Major tasks for 2019: Government Work Report

7. Strengthen pollution prevention and control, enhance ecological improvement, and make big advances in green development.

Workers clean a river in Changxing county, Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua]

Key points:

-- Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions will be cut by 3 percent.

-- Achieve a 2-percent drop in both chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen emissions.