The provincial committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in nine provincial-level regions along the Yellow River held the sixth consultative seminar on the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, from Nov 5 to 6. Shen Yueyue, vice-chairwoman of the CPPCC National Committee, attended and addressed the event. 

Shen said that the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is a major national strategy, and it is important to protect and promote the coordinated governance of the Yellow River to ensure that the mother river always benefits the people. 

Shen urged local CPPCC committees to fully leverage their roles as specialized consultative bodies to support the establishment of a working mechanism for scientific, precise and law-based governance, and the improvement to the ecological protection compensation mechanism and the collaborative protection mechanism to ensure the long-term ecological protection and high-quality development of the region. Special consultation and democratic supervision on ecological civilization construction by CPPCC bodies should be strengthened to forge a broader consensus on building a beautiful China, Shen added. 

Officials from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Ministry of Water Resources briefed the meeting on relevant situations and exchanged ideas with CPPCC participants on relevant concerns and suggestions.