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(…) China has made positive contributions to the development of South-South cooperation, to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

China has fully realized that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and focused on pollution prevention and control with unprecedented determination and efforts to strengthen ecological and environmental protection. Forceful measures have been taken to tackle air pollution. Encouraging progress has been made in establishing a national market for the trading of carbon emission rights. Energy conservation and emission reduction in key industries have continued to make progress, and energy structures further optimized. China has strengthened the prevention and control of water pollution in key river basins and sea areas, and implemented major ecological protection and restoration projects. From 2013 to 2017, 71% of all the coal-fired power generating units in China achieved ultra-low emissions, and the proportion of coal consumption dropped by 8.1 percentage points, while that of clean energy consumption up by 6.3 percentage points.

China implements a coordinated regional development strategy, speeding up the development of old revolutionary base areas, areas with large ethnic minority populations, border areas and poor areas, continuing to advance the large-scale development of the western region, accelerating the revitalization of old industrial bases in the northeast and other parts of the country, promoting the central region to rise by tapping into local strengths, and supporting the eastern region to take the lead in pursuing optimal development. (...) China will facilitate the development of the Yangtze Economic Belt by promoting well-coordinated environmental conservation and avoiding excessive development. (...)

(...) Agricultural support policies and measures will continue to be improved to form a mechanism containing both incentives and restraints which is green-oriented and promotes the rational use of agricultural resources and protection of ecological environment.

(…) China will accelerate the efforts to turn itself into an innovative country, deepen reforms in fundamental key areas, and take tough steps to (…) prevent and control pollution.

The Catalogue of Industries for the Guidance of Foreign Investment (Investment Catalogue), which is revised periodically, remains the main instrument used to guide FDI in China. (…) The 2017 revision of the Catalogue encourages FDI in, inter alia, (…) the energy saving and environmental protection industry, (...)

(…) A consumption tax is levied on: products that are harmful to human health, social order and the environment; (…) high-energy consumption (...) and non-renewable and non-replaceable petroleum products. Tax rates continue to vary considerably depending upon the product; they can be ad valorem, specific or compound. (...)

(…) Since January 2018, China prohibits the importation of 24 kinds of solid waste.

China submitted to the WTO a number of notifications on its subsidies up to 2014. However, for most projects no information was provided on the total subsidy amount and no subsidies were notified for the period between 2015 and 2017. Furthermore, the authorities did not provide any information on subsidies that went beyond their notified programmes. Information available from other sources indicates that China has continued to provide substantial support for, (...) new energy vehicles (...)

(...) China's policy based on environmental and overcapacity considerations has been implemented to reduce that share. The short-term objectives are that by 2020: the proportion of non-fossil energies in total primary energy consumption should be around 15%; the proportion of natural gas consumption should reach 10%; and the carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP should decrease by 40%-45% compared to 2005.