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capita living area of 20.8 square meters.
 We built, renovated, or enlarged more than 6,100 primary and secondary schools
Support
Facilities and kindergartens, over 12,000 hospitals and community health centers, over
3,400 elderly care facilities, and over 40,000 cultural activity venues.
 92% of workers relocated from inhospitable areas secured new employment.
Employment  At least one member in every relocated family with the capacity to work secured
a job.
 We settled more than 5 million people in urban resettlement areas, and the
percentage of people settled in urban areas exceeded 90% in some provinces in
Urban and the southwest.
Rural
Resettlement  We settled 4.6 million people in rural resettlement areas, and a number of
concentrated resettlement areas that have played an exemplary role in promoting
rural revitalization emerged across the country.

2) We achieved the current-stage objectives for pollution prevention and control.
We made steady progress in promoting energy conservation and emissions reduction, and
saw a continued decline in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP.
The share of non-fossil fuels in the total energy consumption reached 15.9%.
We pushed ahead with the campaign to keep our skies blue, our waters clear, and our land
pollution-free. We continued to comprehensively address air pollution in key areas during
autumn and winter, launched initiatives to prevent and control ozone (O3) pollution in summer,
and moved forward with the adoption of clean energy sources for winter heating in northern
China in an active yet prudent manner. We steadily advanced upgrading in the steel industry in
order to achieve ultra-low emissions. We curbed pollution caused by diesel trucks, and
continued to bring about a shift in freight transportation from highways to railways and
waterways. As a result of these efforts, air quality of cities at and above the prefectural level
was good or excellent for 87% of the year.
We accelerated work to improve the quality of key water basins of major rivers and lakes,
including the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, along with water quality in key sea areas such
as the Bohai Sea. We stepped up protection of drinking water sources and the treatment of
black, malodorous water bodies in urban areas. The proportion of surface water with a quality
rating of Grade III or higher stood at 83.4% while the proportion of that lower than Grade V
dropped to 0.6%. As the nationwide water conservation campaign unfolded, water
consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP is estimated to have fallen by 1.9%.
We worked to ensure that cropland and other plots of land that have been polluted are
utilized in a safe manner. We continued to control pollution in agriculture and rural areas and
carried out comprehensive trials for building waste-free cities. We made solid progress in
recycling sewage, addressing plastic pollution, and disposing of medical waste. We stepped up
the building of resource recycling centers and centers for the comprehensive use of massive
solid waste, and essentially achieved the goal of zero solid waste imports. We accelerated the
establishment of a modern environmental governance system, and ensured that the emissions
permit system covers all fixed pollution sources in the country.
We took strong measures to develop national ecological conservation pilot zones. We
strengthened the protection and restoration of ecosystems, moved forward with large-scale

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