BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) — With a draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan under examination and discussion by China’s top legislature and political advisory body at their ongoing annual sessions, the new development roadmap is set to shape the country’s pathways toward a modernization that stands out in how it interacts with nature.
The 2026-2030 period marks a critical stage for China in its quest to basically achieve socialist modernization by 2035, with harmony between humanity and nature standing as a distinctive feature of Chinese modernization.
The 14th National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, opened its fourth session on March 5, 2026, to which a draft environmental code was submitted for deliberation.
Once adopted, it will become China’s second formal statutory code, after the Civil Code, which was adopted in 2020.
The latest legislative move comes amid China’s historic gains in ecological conservation over the past decade or so. Championing green development, the country has recorded the world’s fastest growth in forest resources and afforestation, led globally in renewable energy development, and achieved one of the fastest national reductions in energy intensity worldwide.
In China, the world’s largest electricity consumer, one in every three kilowatt-hours of electricity comes from green energy sources, powering daily life, while reshaping the national and global energy and industrial landscapes, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA).
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