A Brief Overview of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the Protection of Ecological Environment

Under the instruction of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, CAEP has been working on the research for the formulation of 13th Five-Year Plan for Protecting the Ecological Environment (the Plan) since 2013. Based on a three-year research and more than a hundred topic-specific studies, the Plan was issued by the State Council on November 24, 2016. Required by the State Council as one of the 22 fundamental sector-specific plans, the targets, main tasks, and action projects of the Plan underlie national environment protection work during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and will be implemented by various responsible departments and governments at all levels. With an introduction to the Plan’s formulation and rationale, this paper provides an overview of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the Protection of Ecological Environment, covering its context, major targets, main tasks, national action projects and the implementation.