Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Ecological Environment Protection Conference to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China and accelerate the promotion of a modern ecological environment in which man and nature coexist harmoniously | Ecology | Conference
Former Xi Jinping stressed at the National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection
Comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China
Accelerate the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature
Li Qiang presides over Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Li Xi attend
Speech by Ding Xuexiang
The National Conference on Ecological Environment Protection was held in Beijing from July 17th to 18th, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Li Qiang presided over the meeting. Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Li Xi attended the meeting. Ding Xuexiang gave a concluding speech.
We start by addressing prominent ecological and environmental issues, emphasizing the combination of points and areas, addressing both symptoms and root causes, and achieving a significant transformation from key remediation to systematic governance; Adhere to the transformation of concepts, consolidate responsibilities, continuously enhance the consciousness and initiative of the entire Party and the whole country to promote ecological civilization construction, and achieve a significant transformation from passive response to proactive action; Keeping up with the times, looking at the world, assuming great country responsibilities, demonstrating great country responsibilities, and achieving a significant transformation from a participant in global environmental governance to a leader; Continuously deepen our understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction, form the socialist ecological civilization ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and achieve a significant transformation from practical exploration to scientific theoretical guidance. After persistent efforts, China's sky has become bluer, the ground greener, the water clearer, and the rivers and mountains thousands of miles more colorful. The achievements of ecological civilization construction in the new era have attracted worldwide attention, becoming a significant symbol of historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country in the new era.
China's economic and social development has entered a high-quality stage of accelerating green and low-carbon development, and the construction of ecological civilization is still in a critical period of pressure accumulation and heavy burden. We must plan and promote the ecological and environmental protection work of the new journey with a higher position, broader vision, and greater efforts, and write a new chapter in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era.
One is the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection. We should plan development from the perspective of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, continuously shape new driving forces and advantages of development through high-level environmental protection, focus on building a green, low-carbon, and circular economy system, effectively reduce the resource and environmental costs of development, and continuously enhance the potential and momentum of development. The second is the relationship between key challenges and collaborative governance. We must adhere to a systematic concept, grasp the main contradictions and their main aspects, take effective measures to address prominent ecological and environmental issues, and strengthen goal coordination, multi pollutant control coordination, departmental coordination, regional coordination, and policy coordination, continuously enhancing the systematic, holistic, and collaborative nature of all work. The third is the relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration. We must adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sands, and build a comprehensive protection and governance pattern from the mountaintop to the ocean. We should comprehensively use both natural restoration and artificial restoration methods, and implement policies according to local conditions and zoning classification, striving to find the best solution for ecological protection and restoration. The fourth is the relationship between external constraints and endogenous driving forces. We must always adhere to the strictest system and the strictest rule of law to protect the ecological environment, maintain normal external pressure, and at the same time, stimulate the endogenous driving force of the whole society to jointly care for the ecological environment. The fifth is the relationship between "dual carbon" commitments and independent actions. The "dual carbon" goals we have promised are fixed and unshakable, but the path, methods, pace, and intensity to achieve these goals should and must be determined by ourselves and not influenced by others.
We need to accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of development methods, adhere to green and low-carbon development as the fundamental solution to ecological and environmental problems, accelerate the formation of green production methods and lifestyles, and cultivate a green background for high-quality development. Efforts should be made to enhance the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems, increase efforts in ecosystem protection, effectively strengthen supervision of ecological protection and restoration, broaden the path of transforming green mountains and clear waters into golden mountains and silver mountains, and leave a beautiful ecological space for future generations. We must actively and prudently promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, adhere to the principles of national coordination, prioritizing conservation, dual wheel drive, smooth internal and external communication, and risk prevention, implement the "1+N" policy system for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, build a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system, accelerate the construction of a new type of power system, and enhance the national oil and gas security guarantee capacity. We must firmly adhere to the bottom line of building a beautiful China, implement the overall national security concept, actively and effectively respond to various risks and challenges, effectively maintain ecological security, nuclear and radiation safety, and ensure that the natural environment and conditions on which we rely for survival and development are not threatened or damaged.
Coordinate resources in various fields, gather forces from all sides, and effectively combine the rule of law, market, technology, and policy. We need to strengthen the guarantee of the rule of law, coordinate the revision of relevant laws in the fields of ecological environment, resources and energy, implement the strictest ecological environment governance system that integrates land and sea, land and sea, and regional linkage, fully implement the pollution discharge permit system, improve the natural resource asset management system, and improve the land and space use control system. We need to improve economic policies for green and low-carbon development, strengthen fiscal support, tax policy support, financial support, and price policy support. We need to promote a better combination of effective markets and promising governments, integrate resource and environmental factors such as carbon emission rights, energy rights, water rights, and pollution discharge rights into the overall framework of factor market-oriented allocation reform, support market trading behaviors such as transfer, mortgage, and equity investment, accelerate the construction of an environmental credit supervision system, regulate the environmental governance market, and promote the healthy development of the environmental protection industry and environmental service industry. We need to strengthen technological support, promote the self-reliance and self-improvement of green and low-carbon technology, make addressing climate change and new pollutant control key areas of national basic research and technological innovation, focus on key core technology research and development, implement major actions for ecological and environmental technological innovation, cultivate and cultivate a high-level team of ecological and environmental technology talents, deepen the application of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, build a beautiful China's digital governance system, and build a green and intelligent digital ecological civilization.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council will make a systematic deployment to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China in the near future. Each region and department should continuously enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, and fully implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. Local party committees and governments at all levels must firmly shoulder the political responsibility of building a beautiful China, and promptly study and formulate a responsibility system for ecological environment protection for local party and government leaders, establishing a comprehensive responsibility system that covers all aspects, has consistent rights and responsibilities, clear rewards and punishments, and is interconnected. Relevant departments should conscientiously implement the list of responsibilities for ecological civilization construction, strengthen division of labor and responsibility, strengthen coordination and linkage, and form a strong joint force for joint management. People's congresses and their standing committees at all levels should strengthen the construction of the rule of law for the protection of ecological civilization and the supervision of legal implementation. Political consultative conferences at all levels should increase their efforts in special consultations and democratic supervision on ecological civilization construction. We must continue to play the role of the central ecological and environmental protection inspection as a sharp sword.
When presiding over the meeting, Li Qiang pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech comprehensively summarized the great achievements of my country's ecological civilization construction that have attracted worldwide attention, especially the historical, turning, and overall changes, and in-depth analysis of the current situation facing the construction of ecological civilization. Profoundly expounded the major relationships that need to be handled in the new journey to promote the construction of ecological civilization, and systematically deployed strategic tasks and major measures to comprehensively promote China's beautiful construction, in order to further strengthen the protection of the ecological environment and promote the construction of ecological civilization, it provides direction guidance and fundamental follow. It is necessary to conscientiously study, understand, and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Jinping's important speech, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", resolutely achieve the "two maintenances", and combine the implementation of the spirit of the conference with the in-depth development of thematic education to further stimulate The powerful motivation to do a good job in ecological and environmental protection work, solidly promote the construction of ecological civilization, and accelerate the construction of a beautiful China.
We must persistently fight the battle against pollution and promote the continuous improvement of ecological environment quality; Take green and low-carbon development as the fundamental solution, accelerate the formation of a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production methods, and lifestyle that saves resources and protects the environment; Adhere to the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, increase efforts in ecological protection and restoration, and improve the regulatory system for ecological protection and restoration; Aiming at established goals, actively and steadily promoting carbon peak and carbon neutrality, adhering to the principle of first establishing and then breaking through, and solidly promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of energy; Strengthening bottom line thinking, normalizing the control of ecological and environmental risks, and building a solid ecological security foundation for the construction of a beautiful China; Maintain a strict tone, conduct in-depth inspections and law enforcement supervision of ecological environment protection, and crack down severely on illegal behaviors in the ecological environment. All regions, departments, and units should strengthen organizational leadership, strictly implement responsibilities, strengthen support and guarantee, and ensure that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are implemented and effective.
Officials from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Zhejiang Province, Hubei Province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region delivered exchange speeches.
Members of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China, relevant leaders of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, State Councilors, President of the Supreme People's Court, Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and relevant leaders of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference attended the meeting.
The meeting was held in the form of a teleconference, with the main leaders of the Party and government of each province, region, city, and city specifically designated in the plan, as well as the main leaders of relevant departments of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The main leaders of relevant departments of central and state organs, relevant people's organizations, and military units, as well as leaders of some financial institutions and enterprises managed by the central government, attended the meeting.
