According to a report released by the global environmental organization Greenpeace, the U.S.-based retail giant Wal-Mart has been selling genetically modified rice in China.

Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission has approved the construction of seven wetland protection and restoration projects in the Dongtinghu Lake area.

The agricultural departments of six provinces in central China have jointly signed an agreement on the quality and safety of farm products, and they will also set up a mechanism to mutually report the on supervision of agricultural products to determine the root cause of substandard products.

The Wuhan water ecosystem protection and restoration pilot program has just passed acceptance by the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China and Hubei provincial government — making Wuhan the first city in China to have achieved this level.

It is learned from Gov.cn, the official web portal of the Central People's Government of China, that China has approved 16 new nature reserves.

More than 30 people in Hunan have been detained for smoking in "dangerous" public places.

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.