The National Event on the Environment Day 2025 was held in Chongqing this morning (June 5). At the handover ceremony of the event, a relevant official of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced that the National Event on the Environment Day 2026 will be jointly organised by Guangdong Province, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), and the Macao SAR, and handed over the event flag to the government representatives of the three places, namely Vice-Governor of the People's Government of Guangdong Province Mr Zhang Shaokang; the Secretary for Environment and Ecology of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Mr Tse Chin-wan; and the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, Mr Ip Kuong-lam.
      
     In recent years, authorities including MEE and the Central Office of Spiritual Civilization Construction have joined local governments regularly to orgainse the National Event on the Environment Day, which has become an important platform for learning, promoting, and implementing President Xi Jinping's vision of ecological civilisation, showcasing achievements in promoting the development of a beautiful China across the country, and mobilising people from all walks of life to participate in the promotion of ecological civilisation.
      
     Government representatives of the three places expressed at the event that organising the National Event on the Environment Day is the practical implementation and important window of practicing President Xi's vision of ecological civilisation, promoting the development of an international first-class beautiful bay area, and showcasing the landscape of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). Under the guidance of MEE, the three places will learn from the experiences of previous organising cities, engage in effective collaboration with careful planning, and prepare diligently, striving to make the National Event on the Environment Day 2026 excellent and full of character. In addition, the three places will take this opportunity to further deepen communication and co-operation in the ecological and environmental field, jointly build an integrated and innovative beautiful bay area, and provide more concrete ecological support for transforming the GBA into a strategic fulcrum of new development patterns, a demonstration area for high-quality development, and a leading region for Chinese modernisation.

Ends/Thursday, June 5, 2025
Issued at HKT 16:36

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