The Ministry of Environmental Protection announced to the media that the theme of Environment Day 2016 is "Improving environmental quality and promoting green development", which aims to mobilize and guide all sectors of society to practice the concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature and green development, start from the small things around, jointly fulfill environmental responsibility, care for environmental quality and build a beautiful home.
The main considerations for this theme are: to demonstrate the CPC Central Committee and The State Council's firm determination to improve environmental quality and promote green development, and to effectively coordinate with the overall deployment of environmental protection work in the 13th Five-Year Plan period, which focuses on improving environmental quality; Highlighting core environmental protection work that focuses on strengthening supervision and law enforcement of environmental protection, taking effective measures to solve prominent environmental problems, and promoting new breakthroughs in green development; Actively respond to the concerns and expectations of the people on environmental issues, and enhance the confidence of the whole society in improving environmental quality; Release and convey the message of improving environmental quality and building a beautiful China that everyone shares and is responsible for, arouse the whole society's lasting enthusiasm for environmental protection, and advocate the whole society to work together and take an active part in the campaign to improve environmental quality and make every effort to strengthen the weak links in ecological and environmental protection. And echoes the world theme from the perspective of active participation in protecting ecosystems. The theme of this year's World Environment Day is to fight the illegal wildlife trade, and the slogan is "A cry for life".
During the Environment Day, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will hold a series of commemorative activities to publicize the Environment Day. It will launch a series of public service advertisements and wall charts designed and produced around the theme of Environment Day and ecological civilization construction, and hold a series of publicity activities themed on Environment Day. Around the theme of Environment Day, various publicity and commemoration activities will be carried out in light of actual conditions in order to build a broad social consensus and create a favorable atmosphere for the whole society to participate in ecological civilization construction, improve environmental quality and promote green development.
