"As a petrochemical city, Maoming has promoted green development in recent years to boost the city's transformation," said Xu Zhihui, Party secretary of Maoming and a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress (NPC).

Maoming has been promoting afforestation and carrying out various greening activities to build itself into a National Forest City. It has reached the national standards of all the evaluation indicators for this title.

Maoming has been highlighting green development in recent years. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

The city has been making efforts to maintain good air quality. It had excellent or good air quality on 98.9 percent of days in 2020, the best in Guangdong province.

The ecological transformation of the petrochemical industry has also been pushed forward in Maoming. It has promoted energy conservation and carbon reduction, used clean energy, and fostered its environmental protection industry.

The city has attracted the alkane resources comprehensive utilization project, the largest private industrial project that Maoming has ever introduced, and has plans to build a world-class green chemical and hydrogen energy industrial park led by propane dehydrogenation.

"With the construction of the alkane project, Maoming is transforming from the traditional petrochemical industry to the green chemical and hydrogen energy industry, and getting closer to the city's goal of being a 'coastal green city'," said Xu.