environmental
governance.
1) The ecological environment saw continuous improvements.
We made greater efforts to keep our skies blue, waters clear, and land

pollution-free. China’s total crude steel capacity that has undergone whole-process,
ultra-low emission retrofitting reached 207 million metric tons. We adopted a
comprehensive approach to tackling volatile organic compounds and intensified
efforts to control mobile source pollution. We redoubled efforts to protect water
ecosystems in key river basins and launched a campaign to improve water quality

in rivers that flow into China’s key seas. Solid progress was made in recycling
waste water. Management over market access was tightened for plots of land
designated for construction on the soil pollution risk management and remediation
list. We launched initiatives to control soil contamination at the source, and

contaminated arable land was more safely utilized.
We carried out work to treat solid waste and new pollutants and redoubled
efforts to address all links of plastic pollution and the problem of excessive
packaging so as to accelerate the building of waste-free cities. We sped up work to
develop the national system of ecological security shields and carried out a number

of major projects for the conservation and restoration of key ecosystems. China’s
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