Recently, a batch of major ecological environment restoration and governance projects have been launched successively across China.

　　Implementing the "Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality" is a key component of this year's battle against air pollution. Since the beginning of this year, a number of air pollution prevention and control projects supported by central government funds have started construction, with a focus on advancing ultra-low emission retrofits in key industries such as steel, cement, and coking.

　　In Guangxi, civil construction has begun on the desulfurization and denitrification retrofit of this steel enterprise. Once the project is completed, it will significantly reduce pollutants generated in the gas-fired power generation process, achieving ultra-low emission levels.

　　This year, the ecological protection and restoration project in the Yangtze River Basin is advancing from the main stream to tributaries and inland lakes. Anhui Province has successively carried out systematic governance and restoration of 84 inland lakes that flow into the Yangtze River. Through measures such as ecological dredging, restoration of aquatic vegetation, and stocking of filter-feeding fish, the quality of the water environment entering the Yangtze River will be further improved.

　　The "Jizi Bend" of the Yellow River is an important sand source area and pathway affecting sandstorms in the Beijing-Tianjin region and eastern areas. This year, the five provinces and regions of Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Shanxi are deeply implementing the integrated protection and restoration project of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts. Jungar Banner in Inner Mongolia has invested another 165 million yuan this year to push into the area concentrating the coarsest sediment sources of the Yellow River, which is the most difficult to govern. It is building 79 sediment retention dams, excavating horizontal trenches and fish-scale pits, and planting trees and shrubs to conserve soil and water, create a micro-basin climate, and reduce sediment transport to the downstream Yellow River.

　　Liu Jun, Senior Engineer at the Water Conservancy Development Center of Jungar Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: We are seizing the opportunity of high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, hoping that through governance, some of the more difficult-to-govern areas will be gradually improved.

　　This year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment organized the implementation of a batch of major scientific and technological projects to tackle key problems, accelerating breakthroughs in major bottlenecks constraining applied research. In Shenzhen, mobile monitoring vehicles collect real-time urban road condition information, and researchers, through a set of domestically pioneered panoramic AI recognition algorithm models, can calculate the carbon emission intensity of different vehicles, buildings, and other objects on the road. As this algorithm model continues to be trained and matures, it will be able to replace on-site carbon emission monitoring in the future.

　　In 2024, the central government has allocated nearly 200 billion yuan to support ecological civilization construction, with the scale of funds increasing steadily compared with last year, providing strong guarantees for comprehensively advancing the building of a Beautiful China.