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As most of the world continues to go more environmentally-friendly, or green, so too does China. 

With a plan to build a Beautiful China, the country has been promoting the efficient use and recycling of resources. The 2019 government work report, published in March, vowed to expand the construction of eco-friendly buildings. 

Governments across the country are being encouraged to opt for eco-friendly buildings, while builders are likewise being asked to go green to replace what up until now have been standard building designs. 

But it is not just buildings that are undergoing change, Chinese companies are getting involved in producing technologically innovative ways to enhance our daily lives. Rail transit, e-commerce platforms and even postal services are all going green. 

Today's Story in the Story looks at what governments and private companies are doing to operate in a more environmentally sensitive way.

A BYD SkyRail monorail train travels on an elevated track at the company's headquarters in Shenzhen, China, September 21, 2017. (Photo: VCG)

The Jingxi business center, in the western suburb of Beijing, is a new landmark featuring "green technologies," including heat-insulating walls, an electromechanical system with heat recovery technologies and a roof covered in plants. 

"Eco-friendly buildings are not only a way to save energy, protect the environment, and promote recycling and sustainable development, they also improve the quality of life," said Lian Yuming, president of Beijing International Institute for Urban Development. 

In 2005, China issued a guidance for eco-friendly construction technologies to encourage and regulate the industry. In 2017, China published a five-year plan for the development of eco-friendly construction, setting the goal to increase the proportion of eco-friendly buildings in all new buildings to 50 percent by 2020. 

Local governments across the country have also come up with incentives and regulations for eco-friendly buildings. 

In 2018, the northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region gave more than 12 million yuan in bonuses and subsidies to eco-friendly buildings. So far, the region has around 5.4 million square meters of eco-friendly buildings. 

The Vanke Fengjing in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is a typical eco-friendly residential complex. 

Ju Songtao, designer of the complex, said the walls, windows and doors were all built with heat insulating material, which can help reduce over 60 percent of energy consumption of air conditioning and heating and save 1.07 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. 

The buildings are also equipped with sewage treatment and rainwater recycling facilities, which can help save 11,000 tons of water every year. 

Jiang Yi, professor of architecture at Tsinghua University, said artificial intelligence and big data technologies are being used in the construction of eco-friendly buildings to collect and analyze energy consumption data.

(Photo: CGTN) 

"Eco-friendly buildings are the trend forward for urban construction and are an integral part of high-quality economic development," said Lian. 

Aside from buildings, in China's southern city of Shenzhen, BYD has installed the SkyShuttle rail transit system for employees who have to commute between offices, factories and apartments. 

Greenery can be planted on poles and beams for the SkyShuttle track, contributing to the improvement of the urban environment. 

Together with the subway, the future of urban rail transit represented by SkyShuttle creates an elevated transportation network that extends in all directions. The characteristics of urban rail transit involve energy conservation, land conservation, large volume transit, all-day service, reduced or no pollution, safety and punctuality. 

Another sector that is going eco-friendly is China's e-commerce platforms and postal services. 

Green logistics is the process of minimizing damage to the environment, while still maintaining efficiency. The Chinese government started to promote environment-friendly operations in 2016 and last May, the Provisional Regulations on Express Delivery came into effect. 

“The goals are improving the efficiency of package utilization, reducing package consumption, and tackling pollution,” said Liu Chong, a senior staff member of the Beijing Municipal Postal Administration. 

Shun Feng Express, JD and six other enterprises were chosen to carry out a pilot project on green packaging for parcel delivery. 

Shun Feng Express use environment-friendly material in making their boxes and packaging tape. They've also developed a new type of reusable box, called Feng Box. 

"It saves a lot of fillers, and its design becomes more normative and practical. For example, ten million Feng Boxes can substitute five hundred million original used delivery boxes," said Yao Hongxu, Deputy General Manager of Shun Feng Express. 

So, despite the difficulties, green logistics remains a central goal of China's express and logistics market. 

(Produced by Nancy Yan Xu, Brian Lowe, Lance Crayon, and Chelle Wenqian Zeng. Music by: bensound.com. Text from Global Times and CGTN.)