Formulated to facilitate circular economy, resource efficiency and environmental protection China's Circular Economy Promotion Law came into force in January 2009. The Law aims to achieve sustainable development by raising resources utilization rate and increasing resource recovery in production, circulation, and consumption.
China's National Climate Change Programme outlines the objectives, basic principles, key areas of actions as well as policies and measures to address climate change for the period up to 2010.
Rapid industrialization and urbanization have immensely impacted human health ensued due to increasing environmental pollution in China. Environmental protection and safeguarding public health have become the urgent demand of the public. China's 12th Five-Year Plan for the Environmental Health Work of National Environmental Protection aims to tackle these issues by outlining the current situation and problems in the development of environmental health work and identifying and improving the key areas that will contribute to safeguarding measures.
The Energy Conservation Law of the People's Republic of China is formulated for the purpose of promoting energy conservation in the whole society, improving energy utilization efficiency, protecting and ameliorating the environment, and striving for all round, balanced and sustainable development of the economy and the society.
The Ninth National Economic and Social Development Plan adopts the philosophy of sufficiency economy that focuses on the alleviation of poverty and upgrading of the quality of life for the Thai people. The sufficiency economy philosophy will be followed as a shared value of the Thai people, guiding the transformation to a new national management system based on efficiency, quality of life, and sustainability objectives.