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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 14th (Xinhua) - low-carbon leads towards "green" - green lifestyle becomes a trend and trend

Xinhua News Agency reporter

During the 33rd National Energy Conservation Promotion Week, the reporter visited Liuhua Lake Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and personally experienced a training program advocating for young people to develop energy-saving, environmentally friendly, green, and low-carbon lifestyle habits. "Caring for the Earth, protecting the environment, and conserving energy and reducing emissions are the responsibilities of every citizen," said Qu Changhong, the captain of the Guangzhou Yuexiu District Sunshine Tour Youth Volunteer Service Center.

Over the past 15 years, District Mayor Hong has organized over 3600 volunteer activities. She calls on teenagers to develop good habits from a young age, and to encourage their relatives, friends, citizens, and tourists to work together to save energy and reduce emissions, and to take care of the environment.

In the ongoing National Energy Conservation Promotion Week, the Green Life Creation Action has received widespread attention. From setting the air conditioning temperature reasonably, to actively sorting garbage, and then prioritizing public transportation and subway travel, green and low-carbon lifestyles are closely integrated into people's daily lives, becoming a new trend.

In the "Energy Conservation Propaganda into the Community" event organized by the local Development and Reform Commission and other departments in Jinxiu Haojia Community, Laishan District, Yantai, Shandong Province, onlookers listened and talked to volunteers who came to preach, saying, "We must cultivate good green and low-carbon living habits."

On July 12th, Jinxiu Haojia Community in Laishan District, Yantai, Shandong Province launched the "Energy Conservation Promotion into Community" activity. Photo by Zhang Wuyue, journalist from Xinhua News Agency

"Residents have developed good habits such as water conservation and garbage sorting, taking pride in implementing a green and low-carbon lifestyle." Liu Kehua, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jinxiu Haojia Community, told reporters that a green lifestyle is subtly improving the overall quality of residents.

Extending from every individual, every family, and every community, the green lifestyle trend is entering every aspect of society.

At a hot pot restaurant in Meile City, Handan City, Hebei Province, the reporter saw that the restaurant specifically launched a "half serving" set menu for consumers with fewer diners. The store manager said that sometimes when customers order too many dishes and choose to pack them away, they will give them a free fruit as a gift. "This measure is very good, neither wasteful nor cost-effective," citizen Li Hui told reporters.

Liu Yongfeng, a fourth level researcher at the Handan Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that we advocate for the catering industry to post energy-saving dining signs in prominent positions, introduce small and half serving dishes, guide consumers to use public spoons and chopsticks, and guide residents to form a diligent, thrifty, healthy, and green lifestyle and consumption style.

On July 11th, the reporter saw slogans related to frugal dining posted in a restaurant in Hanshan District, Handan City, Hebei Province. Photo by Zhao Hongyu, journalist from Xinhua News Agency

Journalists have visited multiple parts of the country and found that the connotation and extension of green lifestyle are constantly expanding. In recent years, green buildings, green transportation, green concepts, and other aspects have made significant progress, jointly helping to form a green lifestyle trend.

Recently, Beijing has experienced high temperatures. The National Speed Skating Center's "Ice Ribbon", "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center, Wukesong Ice Sports Center and other Winter Olympics athletes' competitive training venues have become a paradise for tourists to cool off in the scorching summer. The person in charge of Beijing National Speed Skating Center Operation Co., Ltd. introduced that the "Ice Ribbon" of the National Speed Skating Center effectively recovers a large amount of condensation heat emitted by the ice making system through efficient carbon dioxide transcritical direct cooling ice making technology, achieving the reuse of ice making waste heat and significantly improving energy utilization efficiency.

On July 1st, children were playing at the National Speed Skating Center's "Ice Ribbon". Photo by Ju Huanzong, journalist from Xinhua News Agency

The Beijing Municipal Government has proposed the urban transportation development concept of "slow traffic priority, public transportation priority, and green priority", aiming to build Beijing into a pedestrian and bicycle friendly city and continuously improve the level of low-carbon transportation services.

During the National Energy Conservation Promotion Week, the provincial-level carbon inclusive platform "Carbon Benefit Shandong" was launched and launched. "The platform uses advanced digital technologies such as mobile Internet, big data and blockchain to quantify, record and certify green and low-carbon behaviors such as taking buses and subways, using shared bicycles, and reducing the use of disposable goods, and generate individual emission reductions to be summarized into a carbon account." said Wu Hongyang, director of the Climate Change Response Department of Shandong Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment.

Relying on this platform, Shandong will gradually achieve "everyone has a carbon account and every household has a carbon ledger". The reporter learned that the emission reduction amount in the carbon account can be used as points to exchange for gifts or preferential benefits, in order to mobilize and stimulate the public to actively participate in carbon neutrality actions, and help establish a green and low-carbon lifestyle.

Recently, the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Management Measures for the Use and Reporting of Disposable Plastic Products by Business Operators", reducing the use of traditional plastics. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment and five other departments jointly issued the "Ten Norms for Citizen Ecological Environment Behavior"... With the implementation of multiple policy measures to support green living, green lifestyle will also become a trend.