A night view of Quzhou in East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/qz123.com]

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently released the National Low-Carbon City Pilot Work Progress Evaluation Report. Quzhou received an excellent evaluation, ranking fifth among 81 low-carbon pilot cities in the country.

The evaluation was performed by the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation and more than 10 experts from fields including system mechanisms, energy, construction, transportation, investment and financing, and carbon sinks were invited to form an evaluation group.

Since the establishment of the National Low-Carbon Day in 2012, Quzhou has been promoting green and low-carbon concepts in myriad ways, has encouraged green low-carbon action, and has transformed into a collaborative innovation city for carbon reduction.

For example, through a collaborative wastewater recycling model, Zhejiang Yishu Paper Co Ltd has been guided by the government in absorbing wastewater from three special paper enterprises in the surrounding area and using for production water every year, with about 1 million metric tons of water reused annually.

Quzhou was also selected as a provincial-level collaborative pilot city for pollution and carbon reduction. Three industrial parks in the city were selected as provincial-level collaborative pilot parks for pollution reduction and carbon reduction.

So far this year, the city's pollution reduction and carbon reduction index has remained in the top three in Zhejiang province.