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Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and five other departments jointly released the newly revised "Ten Norms for Citizen Ecological Environment Behavior", which includes ten contents such as caring for the ecological environment, saving energy and resources, practicing green consumption, choosing low-carbon travel, sorting and disposing of garbage, and participating in environmental protection practices. This grounded and highly actionable new "Ten Principles for Citizens" provides practical standards for regulating citizens' ecological and environmental behavior, and also deepens the concept of ecological and environmental protection into people's hearts.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that nature is the basic condition for human survival and development. Respecting, adapting to, and protecting nature is essential for building China into a modern socialist country in all respects. Ecological environment protection is a complex and systematic project, and relying solely on the efforts of the government and enterprises is not enough. It requires the cohesion of social consensus and the participation of the public to form a joint force. Therefore, it is imperative to promote the public to "protect the ecological environment like they protect their eyes, and consciously become model practitioners of the concept of ecological civilization.".
Firstly, to regulate ecological behavior, we need to start with changing our mindset. The contents mentioned in the new "Ten Principles of Citizenship", such as "understanding ecological environment policies, regulations, and information", "improving one's own ecological civilization literacy", and "firmly establishing ecological values", all emphasize the importance of cultivating citizens' sense of environmental responsibility. Establishing awareness of ecological and environmental protection can enable every citizen to clearly recognize their role and responsibility in ecological and environmental protection, truly internalize in their hearts and externalize in their actions, and consciously practice ecological and environmental protection responsibilities.
Secondly, regulating ecological and environmental behavior requires adhering to the bottom line and striving for the top line. We must always be vigilant about the bottom line issues raised in the new "Ten Principles of Citizenship", such as "not burning garbage in the open air" and "not dumping sewage at will". When facing problems with the ecological environment and energy use, we must adhere to doing something and not doing anything. At the same time, the construction of ecological civilization cannot be limited to a single moment, but should be achieved for a long time. This requires us to continuously improve our moral standards for environmental protection. For example, advocating for "reasonable setting of air conditioning temperature", "renovation and utilization of idle items or exchange of donations", starting from small things in daily life, and cultivating a moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyle.
Once again, regulating ecological and environmental behavior requires joint efforts from multiple parties to better play the role of social supervision. The implementation of norms not only relies on the individual consciousness of citizens, but also requires relevant departments to improve the enthusiasm of citizens to participate in ecological and environmental behavior from a specific practical perspective. Around ecological issues of concern to the public, actively promote ecological knowledge, and promote a wider range of people to participate in ecological and environmental behavior norms through organizing ecological and environmental volunteer services. At the same time, every citizen should also have a sense of ownership. In the face of uncivilized phenomena or illegal behaviors in ecological environment protection, they should promptly stop and report to relevant departments, so as to jointly unite a strong force in ecological environment protection.
In short, the environment is people's livelihood, the green mountains are beautiful, and the blue sky is also happiness. A good ecological environment is the most fair public good and also the most inclusive welfare for people's livelihood. In the construction of ecological civilization, it is necessary for everyone to take action, fulfill their responsibilities, consciously cultivate ecological civilization awareness, be practitioners and inheritors of ecological civilization, and gather more strength for the construction of a beautiful China.