BEAUTIFUL CHINA IN NUMBERS

According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China has made steady progress in protecting the ecology and environment. Although quite a few difficulties and challenges remain, China is moving in the right direction on pollution control.

The national conference on environmental protection held on May 18 and 19, 2018 in Beijing outlined China's toughest measures yet against air, water and soil pollution. To achieve this goal, the Chinese government has taken specific measures including China's Environmental Protection Tax Law that took effect in 2018. The environmental tax was China's first tax clearly designed for environmental protection. Moreover, China began to enact the newly revised Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law in 2018, which includes expanding the river chief system to cover the entire country after a successful regional pilot program.

Air Quality

First half of 2019, of 337 Chinese cities at and above the prefecture-level

Days with good air quality: 80.1%, up 0.4% PM2.5 concentration down by 2.4%SO2 concentration down by 14.3%

Days with good air quality: 62.4%, up 2.7%PM2.5 concentration down 13.2%

Freshwater

During the first six months of 2019 74.5% surface water sections (sites) with fairly good quality 4.3% surface water sections (sites) failed to meet the lowest level

Marine Environment

In 2018, marine areas meeting the highest standards rose to 96.3% of total marine area under jurisdiction of PRC, and marine area failing to meet the lowest level accounted for 1.1%.

Climate Change

Precipitation National average precipitation was 673.8 mm (26.52 inches) in 2018 up 3.9% on 2017

Air temperature

10.09°C

0.54°C

In 2018, the national average air temperature was 10.09°C (50.16°F)0.54°C higher than historical average

CO2emissions per GDP has dropped 4.0% on 2017 down 45.8% compared to 2005

Infrastructure and Energy

Urban sewage

Urban sewage treatment capacity reached 167 million m³/day Cumulative sewage treatment volume reached 51.9 billion m³

Municipal solid waste

Decontamination capacity of municipal solid waste is 720,000 tons/day Decontamination rate reached 98.2%

Energy

Total consumption of energy across the country was equivalent to 4.64 billion tons of standard coal up 3.3% on 2017

Energy consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP dropped 3.1% on 2017

Natural Ecosystem

98,317

In terms of biodiversity,98,317 species and

subspecies have been discovered in China.

In terms of ecological diversity, China hosts every type of terrestrial ecosystem found on Earth.