The beauty of Chenzhou is not only created by nature, but also cultivated meticulously. In recent years, Chenzhou's finance expenditure in the field of people's livelihood accounts for 77.6 percent of the general public budget expenditure.

In order to improve the quality of urban and rural environment, Chenzhou has adhered to five modernizations of "beautify, afforest, purify, brighten and orderly", continued to carry out comprehensive renovation actions of city appearance and urban and rural environmental sanitation, and created "a clean and orderly city" and "a beautiful and livable city".

In order to provide a comfortable living environment for the citizens, Chenzhou comprehensively promoted the projects of "two supplies and two governance", "two rooms and two sheds", "urban double repair", urban comprehensive pipe gallery, transformation of agricultural trade market, garbage collection and treatment, and started the recycling of construction waste and kitchen waste. 182 alleys and 32 farmer's markets have been improved, and the disposal rate of sewage sludge up to standard and the harmless treatment rate of domestic waste have reached 100 percent.

In order to make citizens' cultural activities more colorful, Chenzhou has built "500 meter park circle", "15 minute community service circle" and "one quarter hour public cultural service circle" to improve people's sense of access, happiness and security.

In order to make people's life more healthy and green, Chenzhou has formulated the pedestrian and bicycle transportation system planning, built more than 710000 meters of pedestrian road and 420000 meters of bicycle road in the urban area, set up 49 public bicycle rental points, and invested more than 1300 new energy buses.

Promoting ecological civilization construction is an important part of Xi Jinping's socialist thought with China's characteristics in the new era. It is also an important indicator for Chenzhou to promote economic work with the new development concept as its main content. Today, the city is seriously implementing the requirements of green development and striving to build an ecological model city.

In recent years, with the construction of ecological livable cities as the carrier, Chenzhou City has seriously implemented the requirements of green development, increased ecological construction and restoration, strengthened the comprehensive treatment of environmental pollution of ecological elements such as water, gas and soil, and actively promoted the development of green industry, with remarkable achievements.

Green development needs the guidance of the system. Chenzhou has prepared 23 special plans to strengthen urban ecological protection, issued a number of normative documents such as green line control and garden construction, launched the three major defense wars of "blue sky, clear water and clean land", realized the blue sky, green earth, green water and clean land, and made green marks in all aspects of urban development and governance.

The construction of ecological livable city is a process of continuous efforts. After the ice disaster in 2008, in order to reappear the magnificent scenery of "city in the forest", Chenzhou has carried out three years of ecological landscape construction around the urban area, seven years of urban green city, three years of urban green shade action, four years of urban double repair action, three years of urban and rural green breakthrough, and three years of channel green breakthrough. Through unremitting efforts, Chenzhou has truly built a new pattern of ecological city that "city in the green, garden in the city, and city green integration".

Ecological wealth is the greatest wealth, and green home is the most beautiful home. The comfortable and pleasant scenery of Chenzhou has met the needs and aspirations of the citizens for a beautiful ecological environment to the greatest extent. At the same time, the ecological livable Chenzhou has become the most distinctive background and the most lasting advantage.