Ministry of Ecology and Environment Weekly Highlights (11.20-11.26)

1.
Sun Jinlong, Secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, published a signed article in the magazine "Banner" entitled "Leading and Ensuring High-level Protection of the Ecological Environment with the High-quality Development of Party Building in Organs"

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has strengthened the Party's centralized and unified leadership over the construction of ecological civilization, placed the construction of ecological civilization in a prominent position in the overall work, planned to carry out a series of fundamental, pioneering and long-term work, and promoted the construction of a beautiful China to take major steps
。 The Party Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, deeply studies and implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Party Building Work Conference of the Central Committee and State Organs, gives full play to the political guidance and political guarantee role of Party building in organs, focuses on fighting the battle of pollution prevention and control in depth, accelerates the construction of an iron army for ecological environmental protection, and makes unremitting efforts
to build a beautiful China with blue sky and green waters.

2.
Sun Jinlong, Secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Huang Runqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, published a signed article in People's Daily entitled "Earnestly Fulfill the Responsibility of Ecological Environmental Protection and Continuously Open Up a New Situation in the Construction of a Beautiful China in the New Era"

In order to effectively promote relevant functional departments to perform their duties of ecological environmental protection, the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform deliberated and adopted the "Opinions on Promoting Functional Departments to Do a Good Job in Ecological Environmental Protection", which was recently jointly issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the
National Development and Reform Commission 。 The "Opinions" focus on seven aspects, including adhering to and strengthening the party's overall leadership, clarifying the leading departments for specific matters of ecological environmental protection, strengthening the performance of duties and responsibilities in ecological environmental protection, implementing the special reporting system for ecological environmental protection, strengthening the supervision of the implementation of ecological environmental protection work, strengthening supervision and positive incentives for supervision and guidance, and strengthening supervision and guarantee of ecological environmental protection, which will play an important role
in promoting the strict implementation of ecological environmental protection responsibilities and building a beautiful China where man and nature live in harmony.

3.
The Nanchang Annual Meeting of the China Ecological Civilization Forum was held

From November 19 to 20, the annual meeting of the China Ecological Civilization Forum was held
in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
The theme
of this annual meeting is "Ecological Civilization Green Development - Building a Beautiful China in which Man and Nature Live in Harmony".
Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, and Yi Lianhong, Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches
.
Ye Jianchun, Deputy Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Jiangxi Province, attended the opening ceremony
.
Li Hongjun, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Nanchang Municipal Party Committee, attended and delivered a speech
.

4.
Huang Runqiu, President of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and Minister of Ecology and Environment, presided over the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference

On November 24, Huang Runqiu, President of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) and Minister of Ecology and Environment, presided over the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD
) via video.
The meeting further discussed
the fifth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (WG2020) and the progress of preparations for the second phase of COP15.

5.
Xie Zhenhua, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping and China's Special Envoy for Climate Change, and Zhao Yingmin, Head of the Chinese Delegation to COP27 and Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, attended the closing ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh

On the morning of 20 November, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded in Sharm el-Sheikh
, Egypt.
Xie Zhenhua, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping and China's Special Envoy for Climate Change, and Zhao Yingmin, Head of China's Delegation to COP27 and Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, attended the closing ceremony
.

6.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced the ninth batch of typical cases of ecological and environmental law enforcement (automatic monitoring field)

In 2022, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security, will continue to carry out a nationwide special campaign
to deeply crack down on hazardous waste environmental violations and crimes and key pollution discharge automatic monitoring data falsification.
On November 26, 2022, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced seven typical cases
of fraud in automatic monitoring of key pollution.

7.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment will report on the national ambient air quality in October and from January to October

In October, the average proportion of days with good air quality in 339 cities at the prefecture level and above was 91.
8%, down 1.
9 percentage points year-on-year; the average concentration of PM2.
5 was 27 micrograms per cubic meter, up 3.
8%
year-on-year.
From January to October, the average proportion of days with good air quality in 339 cities at the prefecture level and above was 86.
3%, down 1.
3 percentage points year-on-year; the average concentration of PM2.
5 was 27 micrograms per cubic meter, down 3.
6%
year-on-year.