Legal basis:
People's Republic of China (PRC) Environmental Protection Law
Article 4 Protecting the environment is the basic national policy of the country.
The state adopts economic and technological policies and measures that are conducive to saving and recycling resources, protecting and improving the environment, and promoting harmony between man and nature, so as to coordinate economic and social development with environmental protection.
Article 5 Environmental protection adheres to the principles of giving priority to protection, giving priority to prevention, comprehensive management, public participation and responsibility for damage.
Thirteenth people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate environmental protection into the national economic and social development plan.
The competent department of environmental protection in the State Council shall, jointly with relevant departments, formulate a national environmental protection plan according to the national economic and social development plan, and report it to the State Council for approval and promulgation.
The competent department of environmental protection of the local people's government at or above the county level shall, in conjunction with the relevant departments, formulate the environmental protection plan of the administrative region according to the requirements of the national environmental protection plan, and report it to the people's government at the same level for approval before promulgation and implementation.
The content of environmental protection planning should include the objectives, tasks and safeguard measures of ecological protection and pollution prevention, and be connected with the planning of main functional areas, the overall planning of land use and urban and rural planning.