In recent years, Taiyuan in North China's Shanxi province has been focusing on comprehensive mountain governance, systematic water management, robust air pollution control, and integrated urban development across the entire region.

As a result, Taiyuan's forest coverage rate has now reached 43 percent, and the grand vision of a "Splendid Taiyuan" is rapidly becoming a beautiful reality.

In the outlying mountainous areas, efforts have concentrated on re-greening damaged mountain slopes and the comprehensive rehabilitation of coal mining subsidence areas. Simultaneously, the city has promoted afforestation on suitable barren mountains and wasteland, the transformation of low-yield forests, and high-standard afforestation.

This approach not only strengthens the ecological barrier, but also advances land greening and improves forest quality. In the peri-urban mountain-city transition zones, the city has explored natural and cultural resources, improved transportation and communication infrastructure, and advanced the construction of green rest stops and forest health resorts.

Within the urban area, the "100 Parks Greening Project" continues to advance, further improving the greenway network. Former coal mining subsidence areas and ecologically damaged zones now showcase lush, beautiful ecological landscapes. The Dongshan and Xishan mountains have seen the construction of 30 distinctive suburban forest parks.

Taiyuan's ecological environment department relies on its air pollution command and dispatch platform, integrating functions such as high-altitude video surveillance, electricity consumption monitoring, drone patrols, and online monitoring of muck trucks and non-road mobile machinery.

This allows for 24/7, comprehensive monitoring of the atmospheric environment. In the first three quarters of this year, Taiyuan recorded 201 days of good or excellent air quality, an excellent-to-good rate of 73.6 percent – an increase of 35 days over the same period last year.