Xi urges efforts to build beautiful China

Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, makes a speech and reads Chinese President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter during the opening ceremony of the National Event on the Environment Day held in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, June 5, 2022. Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a congratulatory letter on Sunday to the Environment Day event. [Xinhua/Li Tao]

Han Zheng, Chinese Vice Premier and a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the opening ceremony of the Environment Day event and made a speech.

Han urged efforts to deepen the overall green transformation and promote coordinated progress on environmental protection and economic development.

China will push for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in a prudent and orderly way and in the process, guarantee the security of energy, industrial and supply chains, and food, as well as people's normal lives, he said.

Han also stressed joint efforts on global ecological progress and sustainable development to benefit people all over the world.

China has held the national event to celebrate the Environment Day each year since 2017, with this year's event themed "Work Together to Build a Clean and Beautiful World."

Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visits an exhibition before attending the opening ceremony of the National Event on the Environment Day held in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, June 5, 2022. Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a congratulatory letter on Sunday to the Environment Day event. Han Zheng made a speech and read Xi's congratulatory letter during the opening ceremony of the event. [Xinhua/Li Tao]