Ministry of Ecology and Environment: Accelerate the promotion of scientific and technological innovation in the field of ecological environment and promote the construction of a modern ecological environment monitoring system.

Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a conference on national ecological environment protection work in 2026, systematically summarizing the work of ecological environment protection in 2025 and the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", thoroughly analyzing the situation and challenges faced, researching and planning the work of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan", and arranging the key tasks for 2026. In 2026, the ecological environment department will focus on seven key tasks: firstly, coordinating the promotion of the construction of a beautiful China, formulating and implementing the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" in the ecological environment field, and promoting the construction of a beautiful China in a hierarchical and classified manner. Secondly, continue to deepen the pollution prevention and control campaign and optimize the ecological system, intensively fight for the defense of blue skies, clear waters, and clean land, strengthen comprehensive management of solid waste, strengthen the treatment of new pollutants, and enhance ecological protection and restoration supervision. Thirdly, focus on enhancing the green development momentum, promoting the development of green productivity, focusing on the creation of green development highlands in key regions, and actively responding to climate change. Fourthly, focus on promoting ecological environment protection inspection, comprehensively strengthen ecological environment intelligent law enforcement supervision. Fifthly, accelerate the advancement of technological innovation in the ecological environment field, and promote the construction of a modern ecological environment monitoring system. Sixth, effectively safeguard the security foundation of the construction of a beautiful China, strengthen ecological security risk prevention, and ensure nuclear and radiation safety. Seventh, accelerate the improvement of the modern environmental governance system, improve laws and regulations policies, continue to promote nationwide action, deepen international exchanges and cooperation, and continuously strengthen team building.