Workers put ceramic wares into an electrical kiln at Zhongyu Ceramics in Dehua County in Quanzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Sept. 26, 2017. Dehua county, well-known for its ceramics making, has developed a greener way to fire ceramic wares by encouraging local enterprises to discard their traditional wood-fired kilns and use electric kilns. China has pledged to coordinate its efforts of environmental protection and economic development in 2019, an important year for winning the tough battle against pollution. At the annual Central Economic Work Conference earlier this month, authorities called for building on this year's achievement in pollution control, making more efforts and input in 2019. Since the turn of this year, China has made solid efforts to combat pollution and seen constant improvement of the environment. The Central Economic Work Conference made it clear that local governments must avoid past simple and unscrupulous practices in dealing with environmental problems. (Xinhua/Song Weiwei)