Jining, located in southwestern Shandong Province, is a place where various wetlands, including river, lake, marsh, and man-made wetlands, intertwine, endowing Jining with abundant animal and plant resources and complete and functional ecosystem services. Affected by the profound wetland cultures, Jining explores novel ideas and paths in environmental treatment processes. By flexibly combining wetland protection and human settlement renovation Jining has exploited the ecosystem services and functions and steadily increased the total wetland areas.

In 2015, the “Regulation on Jining wetlands Conservation and Management” were promulgated and implemented by Jining municipality, regulate wetland protection and utilization activities.

In 2016, Regulations on the conservation and management of Sihe river in Jining were promulgated by Shandong provincial legislation. Specifically used for the protection and management of the main urban river “Sihe River.

In 2016, the Shandong Wetland Protection Project Implementation Plan (2016-2020) listed the restoration of subsidence area in Jining as key wetland construction project, and planned to harness 20,000 ha of subsidence wetlands, so as to enrich biodiversity, carry out appropriate ecological tourism and promote the development of tertiary industry.

In 2019, the “Jining wetlands Protection Master Plan” (2019-2025) plans to implement wetland protection, wetland restoration, wetland scientific research monitoring and science education, wetland management, wetland culture, sustainable use of wetlands, aim to achieve targeted improvement in each of the main wetland areas of Jining City.

In 2021, the “Measures for Identifying and Management Important Wetlands and General Wetlands in Jining” were introduced to standardize the identification of important and general wetlands throughout the city.