According to news from the Nanyang Pollution Prevention and Control Office on March 25, Nanyang plans to complete 560 villages during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 74 of them in 2021, to increase the coverage of the city's comprehensive rural environmental renovation.

The Nanyang Pollution Prevention and Control Office had earlier established a joint working group to focus on the ecological environment, agriculture and rural areas, housing and urban-rural construction, water conservancy and other areas to carry out review and bring about improvement of the rural environment throughout the city.

The group reviewed the renovation of villages in 2019-2020, looking at protection of rural drinking water sources, treatment of rural domestic sewage, treatment of rural domestic garbage and prevention and control of pollution from livestock and poultry farming.

The review results showed that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period the qualified rate of drinking water in more than 1,500 renovated villages in the city reached 90 percent or more, the remediation rate of domestic waste reached 99.1 percent, the comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure reached 89.56 percent, and as regards domestic sewage treatment the rate was more than 60 percent, with a coverage rate in the villages where the township government is located reaching 92.5 percent.