Cleanup campaign brings numerous benefits

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Since 2013, the Jiangsu Department of Ecology and Environment has allocated about 15 billion yuan for cities to protect the environment, and for ecological restoration work.

The department has completed a biodiversity survey of 80 percent of Jiangsu's counties — recording a total of 6,903 animal and plant species, including 94 listed under national key wildlife protection measures.

In recent years, the authorities in Jiangsu have released details of more than 23,000 environmental protection cases, detained about 5,800 suspects, and issued 85,000 administrative punishment decisions, with fines totaling more than 7.6 billion yuan.

High technology and new energy enterprises have been welcomed in Jiangsu to reduce energy consumption and carbon intensity.

For example, 26 offshore wind farms had been established in Nantong by the end of last year, with a total installed capacity of 5.98 million kilowatts and a cumulative power generation of 14.78 billion kilowatt-hours.

Qian Tizhi, deputy general manager of Nantong Yangkou Huangang Investment and Development Co, said the city's wind power industrial park has attracted many new energy manufacturing industries, such as those specializing in wind, lithium and photovoltaic power.

"Their products can be shipped easily to other places, as the production bases are only a few kilometers from the port. As a result, abundant offshore wind resources can be quickly integrated into the grid," he said.

Before Xiaoyangkou Wind Power Port was launched at the start of 2017, transporting wind turbine blades was hard work, as a single blade could be as long as 110 meters and weigh as much as 45 metric tons.

As the nation's first dedicated port for wind power, it has shortened the delivery time for such blades from Nantong to neighboring cities from one week to a few hours.

This year, Jiangsu's energy consumption per unit of GDP has fallen by 36.8 percent compared with 2013, while the province's carbon intensity has declined by 41.5 percent, data from the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee's research office show.