AI Infographic: Development of China's resources, environment and emergency management in 2025

In 2025, the total supply of state-owned land for construction use was 471 thousand hectares, a decrease of 22.2 percent over that of the previous year.

In 2025, the total area of afforestation reached 3.56 million hectares, of which 0.83 million hectares were afforested by manpower, accounting for 23.2 percent of the total. The land area improved by grass plantation was 4.93 million hectares. By the end of 2025, there were 5 national parks.

Preliminary estimation indicated that the total energy consumption in 2025 amounted to 6.17 billion tons of standard coal equivalent, up by 3.5 percent over that of 2024. The consumption of coal accounted for 51.4 percent of the total energy consumption, 1.8 percentage points lower than that of 2024, while clean energy consumption, such as natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, wind power and solar power accounted for 30.4 percent, 1.8 percentage points higher.

The area of offshore oceanic water that met the national quality standard Grade I and II accounted for 84.9 percent.

Of the monitored 339 cities at prefecture level and above, the annual average concentration of particulate matter (PM2.5) was 28.0 micrograms per cubic meter, down by 4.4 percent over the previous year.

Of the 332 cities subject to urban regional daytime acoustic environment monitoring, 9.3 percent enjoyed excellent environment, and 65.1 percent had good environment in 2025.