Beijing**Client|Reporter Bai Bo.
Recently, the Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality was issued. At the regular policy briefing held by the State Council Information Office on the afternoon of December 11, Liu Bingjiang, chief engineer of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and director of the Department of Atmospheric Environment, said in response to inquiries that air pollution transmission has no borders, and each country should start from itself to reduce air pollution emissions. My country has actively participated in various bilateral and multilateral environmental cooperation.
A reporter from Taiwan's United Daily asked: The "Action Plan" mentions the need to strengthen international cooperation. In recent years, while the mainland has continued to control air pollution, due to factors such as the northeast monsoon, haze has not only affected the mainland itself, but also affected neighboring parts of Asia. How can we further strengthen regional cooperation in the future to jointly address the problem of improving air pollution?
In response to inquiries, Liu Bingjiang said that there are no national boundaries for the transmission of air pollution, and under certain climatic conditions, air pollution will cross national borders and be transmitted internationally and even intercontinentally. Every country is a victim of air pollution, and each country should start from itself to reduce air pollution emissions, and contribute to the improvement of regional air quality in the process of reducing air pollution emissions.
Liu Bingjiang said that China is the country with the fastest improvement in air pollution, which has contributed to the improvement of regional air quality. In addition, China has actively participated in various bilateral and multilateral environmental cooperation between China and Japan, China and South Korea, China and Japan, and South Korea, Northeast Asia, and East Asia. Since 2019, China and the ROK have started to implement the "Sunny Sky Plan" cooperation project, and the two sides have signed and implemented the "Sunny Sky Plan" Project List and Key Work Arrangements for five consecutive years. The China-Korea Environmental Cooperation Center and the China-Korea Joint Environmental Research Laboratory were launched, building a platform for cooperation in air pollution control between the two sides. Under the framework of the Trilateral Environment Ministers' Meeting of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, the Air Policy Dialogue and the Joint Research Working Group on Sand and Dust Storms have been established, providing a useful platform for the tripartite to carry out atmospheric environmental management and scientific research. South Korea has begun to learn from China's autumn and winter pollution prevention and control practices.