Guangdong's future comes with green tint

Guangdong has set the goal of turning all nine cities in the Pearl River Delta green by 2020, building the country's first conglomeration of State-level forest cities.

The province, a manufacturing giant, plans to increase its forest coverage from 58.8 percent to 60.5 percent in 2020, according to a government work report on the province's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20).

Guangdong Governor Zhu Xiaodan delivered the report at the opening of the annual local legislative session in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, on Monday. The session will last until Saturday.