H. Enhancing Overall Climate Resilience

- To improve safe operation of infrastructure of water conservancy, transport and energy against climate change;

- To properly develop and optimize the allocation of water resources, implementing the strictest water management regulation, building water-saving society in all aspects and intensifying the development and utilization of unconventional water resources, including recycled water, desalinated sea water and rain and flood water;

- To improve the construction of water conservation facilities for farmlands, to vigorously develop water-saving agricultural irrigation and to cultivate heat-resistant and drought-resistant crops;

- To enhance resistance to marine disasters and management of coastal zones and to improve the resilience of coastal areas against climatic disasters;

- To track, monitor and assess the impact of climate change on biodiversity;

- To strengthen the construction of forestry infrastructure;

- To properly lay out functional zones in cities, to make overall arrangements in developing infrastructure and to effectively safeguard city lifeline system;

- To formulate contingency plan for public health under the impacts of climate change and to improve the capacity of public medical services to adapt to climate change;

- To strengthen comprehensive assessment and risk management of climate change and to improve the national monitoring, early warning and communication system on climate change;

- To take full consideration of climate change in the planning, engineering and construction of the distribution of productive forces, infrastructures and major projects;

- To improve the emergency response mechanism for extreme weather and climatic events; and

- To strengthen the development of disaster reduction and relief management system.

I. Innovating Low-Carbon Development Growth Pattern

- To advance low-carbon pilots in provinces and cities;

- To conduct low-carbon cities (towns) pilots as well as low-carbon industrial parks, low-carbon communities, low-carbon business and low-carbon transport pilots;

- To explore diversified patterns of low-carbon growth;

- To research on effective approaches to control carbon emissions in different regions and cities;

- To facilitate the emerging of low-carbon cities with rational space distribution, intensive utilization of resources, low-carbon and efficient production and livable green environment; and

- To research on and establish carbon emission accreditation and low-carbon honor system, to carry out low-carbon certification pilots and promotion of selected products.

J. Enhancing Support in terms of Science and Technology

- To improve the fundamental research into climate change, conducting research on climate change monitoring and forecasting and strengthening research on the mechanisms and assessment methodology of climate change impacts and risks;

- To strengthen research and development (R&D) and commercialization demonstration for low-carbon technologies, such as energy conservation, renewable energy, advanced nuclear power technologies and carbon capture, utilization and storage and to promote the technologies of utilizing carbon dioxide to enhance oil recovery and coal-bed methane recovery;

- To conduct R&D on early warning systems for extreme weather;

- To develop technologies on biological nitrogen fixation, green pest and disease prevention and control and protected agriculture;

- To strengthen R&D on technologies for water saving and desalination of sea water; and

- To improve the technical supporting system for addressing climate change, to establish a mechanism that effectively integrates government, industries and academic and research institutes and to strengthen professional personnel training for addressing climate change.

K. Increasing Financial and Policy Support

- To further increase budgetary support;

- To actively innovate the application of funds and explore new investment and financing mechanisms for low-carbon development, such as public-private partnerships;

- To implement preferential taxation policies for promoting the development of new energy and to improve mechanisms of pricing, grid access and procurement mechanisms for solar, wind and hydro power;

- To improve green government procurement policy systems including that on procurement of low-carbon and energy-conservation products;

- To advance the reform in the pricing and taxation regime for energy-and-resource-based products;

- To improve the green credit mechanisms, to encourage and guide financial institutions to operate energy-efficiency crediting business and to issue asset-securitized products for green credit assets; and

- To improve disaster insurance policy against climate change.

L. Promoting Carbon Emission Trading Market

- To build on carbon emission trading pilots, steadily implementing a nationwide carbon emission trading system and gradually establishing the carbon emission trading mechanism so as to make the market play the decisive role in resource allocation; and

- To develop mechanisms for the reporting, verifying and certificating of carbon emissions and to improve rules and regulations for carbon emission trading to ensure openness, fairness and justice in the operation of the carbon emission trading market.

M. Improving Statistical and Accounting System for GHG Emissions

- To further strengthen the work on statistics of climate change;

- To improve greenhouse gas emission statistics covering areas including energy activity, industrial process, agriculture, land-use change, forestry and waste treatment;

- To improve the statistical indicator systems for climate change, to strengthen personnel training and to constantly improve the quality of data;

- To strengthen the work on greenhouse gas emission inventory accounting;

- To prepare greenhouse gas inventories at the national and provincial level on a regular basis;

- To establish a greenhouse gas emission reporting mechanism for key enterprises;

- To formulate greenhouse gas emission accounting standards for enterprises in key sectors; and

- To build a fundamental statistics and accounting system for greenhouse gas emissions at national, subnational and enterprise levels.