Focus Interview | Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of Ecological Environment in Beautiful China | China | Construction
Ecological environment protection is not only a matter of national importance, but also closely related to everyone.This is the first high-level meeting held in the field of ecological and environmental protection after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. What is the transcript of China's ecological and environmental protection work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China? How should ecological and environmental protection work continue in the important period of building a beautiful China in the next five years? How to promote the construction of a beautiful China on the basis of respecting, adapting to, and protecting nature?
This is the second national conference on ecological and environmental protection held after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The more focused task this time is to build a beautiful China, and to comprehensively promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature through the construction of a beautiful China.
Zhang Xin'an, President of the China Academy of Natural Resources and Economics: This conference marks a new stage of ecological civilization construction in our country, embarking on a new journey, pointing out the direction of ecological civilization construction, clarifying goals and tasks, and enhancing confidence and determination in building ecological civilization.
In this speech, General Secretary pointed out that China has achieved four major changes in the field of ecological civilization construction: achieving a significant shift from key rectification to systematic governance, a significant shift from passive response to proactive action, a significant shift from global environmental governance participants to leaders, and a significant shift from practical exploration to scientific theoretical guidance.
Qian Yong, Director of the Research Center for Xi Jinping's Ecological Civilization Thought: These four major changes are not only a systematic summary of the historical, turning, and global changes in the protection of the ecological environment and the construction of ecological civilization in the new era in the past ten years, but also conceptual, Ideological, cognitive, and methodological summaries.
Hao Dong, deputy director of the Strategic Philosophy Teaching and Research Office of the Central Party School: We have formed Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought on the basis of full practice. This is also the most important theoretical achievement in the process of promoting the construction of a beautiful China and promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It has guided us to make historic achievements in the process of advancing practice, and it is also the most fundamental reason why we can make historic achievements.
Under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, in the past ten years, ecological protection policies and systems have been intensively introduced, ecological environmental problems have been strictly investigated, and the use of clean energy has been promoted. A series of fundamental changes have taken place in my country's ecological environment, and various phased goals and tasks in the battle for pollution prevention and control have been fully completed. my country's economic development and green development have achieved miracles that have attracted worldwide attention.
Wan Jun, Chief Engineer of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: In the past decade, we have contributed more to global economic growth than the sum of G7 countries. At the same time, our ecological environment quality is continuously improving, with a 57% decrease in urban PM2.5 concentration, a 93% decrease in heavily polluted weather, a 26.3 percentage point increase in the proportion of excellent surface water bodies, and a 6.2% economic growth supported by 3% energy consumption. The level of green development is also continuously improving, and the whole society is truly feeling the continuous improvement of the ecological environment.
The sky is bluer, the mountains are greener, and the water is clearer. China's ecological protection and restoration are also constantly being systematically promoted. The overall plan for the protection and restoration of important national ecosystems has been formulated and implemented, and the ecological protection red line has been fully delineated for the first time. A natural reserve system with national parks as the main body has been established, and tangible achievements have been made in biodiversity protection. Gradually becoming a leader in global environmental governance from a participant.
Du Guanyin, Director of the Comprehensive Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said: "We have organized and implemented 51 integrated protection and restoration projects for mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sands in collaboration with relevant departments. We have completed a total of over 80 million acres of governance, and have also included the integrated protection and restoration projects for mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sands. They have also been selected as one of the first ten flagship projects for world ecological restoration by the United Nations.".
Wang Zhibin, Director of the Department of Natural Ecological Protection of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which is the chairman of my country, was successfully held. The general secretary delivered video speeches at the two stages of the meeting. Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought is in the international community. It has been widely spread, and it has also demonstrated my country's leading role in the field of global environmental governance.
Despite achieving unprecedented significant achievements, China's ecological civilization construction still has a long way to go.
Qian Yong, director of the Xi Jinping Ecological Civilization Thought Research Center: When the task of pollution prevention and control has not been fully completed, we have to reduce carbon and achieve dual carbon goals. These goals and tasks are all in the same time period. In a physical space, the pressure is superimposed, and the task is compound.
One is the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection; The second is the relationship between key challenges and collaborative governance; The third is the relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration; The fourth is the relationship between external constraints and endogenous forces; The fifth is the relationship between "dual carbon" commitments and independent actions.
Qian Yong, director of the Xi Jinping Ecological Civilization Thought Research Center: Five major relationships, first of all, on the basis of practice of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, it also puts forward new theoretical achievements, new creations, new upgrades, new enrichments, and new developments. On the other hand, Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought is theoretically an open system that keeps pace with the times.
Hao Dong, Deputy Director of the Strategic Philosophy Teaching and Research Office of the Central Party School: These five major relationships cover a series of fundamental issues that need to be addressed in promoting ecological civilization construction, such as development and protection, subjectivity and objectivity, reality and long-term issues, domestic and international issues. They also depict a series of principled issues for promoting China's ecological civilization construction in the future and building a beautiful China with high quality.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly states that high-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country. How to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China in this process?How to handle the relationship between key challenges and collaborative governance is also an urgent issue that needs to be addressed during the critical period of pressure and heavy burden in the construction of ecological civilization.
He emphasized the need to continue to deepen the battle against pollution prevention and control, accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of development methods, focus on improving the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems, actively and prudently promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and firmly guard the safety bottom line of building a beautiful China.
Hao Dong, Deputy Director of the Strategic Philosophy Teaching and Research Office of the Central Party School: It covers not only aspects of production and life, but also aspects of conceptual development and international responsibility. It covers how ecological civilization construction can be unified with other constructions in the "Five in One" development model of future socialist modernization construction. This is the aspect that we need to focus on in the process of promoting harmonious coexistence between humans and nature in the future modernization construction.
The battle against pollution prevention and control has been a long-term achievement, and continuing to deepen the fight against pollution prevention and control is the most direct response of our party to the people's yearning for a better life, and it is also the primary task of ecological environment protection work in the future.
Liu Bingjiang, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and Director of the Atmospheric Environment Department: Nowadays, the people's demand for blue skies and white clouds is increasing. However, extreme weather conditions have added huge uncertainty to the improvement of air quality. China's air quality saw a 6.2% increase in PM2.5 in the first half of this year, while GDP grew by 5.5%, marking the first time in a decade.
Huang Xiaozhu, Director of the Water Ecology and Environment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: In the past, water environment protection focused more on water pollution control. According to the clear requirements put forward by General Secretary at this conference, our next step is to focus more on coordinating the three water systems and promoting harmony between people and water. For example, in terms of indicator setting, there are not only some physical and chemical indicators, but also some user-friendly indicators, so that the people can more personally feel the achievements of water ecological environment protection.
In the past decade, guided by the concept that green mountains and clear waters are invaluable assets, China's development model has undergone profound changes, and green development has gradually penetrated into people's hearts.
Zhang Xin'an, President of the China Academy of Natural Resources and Economics: General Secretary emphasized the need to accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of production methods. The fundamental solution is to start from the perspective of resource utilization, adhere to the conservation strategy, adhere to the resource concept of conservation, intensification, and recycling proposed by General Secretary, make good use of resources, strengthen control from the source, and achieve twice the result with half the effort.
To do a good job, one must first sharpen their tools. To complete the strategic tasks of building a beautiful China, there must be supporting measures to ensure it.
Zhang Yunfei, a researcher at the Institute of Development and Strategy at Renmin University of China: We must seize the ecological trend of the development of the new technological revolution, focus on green, low-carbon, and circular development, and promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, promoting the innovative development of green technology.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that building a beautiful China is an important goal of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. It is necessary to uphold and strengthen the overall leadership of the party. All regions and departments must fully implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, implement responsibilities, and continue to play the role of the central government. The role of a sharp sword for ecological and environmental protection inspectors.
Xu Bijiu, Executive Deputy Director of the Central Ecological Environmental Protection Supervision Office: The Central Ecological Environmental Protection Supervision is to firmly grasp the political attributes and political direction of the supervision, take Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought as a major political task, and take the general secretary's important instructions on ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection as the top priority to ensure resolute implementation, compact the political responsibility of ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection, and promote high-quality economic development.
The construction of ecological civilization is a fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.Beautiful China, picturesque scenery, with a promising future.
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