On Sunday, the central authorities issued a guideline document on accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of development. According to the document, by 2030, China should have made positive progress in realizing the green transformation in key areas, enhanced the coordination to reduce pollution and carbon emissions, and improved the efficiency with which major resources are used.

Policies and standards to support green development should have been optimized, and remarkable results achieved in the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. By 2035, a green, low-carbon and circular economic system should be in place, with green modes of production formed, and significant progress made in synergies to reduce pollution and carbon emissions. At the same time, the country's utilization efficiency of major resources should have reached an internationally advanced level, and its economic and social development should be on a green and low-carbon track, with carbon emissions being on a steady decline after peaking.

To facilitate the advancement of these goals, the document rolls out a series of measures and requirements, including optimizing the development pattern of China's territorial space, improving the mechanism for ecological and environmental protection to forge green development highlands, accelerating green and low-carbon transformation of industries, energy, transportation, urban and rural construction, and consumption. The country will give full play to the role of scientific and technological innovation in this process and strengthen applied basic research and accelerate research and development of key technologies.

Green and low-carbon development remains a leading direction of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in today's world, and the realization of the green economy has become an irreversible development trend. It has also remained a major source of China's high-quality development and international competitiveness.

China has so far built the world's largest, most complete and competitive clean energy industry chain, with its solar power and wind power installed capacity reaching more than 1.1 billion kilowatts, new energy vehicle production and sales ranking first in the world for nine consecutive years, and the proportion of new green buildings in urban areas accounting for more than 90 percent of new buildings.

As the world's second largest economy, China's efforts will be a great contribution to global sustainable development.