Table 1.

Government reports and policy documents related to the Yellow River basin.

Time	Source	Document	Related content
8 September 2021	The CPC Central Committee and the State Council	Outline of ecological protection and high-quality development plan for the Yellow River Basin	This planning outline is a programmatic document to guide the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin at present and in the future. It proposes to firmly take the road of green and sustainable high-quality development.
5 June 2020	Supreme People ‘s Court	Opinions of the Supreme People's Court on Providing Judicial Services and guarantees for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin	Courts at all levels are required to firmly establish the concept of ‘green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains’, and promote high-level protection of the ecological environment and high-quality economic development in the Yellow River basin.
28 May 2020	Ministry of Water Resources	Action plan for water resources supervision in the Yellow River Basin	It is proposed to organise and deploy the supervision of water resources in the Yellow River basin and to standardise the behaviour of water abstraction.
15 February 2022	Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Government	Ecological protection and high-quality development planning of the Yellow River Basin in Shandong Province	Shandong will innovate the mode of ecological environment protection and comprehensively improve the ecological environment.
24 February 2022	Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee and Government	Ecological protection and high-quality development planning of the Yellow River Basin in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region	Inner Mongolia will unswervingly follow a new path of high-quality development oriented by ecological priority and green development, and strive to achieve high-level protection in high-quality development and promote high-quality development in high-level protection.
6 May 2022	Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Government	Ecological protection and high-quality development planning of the Yellow River Basin in Shaanxi Province	Shaanxi will accelerate the green transformation and development of the river basin, and make the Wei he River a ‘benchmark river’ for ecological protection in the Yellow River basin.

Note: The ‘CPC Central Committee’ refers to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.