Sea areas with the highest level of water quality expanded by about 20,000 sq km last summer, MEE data showed.

Bai Qiuyong, an official with the ministry, attributed such improvement to the country's effective measures on protecting marine ecosystem and environment.

According to the 13th Five-Year Plan, China aims to see a more than 80-percent annual average share of good quality days by 2020, and improve the share of surface water of the third quality level or higher to at least 70 percent.

To achieve such ecological and environmental targets, the central government provided fiscal support worth 255.5 billion yuan (about 37.03 billion U.S. dollars) in 2018.

China should continue its tough battle against pollution and seek further improvement of ecological and environment quality, Bai said.

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