News from Hubei provincial environment department is that a general plan has been worked out for the ecological construction and environmental protection of a city cluster and more than CNY500 billion will be invested to build this eco-city cluster, which is to be centered on Wuhan.

Li Yuan, the deputy director of the Ecological Division of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, has disclosed to local media that China will arrange a CNY1 billion special fund this year for environment protection and pollution control in the rural areas of the country.

The latest "Green GDP Index Report for 300 Chinese Municipalities" shows that China's average Green GDP index in 2009 is 0.1151, an increase of 9.41% over that of 2008.

Du Ying, the deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, disclosed at a recent seminar that China will enhance the pilot program for the ecological environment compensation mechanism, in selected regions.

Maqu, a small town lying on the border of the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan, is implementing a national ecology protection project — ecological migration — to protect the Yellow River.

A document titled "Study on the Regional Difference of Ecological Civilization in China", which is said to be the first rating on the ecological civilization of Chinese provinces and cities since the term 'ecological civilization construction' was put forward, has been formally published.

At a regular meeting presided over by Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, it was decided that climate change would be included into China's national economic and social development plan.