Liao Xilong, member of the Central Military Commission, director of the Environment Protection and Afforestation Committee of the PLA, and director of the General Logistics Department of the PLA, stressed on March 24 at the 11th plenary session of the Environment Protection and Afforestation Committee of the PLA that efforts should be stepped up to focus on key work concerning the national and army environmental construction and make sure that remarkable successes should be achieved.

　　First of all, the "action program of green Olympics" should be successfully implemented and see to it that the task of environmental improvement for the troop units stationed in and near Beijing should be accomplished with high standards and high quality. Secondly, the "barracks action of energy conservation and emission reduction" should be carried out effectively and greater endeavors should be invested in upgrading the quality of green and ecological barracks. Thirdly, efforts should be devoted to putting into effect the special missions consigned to the military by the state and promoting in a down-to-earth manner the ecological conservation and environmental construction program in the military areas. Moreover, the military should actively adapt itself to the new situation of economic and social development and the new tasks stemmed from it, blaze a new road of environmental protection and ecological conservation featuring integrated military-civilian efforts, and do a good job in the comprehensive utilization of the military and civilian resources by way of enlisting adequately the comprehensive strength of national economy, science and technology.

　　The military should continue to stick to the benchmark and requirements that oblige the army to be at the head of the society in progressively upgrading the quality and level in terms of environmental protection and ecological conservation. .

　　By Liu Biao and Fan Juwei

　　(Mar 25, PLA Daily)                                       Editor: Chen Jie