The 2025 China Carbon Market Conference was held in Shanghai, with Chen Jining delivering a speech and Sun Jinlong, Li Dianxun, and Gong Zheng jointly launching the conference.

The China Carbon Market Conference in 2025 is being held today in Shanghai. Chen Jineng, the secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Sun Jinlong, the secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and Li Dianxun, the deputy secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the governor, made speeches at the opening ceremony, jointly launching the conference with Gong Zheng, the deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee and the mayor. Chen Jineng pointed out that President Xi Jinping solemnly declared to the international community the goal of achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, providing a fundamental direction and fundamental compliance for China's green and low-carbon development. Shanghai, as one of the earliest pilot provinces and cities for carbon markets in China, under the strong guidance of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, has thoroughly implemented the national "dual carbon" strategy, helping to build a carbon market system with Chinese characteristics. Shanghai will be guided by Xi Jinping's ecological civilization ideology, use carbon market construction as a traction, promote new progress in green and low-carbon transformation, and give full play to the leading and demonstrative role in promoting China's modernization. Deepen cooperation between the central and local governments, better serve the construction of the national carbon market. Implement and improve basic systems such as carbon emission rights trading, and continuously deepen local carbon market reform pilots. Improve green financial standards and catalogs, support financial institutions in expanding business scale, exploring and developing derivative systems, and help enhance the vitality of the carbon market. Adhere to a variety of measures, accelerate the comprehensive transformation of the economy and society toward green and low carbon. Promote key technological innovations such as low-carbon, zero-carbon, and negative carbon, and their scaled application, vigorously cultivate green technology suppliers and transformation service providers, actively build a green and low-carbon supply chain system. Innovate carbon inclusive mechanisms, optimize voluntary emission reduction methodology systems, and guide citizens to form a green lifestyle. Advocate openness and innovation, deepen international green cooperation, continuously promote cross-national recognition and alignment of standards, join hands in global low-carbon governance, build zero-carbon communities and green shipping corridors, support international organizations, professional institutions, and important platforms in the development of Shanghai in the green field, support Chinese companies in taking green technologies, projects, and standards abroad, and contribute greater strength to green and low-carbon development.