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The Forum on Natural Resources and Ecological Civilization kicked off in Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province on Monday.
Minister of Natural Resources Wang Guanghua said at the forum that through the strict control of sea reclamation, the nation has ensured a natural coastline retention rate of no less than 35 percent.
The ministry has also supported the development of clean energy, such as photovoltaic power and wind power, in an effort to steadily push forward in pursuing the nation's goals of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060, Wang said.
According to the minister, China has organized and implemented an integrated protection and restoration project that covers mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sand, with its total treatment area reaching about 5.33 million hectares in recent years.
At the same time, the country has completed the ecological restoration of about 290,000 hectares of abandoned mines, renovated and restored 2,000 kilometers of coastline, repaired about 40,000 hectares of coastal wetland, and become one of the few countries in the world to see a net increase in its area of mangroves, Wang said.
The area of construction land use per unit of gross domestic product in China had decreased by 18.9 percent in five years by 2022, as the nation has worked to save resources and safeguard its natural ecology, the minister added.
(Cover image via VCG; with input from Xinhua)