Make Beautiful China's "Appearance" Higher, Overseas Online Review: The First National Ecological Day Comes Ecology | China | Appearance
On April 30th, tourists were boating and relaxing in Xiaoyu Village, Shangsuan Town, Jinning District, south bank of Dianchi Lake.
On August 15th, China welcomed its first National Ecological Day, and various forms of ecological civilization promotion and education activities were carried out across the country. National Ecological Day is China's first festival with the theme of "ecology", highlighting the important position of China's ecological civilization construction in the new era, and will better awaken people's sense of achievement and pride in building a beautiful China.
Lay the foundation for green development and accelerate high-quality development in various regions. Relying on good ecological resources, Zixi County in Jiangxi Province vigorously develops ecological health tourism, and promotes local development with a "high aesthetic value" ecology; Located at the confluence of the Jinsha River, Minjiang River, and Yangtze River in Yibin City, Sichuan Province, the "chemical industry surrounding the river" has become a tidal flat and green bank. The former riverside chemical plants have extended their industries to new chemical materials and new energy battery materials, with new formats and new driving forces for development. There are countless vivid cases like this in China, and the rivers and mountains are even more colorful. The establishment of National Ecological Day reflects its pioneering, iconic, and unique characteristics, once again highlighting China's high attention to ecological environment protection and green development, and demonstrating its firm determination to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China. It is conducive to creating a strong atmosphere for the participation of the whole population in the national ecological environment construction and protection.
In the past decade of the new era, China's ecological environment protection has undergone historic, transitional, and global changes, and the construction of ecological civilization has achieved remarkable achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. China has taken the lead in proposing and implementing the ecological protection red line system, promoting the construction of the world's largest national park system. Over the past decade, 1/4 of the global increase in forest area has come from China; China's hydropower, wind power, solar power generation, and under construction nuclear power all have the world's largest installed capacity; The new energy vehicle industry is becoming a new business card for Chinese manufacturing, with over half of the world's new energy vehicles operating in China... The improvement of the ecological environment is not only supported by impressive data, but also reflected in the daily lives that the people can touch and feel. People generally feel that the sky is bluer, the ground is greener, and the water is clearer, resulting in a tangible sense of gain and happiness. From 2013 to 2022, while China's gross domestic product has doubled, the average concentration of PM2.5 has decreased by 57%, and the number of days of heavy pollution has decreased by 93%, making it the country with the fastest improvement rate in air quality globally. The average concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing has decreased from 89.5 micrograms/cubic meter in 2013 to 30 micrograms/cubic meter in 2022, and the number of days of heavy pollution has decreased from 58 days to only 3 days. It has been rated as the "miracle of Beijing" by the United Nations Environment Programme.
China's commitment to green development is not only a blessing for the Chinese nation, but also a blessing for the global ecological environment. The Earth is the only home on which humanity relies for survival. A developing country with a population of over 1.4 billion is moving towards a new era of ecological civilization and a socialist modernized country that is prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful. Its profound impact is self-evident. China has taken the initiative to assume the responsibility of a major country, demonstrated its great responsibility, and achieved a significant transformation from a participant in global environmental governance to a leader, contributing China's green development experience that can be used as a reference. Deeply participate in global climate governance, promote the conclusion and entry into force of the Paris Agreement, make major strategic decisions on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, promote the joint construction of the green "the Belt and Road", successfully hold the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands... China is committed to promoting the construction of a fair and reasonable global environmental governance system with win-win cooperation, and building a clean and beautiful world. Visiting Professor Asit Bisworth from the University of Glasgow in the UK said, "Every country has its own unique cultural and economic characteristics, and we need to find a development path that suits us. This is the greatest inspiration from China's green development experience."
The contribution of ecological civilization construction lies in the present and the benefits lie in the future. The establishment of National Ecological Day is just the beginning, which will help to enhance the awareness of ecological civilization in the whole society and enhance the ideological and action consciousness of the whole population in ecological environment protection. Looking ahead to the future, China's path of green development will become increasingly broad, making greater contributions to jointly building a community of life on Earth and promoting sustainable human development.
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