biostudies-literatureUnknown769Kang ANational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic and a major health emergency. In the process of fighting against COVID-19, the China Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) responded quickly and set up a working group as soon as possible. This article uses text mining to retrospectively analyze the government's public information on the website of MEE during the epidemic, sort out the timeline of MEE's response to COVID-19. We find that MEE's work during the COVID-19 pandemic is focused on medical waste and wastewater treatment, environment emergency monitoring, pollution prevention, and other environmental management for supporting economic recovery. It drafted three main medical waste management plans, an emergency environmental monitoring plan, and formulated "two lists" - a The Science of the total environment145158https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7837070biostudies-literatureEnvironmental management strategy in response to COVID-19 in China: Based on text mining of government open information.PMC7837070Zhu MFang ZRen LKang ADong MHua CSong HfalseEnvironmental management strategy in response to COVID-19 in China: Based on text mining of government open information.Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic and a major health emergency. In the process of fighting against COVID-19, the China Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) responded quickly and set up a working group as soon as possible. This article uses text mining to retrospectively analyze the government's public information on the website of MEE during the epidemic, sort out the timeline of MEE's response to COVID-19. We find that MEE's work during the COVID-19 pandemic is focused on medical waste and wastewater treatment, environment emergency monitoring, pollution prevention, and other environmental management for supporting economic recovery. It drafted three main medical waste management plans, an emergency environmental monitoring plan, and formulated "two lists" - a 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z2021 May2025-04-26T06:30:23.18Z2021-02-21T03:08:47ZS-EPMC78370703348520710.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145158