Shanghai Municipal Government has invested 20 billion yuan (US$2.4 billion) this year for its second-round Three-Year Environment Act, government spokesperson Jiao Yang said this afternoon at the regular press conference.
Jiao announced the results of a mid-term evaluation report of the environmental protection program, which started last year, as well.
According to the report, this year the local government has pushed 20 billion yuan in environment, accounting for more than 3 percent of the city's gross domestic product.
It has started 250 projects, or 92 percent, of the total 273 in the three-year act and completed 63, or 23 percent.
As a result, about 85 percent of the year has reported good air quality.  The green coverage rate in the downtown area will grow to 36 percent and the per-capita green space will rise to 36 square meters.
The sewage water disposal capacity has increased by 3.08 million tons each day, while the polluted waterways have decreased by 18 percent in the downtown area and 23 percent in suburbs.
In solid garbage disposal, Shanghai has started two of the total 18 work items, with 2,523 household garbage collection centers established in communities and 250 used product collection stations and 127 household garbage compressing stations set up citywide.