The 2022 World Environment Day Hunan celebration was held in Chenzhou City on the morning of June 5, 2022. Li Jianzhong, vice governor of Hunan Province, attended and delivered a speech.

World Environment Day is the biggest international day for the environment. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and held annually since 1973, it has grown to be the largest global platform for environmental outreach. It is celebrated by millions of people across the world. “Only One Earth” is the campaign slogan, with the focus on “Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature” this year. The Hunan celebration aims to build a beautiful China and an amazing Hunan, and let the people share the fruits of ecological civilization. The list of Hunan's exemplary cases for building beautiful rivers and lakes, the “Top 10 typical cases for rectification of prominent ecological and environmental problems in Hunan Province, the 4th “Hunan’s Most Beautiful Grassroots Ecological Environmental Protection Figures”, and “Hunan’s Moral Model - Most Beautiful Ecological Environment Protectors” were announced at the event.

Vice Governor Li emphasized that it is necessary to:

- Bear in mind President Xi Jinping’s ardent entrustment to “protecting the Yangtze River”, resolutely shoulder the political responsibility of ecological civilization construction, prioritize eco-environmental protection and green and low-carbon way of life, strengthen and carry forward the sense of responsibility and mission, and coordinate economic development and ecological civilization construction;

- Intensify environmental governance and restoration, and continuously improve the quality of the ecological environment;

- Make good use of the “Summer Campaign” on pollution prevention and control and the “Sword Action” of preventing and resolving major ecological and environmental risks, to keep the skies blue, waters clear, and land pollution-free.

- Comprehensively strengthen legal protection, improve environmental and economic policies, and continuously increase the enthusiasm of market entities and the public to participate in ecological environmental protection; and,

- Carry out the spirit of the 12^th CPC Hunan Provincial Congress effectively as planned, pursue a path of green, low-carbon, recyclable and sustainable development, build the whole province into a beautiful eco-friendly garden, and create a clean and beautiful world where people are living sustainably in harmony with nature.