Environmental protection is one of China's basic state policies. In the next five to ten years, it will be an important period for China's economic and social development, a crucial time for strategic adjustment of the economic structure and reform and opening up, as well as a critical period for reducing environmental pollution and curbing the trend of ecological deterioration. Firmly seizing the historical opportunities of the new century, making great efforts to solve the prominent environmental problems across the country, promoting the coordinated development of economy, society, and environment, and implementing the sustainable development strategy, are important and arduous tasks for environmental protection work from the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period to 2010.
I. Completion status of the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" environmental protection plan and the current environmental situation
(1) Main progress in environmental protection work during the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" period
(2) Current environmental situation in China
II. Guiding ideology and objectives