The World Significance of the "Ten Million Project" in China | Ecological Environment | Significance

Over the past 20 years, the "Ten Million Project" has been continuously upgraded, iterated, optimized and improved, demonstrating strong vitality and achieving significant achievements. In 2018, the "Ten Million Project" was awarded the highest environmental honor by the United Nations - the "Earth Guardian Action and Incentives Award". It can be said that the influence of the "Ten Million Project" is global, providing Chinese solutions for countries around the world to explore the path of rural revitalization, contributing Chinese strength to global ecological environment governance, and bringing Chinese experience to explore sustainable development models for mankind.

The "Ten Million Project" provides a Chinese solution for countries around the world to explore the path of rural revitalization

The increase in the proportion of cities and the decrease in the proportion of townships are objective laws in the process of modernization. With industrialization and urbanization, the decline of rural areas has become a global phenomenon, especially since the mid-20th century, both developed and developing countries have faced development challenges such as accelerated population outflow, lack of investment, reduced employment opportunities, inadequate public services, and disintegration of rural social life in rural areas. Rural revitalization is a major task in achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.The "Ten Million Project" is a microcosm of the significant achievements made in China's rural revitalization work. The "Ten Million Project" takes environmental improvement as the starting point to drive the overall transformation of rural areas, drawing a picture of rural revitalization with prosperous industries, livable ecology, civilized rural culture, effective governance, and affluent living. It promotes the return of migrant workers to their hometowns for employment and entrepreneurship, and attracts tourists from other places to travel, live, work, and invest. For the past 20 years, Zhejiang has persistently implemented the "Ten Million Project", achieving synchronous improvement of ecological, economic, and social benefits. With a "green mountains and rivers" ecological environment, it has attracted talents, technology, capital and other production factors to gather in rural areas, which has greatly promoted rural revitalization and paved the way for rural modernization development with Chinese characteristics.

The "Ten Million Project" has contributed Chinese strength to global ecological environment governance

Human and nature are a community of life, and a good ecological environment is the foundation for human survival and health. Respecting, conforming to, and protecting nature are prerequisites for economic and social development. Engels once said, "We should not be overly intoxicated with our human victory over nature. For every such victory, nature retaliates against us." In the history of human development, especially in the process of industrialization, there have been a large number of events that have destroyed natural resources and the ecological environment. Over the past 200 years of the Industrial Revolution, the contradiction between human activities and nature has become increasingly acute. Due to excessive exploitation and utilization of natural resources, global ecological, environmental, and resource problems such as resource depletion, air pollution, land desertification, groundwater system destruction, climate change, glacier melting, and rising sea levels have occurred continuously. From the 1930s to the 1960s, environmental pollution incidents in developed Western countries continued to occur, attracting widespread attention from the international community, resulting in significant casualties and significant economic and property losses. While industrial civilization has brought superior living conditions to humanity, the global ecological environment has rapidly deteriorated, and the ecological deficit continues to expand. China is a responsible developing country and an active participant in global ecological environment governance. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has placed the construction of a beautiful China in a prominent position in the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation, continuously increasing investment in ecological environment governance, protection, and restoration. In a relatively short period of time, some Western countries have achieved decades of environmental governance results. The "Ten Million Project" has comprehensively promoted environmental pollution control, shut down polluting enterprises, restored mountains and forests, and renovated rivers, creating thousands of beautiful rural areas. Over the past 20 years, the ecological environment in rural Zhejiang has been continuously improved, with bluer skies and clearer water, greatly promoting harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

The "Ten Million Project" brings Chinese experience to explore sustainable development models for humanity

Finding a balance between development and environmental sustainability is a common challenge faced by countries around the world. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasizes that "promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is a key link to achieving high-quality development." Taking the path of ecological priority, green development, and sustainable development is a key move to solve the shortcomings of China's economic and social development. Green mountains and clear waters are not only natural wealth, but also social and economic wealth. The governance of the ecological environment should not hinder the reasonable needs of developing countries to eliminate poverty and improve people's living standards.The construction of ecological civilization and economic growth both have contradictions and can be unified with each other. As long as we find the right direction and create conditions, we can continuously bring "mountains of gold and silver" to the green mountains and clear waters. The "Ten Million Project" is a great project that benefits the people. Through environmental protection, restoration, and governance, it creates new driving forces and advantages for economic and social development. Over the past 20 years, rural areas in Zhejiang have made "green mountains and clear waters" the greatest wealth, greatest advantage, and greatest brand for green development. In 2022, Anji County, Zhejiang Province achieved a regional GDP of 58.24 billion yuan, creating 10% of the national bamboo industry output value with 1.8% of the country's bamboo production. Further transform the distinctive advantages of "green mountains and clear waters" into "golden mountains and silver mountains", injecting momentum into promoting better global sustainable development.

[This is the phased achievement of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education "Research on the Overseas Communication Mechanism of the Image of the CPC from the Perspective of International Discourse Power"]