China's provincial governments are submitting territorial development plans, in a bid to reverse the country's previous development model and protect the environment.

Fourteen provincial-level governments have submitted their plans to the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning agency, Economic Information, a newspaper affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The move is the follow-up of a 2011 program that the country initiated to rein in the reckless development of land and resources.