Starting from 1997, China municipal government held a forum during the "two sessions" for seven consecutive years to listen to the report on environmental protection work and make arrangements for environmental protection work. China's national leaders believe that environmental protection is a major event to strengthen the country, enrich the people and secure the world, and it is related to national environmental security. The essence of protecting the environment is to protect productive forces. To establish and improve the comprehensive decision-making mechanism of environment and development, local officials should personally take charge of environmental issues. We must strengthen unified environmental supervision, increase environmental investment and encourage public participation. We should put pollution prevention and ecological protection in the same important position. It is necessary to highlight key points and pay close attention to pollution prevention and control in key cities, river basins, regions and sea areas.

In the reform of state institutions, the environmental protection department has been continuously strengthened. 1988 the state environmental protection bureau is independent from the former Ministry of urban and rural construction and environmental protection, and is directly under the the State Council municipality. 1993, upgraded to the bureau directly under the deputy ministerial level. 1998, upgraded to the bureau directly under the Ministry level and renamed the State Environmental Protection Administration.

Environmental protection agencies and organizations

State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)

1998 accord to that plan approved by the first session of the ninth national people's Congress of China and the institutional reform in the State Council, China formally establish the State environmental protection administration (ministerial level). The State Environmental Protection Administration, as the directly affiliated institution in charge of environmental protection in the State Council, is mainly responsible for formulating national environmental protection guidelines, policies and regulations, formulating administrative rules and regulations, and supervising the development and utilization of natural resources, the construction of important ecological environment and the restoration of ecological damage that have an impact on the ecological environment. Its subordinate institutions are local environmental protection bureaus at all levels.

The website of China State Environmental Protection Administration is:

China Committee for International Cooperation in Environment and Development

1992, the government of China approved the establishment of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (GCC). GCC is a high-level international advisory body, and its chairman is the leading comrade of China people and the State Council. The main duties of the GCC are to put forward policy suggestions and carry out policy demonstration and project demonstration on major, urgent and key issues in the field of environment and development in China. GCC members include ministers or deputy ministers of relevant ministries and commissions in the State Council, China, well-known experts and professors in the field of environment and development at home and abroad, ministers from other countries and leaders of international organizations.

The website of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development is: http://www.cciced.org.