According to the provisions of the Yangtze River Protection Law

Article 1 This Law is formulated with a view to strengthening the protection and restoration of the ecological environment in the Yangtze River Basin, promoting the rational and efficient utilization of resources, ensuring ecological security, and realizing the harmonious development between man and nature and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.

Article 2 This Law shall be observed in protecting and restoring the ecological environment and engaging in various production, living, development and construction activities in the Yangtze River Basin.

The Yangtze River Basin as mentioned in this Law refers to the relevant county-level administrative regions of Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang Autonomous Region, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai, as well as Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Guizhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.

Article 3 The economic and social development of the Yangtze River Basin should adhere to ecological priority and green development, attach great importance to protection and refrain from large-scale development; The protection of the Yangtze River should adhere to overall planning, scientific planning, innovation-driven and systematic governance.

Article 4 The State shall establish a coordination mechanism for the Yangtze River basin, give unified guidance and overall coordination to the protection of the Yangtze River, consider major policies and plans for the protection of the Yangtze River, coordinate major issues across regions and departments, and supervise and inspect the implementation of important work for the protection of the Yangtze River.

Article 5 The relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments at the provincial level in the Yangtze River Basin are responsible for implementing the decision of the national Yangtze River Basin coordination mechanism, and are responsible for the work related to the protection of the Yangtze River in accordance with the division of responsibilities.

The local people's governments at all levels in the Yangtze River Basin shall perform their duties of protecting and restoring the ecological environment of their respective administrative areas, promoting the rational and efficient utilization of resources, optimizing the industrial structure and layout, and maintaining the ecological security of the Yangtze River Basin.

People in charge of rivers and lakes at all levels in the Yangtze River basin are responsible for the protection of the Yangtze River.

Article 6 Relevant places in the Yangtze River Basin shall, according to needs, establish cooperation mechanisms in formulating local and government regulations, planning, supervision and law enforcement. To jointly promote the protection and restoration of the ecological environment in the Yangtze River Basin.

Article 7 The relevant departments of the State Council's ecological environment, resources, water administration, agriculture and rural areas, standardization, etc. shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities, establish and improve the standard systems of water environment quality and pollutant discharge, ecological environment restoration, water resources conservation and intensive utilization, ecological flow, biodiversity protection, aquaculture, disaster prevention and mitigation, etc.

Article 8 The competent department of natural resources in the State Council shall, jointly with relevant departments in the State Council, organize regular surveys on natural resources such as land, minerals, water, forests, grasslands and wetlands in the Yangtze River basin. Establish a basic database of resources, carry out the evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity, and announce the natural resources of the Yangtze River basin to the public.

The department in charge of wildlife protection in the State Council shall organize a general survey of wildlife and its habitats every ten years, or organize special investigations according to needs, establish archives of wildlife resources, and announce the wildlife resources in the Yangtze River basin to the public.

The competent agricultural and rural departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level in the Yangtze River Basin shall, jointly with the relevant departments of the people's governments at the same level, conduct biodiversity surveys on important habitats such as spawning grounds, feeding grounds, wintering grounds and migration routes of aquatic organisms.

Article 9 The national coordination mechanism of the Yangtze River Basin shall, on the basis of the established sites and monitoring projects, coordinate the relevant departments of the State Council to improve the monitoring network system and monitoring information sharing mechanism for the ecological environment, resources, hydrology, meteorology, shipping and natural disasters in the Yangtze River Basin.

The relevant departments of the State Council and the local people's governments at or above the county level in the Yangtze River Basin and their relevant departments shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities, organize and improve the ecological environment risk reporting and early warning mechanism.

Article 10 The competent department of ecological environment of the State Council shall, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council and the people's government at the provincial level in the Yangtze River Basin, establish and improve the emergency linkage mechanism for sudden ecological and environmental incidents in the Yangtze River Basin, and link it with the national emergency system to strengthen the emergency management of sudden ecological and environmental incidents in ships, ports, mines, chemical plants and tailings ponds in the Yangtze River Basin.

Article 11 The State shall strengthen the construction of monitoring, forecasting, early warning, defense, emergency response, recovery and reconstruction systems for floods, droughts, forest and grassland fires, geological disasters and earthquakes in the Yangtze River basin, and improve the ability of disaster prevention and mitigation, and disaster relief.

Article 12 The National Yangtze River Basin Coordination Body shall set up an expert advisory committee to organize professional institutions and personnel to carry out scientific and technological professional consultation on major development strategies, policies and plans of the Yangtze River Basin.

The relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments at the provincial level in the Yangtze River Basin and their relevant departments shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities, organize the third-party assessment, analysis and demonstration of the impact of construction projects, important infrastructure and industrial layout planning in the Yangtze River Basin on the ecosystem of the Yangtze River Basin.