
A |

"Building an ecological civilization concerns the well-being of the people and the future of the nation."
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, once pointed out: "Respecting, adapting to, and protecting nature is essential for building China into a modern socialist country in all respects."
In the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) for national economic and social development, securing major breakthroughs in strategic tasks of overall importance to Chinese modernization and making major new progress in the Beautiful China Initiative are key objectives.
The Global Times is launching a series of articles titled "BeautifulChinaING." From the perspectives of the beauty of nature, the beauty of systems and the beauty of lifestyles, the series uses both Chinese and international cases as entry points. Through field reporting and video storytelling, it explores how green development has become a defining feature of Chinese modernization while showcasing China's role as a responsible major country providing global public goods.
In this installment, we turn our focus to China's Ecological and Environmental Code and the changes it may bring to everyday life. From neighborhood noise and restaurant fumes to ecological conservation and green development, this article examines how the code brings scattered environmental rules into a unified framework, strengthens public participation and turns the vision of a Beautiful China into concrete rules for environmental governance.
A power drill starts in a neighboring apartment just as someone is trying to sleep. Cooking fumes from the restaurant downstairs drift through an open window. A modified car roars past a residential compound, while a food delivery arrives wrapped in layers of plastic. According to China's new Ecological and Environmental Code, these seemingly minor, everyday frictions - closely tied to how people live, sleep, cook, commute and consume - are precisely where environmental governance begins.
The code will take effect on Saturday. Spanning 1,242 articles across five books, it is China's second law to be formally titled a "code," following the Civil Code. It brings pollution control, ecological conservation and green and low-carbon development under one legal framework, while incorporating 10 existing laws.
Speaking at a press conference held on Thursday, Minister of Ecology and Environment Li Gao said that the Ecological and Environmental Code is of major and far-reaching significance for safeguarding the public's ecological and environmental rights and interests in accordance with the law, consolidating the legal foundation for building a Beautiful China, and accelerating modernization characterized by harmony between humanity and nature.
As China puts the vast environmental code into force, a practical question arises: How will it make daily life quieter, cleaner and easier to navigate - and turn the vision of a Beautiful China into rules that people can see, use and help enforce?
From doorsteps to ecosystems
In Mengla county, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, elephant ranger Li Shengqian once walked through a large area of flattened cornfields. While local rangers were attending training, more than 40 wild Asian elephants descended from the mountains, ate the ripe sweet corn, rolled in a mineral-rich pond and then retreated into the forest to sleep.
A local forestry official told the Global Times that an insurance company would assess the damage and compensate the villagers.
Yunnan has gradually turned such compensation from an improvised response into an institutional arrangement. Under its wildlife-damage public liability insurance system, governments pay the premiums, affected farmers do not contribute, and insurers assess and compensate their losses.
By August 2024, Xishuangbanna had invested 225 million yuan ($33.3 million) in the scheme and paid 215 million yuan in compensation for wildlife damage, including 188 million yuan for losses caused by Asian elephants.
The code gives such practices a clearer legal foundation. Article 828 requires local governments in areas seriously affected by wildlife damage to combine compensation with preventive measures, including protective barriers, warning signs and monitoring and early-warning systems. It also stipulates compensation for deaths, injuries and losses to crops or other property resulting from the protection of specified wildlife. In this way, the cost of conservation is not left solely to those living closest to protected animals.
For environmental volunteers, the change may be felt in a different way. Yun Jianli founded the Green Hanjiang environmental group in Central China's Hubei Province in 2002 and has spent more than two decades investigating pollution along the Hanjiang River.
Yun said volunteers previously often had difficulty dealing with legal matters. "When dealing with some environmental issues, we often had to search across different laws to find a legal basis," she told the Global Times. "The new code integrates these systems, providing clearer and more authoritative legal support for environmental actions."
That support extends beyond a general recognition of participation. The code requires public consultations in environmental planning, standard-setting and impact assessments; mandates accessible reporting channels and feedback for real-name reports; and prohibits employers from retaliating against workers who report pollution by their own organizations.
For volunteers such as Yun, public participation is therefore no longer only an appeal to civic responsibility. It is positioned as a legally protected part of environmental governance.
After Saturday, the code's practical effect will be tested in equally concrete ways.
From blueprint to reality
Turning this wide breadth of laws into a single code requires more than collecting existing statutes. Lawmakers first had to decide which rules should be fully integrated, which specialized laws should remain in place and where new legal foundations were needed.
Compilation formally began on November 3, 2023. A leadership group coordinated major issues, a drafting task force handled the text, and an expert committee provided specialist input. The draft was reviewed twice as a whole and twice in separate books before it was adopted on March 12, 2026, completing a process of nearly two and a half years.
The approach was described as "moderate codification." Huang Wei, a deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee and coordinator of the drafting task force, told the People's Daily that the aim was not to absorb every environmental law into one volume. Instead, different groups of laws were treated differently.
Ten laws covering environmental protection, environmental impact assessment, cleaner production and major forms of pollution control were revised and incorporated in full, and will no longer remain as separate statutes once the code takes effect. Core provisions from more than 20 other laws involving forests, grasslands, major river basins, national parks, energy and resource conservation were included while those laws were retained. For newer fields such as climate governance and the carbon-peaking and carbon-neutrality goals, the code establishes guiding principles while leaving room for more detailed legislation.
The code was also shaped outside meeting rooms in Beijing. In May 2025, Chinese and international students at a vocational university in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality discussed the draft, with their suggestions sent to the national legislature through a grassroots legislative contact point, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, also took part in seminars organized by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee and other departments during the code's drafting. His organization later submitted detailed proposals when the draft was released for public comment, he told the Global Times.
"The open legislative process was significant in itself, as it prompted broad public discussion of decades of environmental legislation and the major issues of our time," Ma said. "It has enabled the code to engage with cutting-edge international legislative theories while remaining grounded in the practical challenges China faces," Ma said.
During the four rounds of public consultation, more than 7,000 people participated and submitted over 20,000 comments. The drafting team conducted research in more than 30 localities and held 17 seminars in Beijing with national legislators, government departments, companies, social organizations and scholars, the People's Daily reported.
Suggestions from the public and grassroots contact points helped shape rules on emerging pollutants, urban greening, climate governance and legal liability. Following deliberations at the final NPC session, more than 200 additional changes were made, including over 100 substantive revisions, Xinhua reported.
Passing the code, however, did not automatically align the many rules beneath it. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment said it was reviewing more than 500 related documents, including over 30 administrative regulations, more than 80 departmental rules and over 400 normative documents. Provisions that conflict with, fail to connect with or no longer fit the code will be revised or repealed, while supporting rules and technical standards are being updated.
Innovative tools have also been used in preparation for the code's implementation. An AI-assisted system has been developed to address the difficulties and high costs involved in assessing ecological and environmental damage. The system has been piloted free of charge in 28 provincial-level regions and applied in more than 300 cases, reducing average assessment time by over 80 percent, according to the ministry.
Wider legal practice
Environmental codification is not unique to China. Sweden adopted its Environmental Code in 1998 and brought together rules previously contained in 15 acts. It then entered into force on January 1, 1999. France issued the legislative part of its Environmental Code in September 2000. Germany also attempted to establish a unified environmental code, but the project stalled in 2009.
In terms of the Ecological and Environmental Code of China, an article published in the international journal Carbon Research described it as a systemic response to the interconnected crises of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change, while also identifying incomplete supporting rules, uneven legal coordination and limited public awareness as implementation challenges.
An editorial by the People's Daily published on Thursday noted that the enactment of the Ecological and Environmental Code signifies a major transformation in China from a participant to a leader in global environmental governance, providing a legislative model that can be studied by countries around the world, especially developing countries.
Lu Weifu, a researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China, wrote in an article published by China Environment News that the code's distinctive feature lies in combining systematic integration with an open structure. Unlike environmental codes primarily shaped around conventional pollution control, China's code places pollution prevention, ecological conservation and green and low-carbon development within the same framework. Its separate book on green and low-carbon development also brings climate change and economic transformation into the core structure of environmental law.
Ma said that conventional air-pollution control and climate governance had long operated in relatively separate legal systems. By connecting the control of conventional pollutants with reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, he said, the code could support more coordinated regulation and reduce duplicated systems and administrative work.
The larger shift is from dealing with environmental harm only after it occurs to addressing how energy, industry and consumption generate that harm in the first place, he said.


B | 对阵马竞,进球;对阵巴黎,梅开二度。两场重头戏,喀麦隆人用7次射正、3粒进球,蝉联全场最佳。当记者问他更喜欢边锋还是中锋,他的回答带着狡黠的坦白:“我倾向边路,但喜欢担任前锋。

C | ”——言下之意,位置不重要,进球才重要。 主帅卡里克毫不掩饰自己的选择:“姆伯莫准备好了。”这并非一时兴起,上赛季舍什科伤停时,他客串中锋8场攻入3球,早已证明自己不是“临时工”。 一个“执念”驱动的逆袭者 “我喜欢进球”——这不是口号,是姆伯莫的生存法则。在布伦特福德时,他专门找伊万·托尼讨教射门;上赛季42场英超20球,是对“天道酬勤”最踏实的注解。加盟曼联处子季,他便与舍什科共享队内金靴,更成为自范佩西之后,首位处子赛季就连破阿森纳、曼城、利物浦的曼联球员。 这份“豪门杀手”的底色,让他在遭遇11场进球荒时仍被球迷偏爱。他自己看得透彻:“压力越大的比赛,越能检验我。”当年被视为“水货”、“反击型工具人”的质疑,早被他用一脚脚射门碾碎。 从破烂公园到老特拉福德,他一直都在“抢” 6岁在破败公园踢球,11岁独自坐3小时车去试训,14岁寄宿足球学校——姆伯莫的每一步都是“抢”来的机会。19岁踢法乙、20岁踢英冠,在别人眼里是“大器晚成”,他却说:“没有人把现成送到我手里。

D | ” 如今,他在曼联锋线同样面临“抢”位——舍什科更高、更年轻、身价更贵,但姆伯莫从不回避竞争。他甚至在季前赛主动开发新技能:“我需要变化,传中或者后撤。

E | ”一个会下棋、能自学弹琴的“猛张飞”,在足球场上同样懂得用脑子解题。 图片来源于新球体育 新赛季,不是“二选一”,而是“1+1” 舍什科归来后,曼联锋线注定要磨合。

F | 但姆伯莫的态度很清晰:不是抢饭碗,是比昨天的自己更好。他说过,童年第一件球衣就是曼联7号,那是罗纳尔多的号码——如今他穿着19号,却一样在努力成为老特拉福德的新宠。 或许“为曼联争英超”的呐喊仍被外界视为天真,但姆伯莫习惯了在孤独中向上爬。季前赛的三粒进球只是一个注脚,真正的故事,才刚翻开第一章。
Current article:http://uckqxr.cheshenzhuaduanza.buzz/news/20260826_91171.html
Published on:14:19:55
下一篇:华为将发布新一代三折叠 上一篇:向新向优 加快建设现代产业之城
1
王川小米出现在苏宁,就彩电、空调等方面的深入合作进行了探讨。2
NBA官宣完整赛程!10大球星回归战敲定 4队拥有最多全美直播场次3
“黑马”黄循财:“从没想过将来会出任总理”4
守护生命早期营养!英氏控股携手央视网《时代的托举》诠释育儿时代进阶5
喜讯!华新1907文化公园纳入国家4A级景区创建名单6
'पत्रकारों की हत्या चौंकाने वाली', गाजा के अस्पताल में हमले के बाद आया भारत का रिएक्शन7
连日来持续降雨 厦门“菜篮子” 量足价稳8
连山区第三例捐献造血干细胞志愿者赴沈9
157次提交假病历骗津贴 医生坐牢7个月10
半年出手5次,美国国资到底投了啥?11
Major water main break impacts thousands in a New York county12
张帅温网女双不失一盘四连胜 生涯四进大满贯四强13
提升公路属性 福特F-150 Lobo套件版官图发布 战斗氛围拉满14
理想汽车2025年Q1财报:现金储备达1107亿元/理想i8将于7月上市15
全球出生率快速下滑,人口“冬天”即将到来?1
传大众汽车集团考虑出售俄罗斯工厂2
保育保健||预防甲流,守护健康——预防甲流知识宣传3
世体:巴萨将比西武纳入一线队计划,目前他正随B队训练4
小米公司发言人:近期,多起使用 AI 技术造谣我司的案件被警方侦破5
疫情通报:过去一周新西兰新增3399例6
霍里:这是哈登最后一份合同了 但骑士目前的阵容无法帮他夺冠7
新加坡本科留学:高一高二申请,还是高三毕业后?8
普京:“不抛弃自己人,是俄罗斯的强国之本”9
《RuneScape: Dragonwilds》确认首日加入 Xbox Game Pass10
코빗 이어 코인원도 ‘수수료 0원’ 승부수…업비트·빗썸 아성 흔들까11
来烟台想尝本地特色风味 怎么选合适的海鲜餐厅12
传承文化 情暖冬至——郑州市中原区保利百合幼儿园开展冬至主题活动13
受台风“梅花”外围影响 山东青岛局部将降大暴雨14
2026年A股剧烈震荡,散户为何越套越深?基金投顾的3个核心价值15
Mewat Crime: क्राइम ब्रांच ने नशा तस्कर को दबोचा, 15.15 ग्राम हेरोइन बरामदCopyright @ 2016-2017 我的网站 版权所有