[New ideas lead a new journey] Write a new answer to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China
News: Today is the Sixth Five-Year Plan Environment Day. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, the whole party and the country must maintain the strategic determination to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization, strive to promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and coordinate pollution Governance, ecological protection, and response to climate change, strive to build a beautiful China where man and nature coexist harmoniously, and make greater contributions to building a clean and beautiful world. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has taken a series of measures to promote the construction of a beautiful China and achieved remarkable results, supporting high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment.
Hunan, the country's largest wildlife tracking big data center, has now collected more than 80 million positioning data of various types of migratory birds with the help of Beidou satellite positioning technology. In this demonstration dynamic diagram, each color represents the migration route of a migratory bird. Not long ago, technical staff found after sorting out that the white-fronted geese, which were rare in previous years, have now become "frequent visitors" to Changsha.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has stood at the strategic height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and creatively proposed a series of new concepts, new thoughts and new strategies, forming Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and incorporating the construction of ecological civilization into China's The "five-in-one" overall layout of the cause of socialism with distinctive characteristics has made Beautiful China a governing concept. The construction of my country's ecological and environmental laws and systems has entered a period of the strongest legislation, the most intensive introduction of systems, and the most stringent supervision and enforcement standards, providing institutional guarantees for promoting historic, transitional, and overall changes in ecological and environmental protection. We wrote ecological civilization into the constitution, established the constitutional status of ecological civilization, formulated a wetland protection law, revised the forest law and grassland law, and formulated the Yangtze River protection law and the Yellow River protection law. Dozens of reform plans have been implemented one after another, building the "four beams and eight pillars" of the ecological civilization system.
In China today, the sky is bluer. China has become the country with the fastest improvement in air quality in the world. In the first quarter of this year, ambient air quality continued to improve, and the average concentration of PM2.5 in cities at the prefecture level and above nationwide fell by 6.5% year-on-year.
The ground is greener. my country is the first country in the world to achieve "zero growth" in land degradation and "double reduction" in the area of desertified land and desertified land. Its forest coverage rate has increased to 24.02%, making it the country with the fastest growth in forest resources in the world.
The water is clearer. Compared with 2012, the proportion of sections with excellent surface water quality across the country has increased by 27.8 percentage points in 2023, which is close to the level of developed countries. The water quality of the Yangtze River and Yellow River mainstreams has stably maintained Category II, and the quality of the water environment has undergone a turning change.
The ecological environment is better. Our country has established a natural protected area system with national parks as the main body, integrated and optimized more than 9,000 natural protected areas, and strictly protected the most precious natural assets and the most beautiful land.
The green and low-carbon development model has been accelerated across the board. Compared with 2012, my country's energy consumption per unit of GDP will drop by 26.8% in 2023, and the world's largest, most complete and most competitive clean energy industry chain will be built. The production and sales of new energy vehicles will rank first in the world for 9 consecutive years. .
Support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment. Currently, from mountain tops to oceans, from plateaus to plains, ecological protection and restoration of land and space are continuing to advance. A total of 52 "landscape projects" across the country have completed ecological protection, restoration and treatment covering an area of more than 100 million acres. At the same time, the pattern of land and space development and protection is constantly being optimized, and a nationally unified, scientific and efficient land and space planning system with clear responsibilities and powers has been formed.
"People live up to the mountains, and the mountains will live up to the people." Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, China will unswervingly follow the path of civilized development of production development, prosperity, and good ecology, and will surely build a solid ecological foundation for Chinese-style modernization. Let the blue sky, green mountains and green waters of China last forever, and a beautiful picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature be drawn.