Chinese premier chairs meeting on high-quality development, Yellow River ecology
China DailyBEIJING -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday presided over a State Council executive meeting to hear comprehensive inspection reports on work promoting high-quality development, and to study ecological protection efforts in the Yellow River Basin. Focusing on promoting high-quality development and efforts to achieve the country's annual economic and social development goals, inspections identified and helped tackle bottlenecks in reform and development, as well as urgent concerns from enterprises and the public, with encouraging outcomes, according to the meeting. The quality of the ecological environment in the Yellow River Basin has improved steadily, and the capacity to ensure water security has continued to strengthen, according to the meeting. The meeting highlighted work to protect the region's ecology and tackle pollution, aiming to promote the green transformation of economic development.