PM2.5 concentration was 28 micrograms/ cubic meter in urban areas; the proportion of days with good air quality in the urban area was 81.4%. Efforts were redoubled to deepen the reform of "river & lake chief system" and to systematically strengthen the treatment of Taihu Lake and the Grand Canal. For 15 consecutive years, summer has passed safely in Taihu Lake. 630 happy rivers and lakes were built. The water qualification met the standard in the evaluation at national and provincial level. The city took a full range of measure to stop fishing in the Yangtze River and protect the river. " Specific strategy for each individual hill and lake" were initiated to systematically protect the natural landscape and retain the ecological system of water towns in Jiangnan.
The newly added and renovated green space in urban area covers 3.79 million square meters. The number of the newly renovated and built pocket parks was 83. 2300 hectares of forest were completed, 9 provincial-level beautiful villages were built, the forest coverage rate of lands reached 20.5%. There were 5242.95 hectares of new wetland conservation area, the natural wetland conservation rate came to 72.4%.
To date, in the entire year of 2022, 1,270 VOCs treatment project were scheduled to be conducted and 24 chemical manufacturing enterprises were shut down. Over 3,000 lowend and low-efficiency enterprises have been transformed, upgraded, and phased out. The harmless treatment rate of urban domestic garbage was 100%.
The Taihu Lake Eco-Island Agriculture, Culture & Tourism Green Low-Carbon Integrated Development Demonstration Project was selected as a pilot EOD Model by the Ministry of Ecology. Suzhou was selected as a national smart construction pilot city and the China-EU Carbon Neutrality Innovation Cooperation Zone was settled in Taicang.
