中共中央總書記、國家主席、中央軍委主席習近平5月21日給上海市虹口區嘉興路街道垃圾分類志愿者回信，對推進垃圾分類工作提出殷切期望。

習近平在回信中說，看到來信，我想起五年前同大家交流垃圾分類工作的情景，你們熱心公益、服務群眾的勁頭讓我印象深刻。得知經過這幾年的宣傳推動，垃圾分類在你們那里取得新的成效，居民文明程度提高了，社區環境更美了，我很欣慰。

習近平強調，垃圾分類和資源化利用是個系統工程，需要各方協同發力、精準施策、久久為功，需要廣大城鄉居民積極參與、主動作為。希望你們繼續發揮志愿者在基層治理中的獨特作用，用心用情做好宣傳引導工作，帶動更多居民養成分類投放的好習慣，推動垃圾分類成為低碳生活新時尚，為推進生態文明建設、提高全社會文明程度積極貢獻力量。

習近平總書記十分關注垃圾分類和資源化利用，多次作出重要指示。近年來，我國垃圾分類工作持續深入推進，297個地級以上城市已全面實施生活垃圾分類，居民小區平均覆蓋率達到82.5%。近日，上海市虹口區嘉興路街道垃圾分類志愿者代表給習近平總書記寫信，匯報當地垃圾分類工作取得的成效，表達為推動垃圾分類在更大范圍開花結果貢獻力量的決心。

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Xi urges efforts to promote garbage sorting as new fashion for low-carbon life

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday replied to a letter from volunteers who have been helping with garbage sorting in a residential community in Shanghai, expressing his keen hope to advance garbage sorting.

In the letter, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said he was deeply impressed by the volunteers' enthusiasm for public welfare and their passion for serving the people.

Xi said he was gratified to know that after recent years of publicity, the community has made new progress in garbage sorting, its residents' civility has been enhanced and its environment has become more beautiful.

Garbage sorting and recycling is a systematic project that requires concerted and long-term efforts from all parties, precise measures and active participation of both urban and rural residents, the president said.

Xi said he hopes volunteers could continue to play the unique role in grassroots governance, do a good job of publicity, encourage more residents to develop the habit of sorting garbage, promote it to become a new fashion of low-carbon life, and make contributions to promoting the construction of ecological civilization and improving the level of civilization among the whole society.

Xi has paid a lot of attention to garbage sorting and recycling, and made multiple instructions on the issue.

In recent years, garbage sorting has been carried out in 297 cities at or above the prefecture level in China, with an average coverage rate of 82.5 percent in residential communities.