On December 26, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a regular press conference for December. Zhao Shixin, director of the Department of Soil Ecology and Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, explained that since the “14th Five-Year Plan”, the pure land defense war and agricultural and rural pollution control campaign have achieved remarkable results. First, there have been fundamental changes in soil environmental quality across the country, and risks have been effectively controlled. Complete major soil pollution source control projects, promote traceability and remediation of heavy metal pollution in agricultural land throughout the county, carry out agricultural land classification management, and strengthen soil pollution risk management for construction land. Second, the overall environmental quality of groundwater remains stable, which strongly curbs the trend of increasing pollution. Key supervisory units were organized to investigate and rectify hidden hazards, and the environmental quality of groundwater at state-controlled sites was generally stable. Third, the rural ecological environment has improved markedly, and the construction of beautiful villages is progressing further. It has exceeded the tasks of comprehensive rural environmental remediation and rural domestic sewage treatment, and has basically eliminated large areas of rural black and smelly water bodies.

On December 26, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a regular press conference for December. Zhao Shixin, director of the Department of Soil Ecology and Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, explained that since the “14th Five-Year Plan”, the pure land defense war and agricultural and rural pollution control campaign have achieved remarkable results. First, there have been fundamental changes in soil environmental quality across the country, and risks have been effectively controlled. Complete major soil pollution source control projects, promote traceability and remediation of heavy metal pollution in agricultural land throughout the county, carry out agricultural land classification management, and strengthen soil pollution risk management for construction land. Second, the overall environmental quality of groundwater remains stable, which strongly curbs the trend of increasing pollution. Key supervisory units were organized to investigate and rectify hidden hazards, and the environmental quality of groundwater at state-controlled sites was generally stable. Third, the rural ecological environment has improved markedly, and the construction of beautiful villages is progressing further. It has exceeded the tasks of comprehensive rural environmental remediation and rural domestic sewage treatment, and has basically eliminated large areas of rural black and smelly water bodies.