Dali pledges to intensify preservation of environment

Dali, a popular tourist attraction in Southwest China's Yunnan province, known for its pleasant climate and stunning natural scenery, has pledged to intensify efforts in wetland preservation, aiming to promote sustainable and high-quality development, said its mayor.

Mayor Wang Jian made the remarks after the city was accredited as an international wetland city on Thursday during the opening of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, or COP15, which is being held in Zimbabwe's resort city of Victoria Falls.

The accreditation was also given to eight other Chinese locations: Chongming in Shanghai, Fuzhou in Fujian province, Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, Jiujiang in Jiangxi province, Lhasa in the Xizang autonomous region, Suzhou in Jiangsu province, Wenzhou in Zhejiang and Yueyang in Hunan province.