Forest cover will take up more than half of the total land area of Guizhou province by the end of 2017, according to a three-year plan by the provincial government.
In July 2013, when President Xi Jinping met with his then Swiss counterpart, Ueli Maurer, in Beijing, Xi said that the natural conditions of China's Guizhou province were similar to those of Switzerland and that he hoped the two could cooperate on ecological and economic development. Today, Switzerland and Guizhou are well on their way to a cooperative partnership.
At the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, China vowed to cut its carbon emissions per GDP by 40 to 45 percent and raise the percentage of its total energy mix supplied by clean energy to 15 percent by 2020.
Around 90 percent of the funds needed to further develop China's environmental industry are expected to come from private sources, requiring a new financial system to encourage more funds into the sector.
The blooming flower season has arrived in Guiyang, capital city of Guizhou province. With millions of budding cherries, magnolia, crabapples, peach flowers and rapeseed flowers on the streets of Guiyang.
