Strengthen ecological environmental protection and comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China
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"At present, China's economic and social development has entered a high-quality development stage of accelerating greening and low-carbon, and the construction of ecological civilization is still in a critical period of superimposed pressure and heavy forward." On July 27, at the press conference on the theme of "The Beginning of the Authoritative Department" held by the State Council Information Office, Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, introduced the relevant situation of "strengthening ecological environmental protection and comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China" and answered questions from all walks of life.
High-quality development and high-level protection complement each other
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the National Conference on Ecological Environmental Protection that to continue to promote the construction of ecological civilization, we must be guided by the idea of socialist ecological civilization with Chinese characteristics in the new era and correctly handle several major relationships. The first is the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection.
How to understand the relationship between the two? Huang Runqiu believes that ecological and environmental protection work should be considered in the overall situation of implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development. "First of all, high-level protection is an important support for high-quality development, and it is also the meaning of it - without green environmental protection, it is not in line with the new development concept, let alone high-quality; Secondly, high-level protection can be achieved for high-quality development and the bottom line through such means as ecological environment zoning management and control and environmental impact assessment; Finally, high-level protection can promote the transformation and upgrading of industry, energy and transportation structures through pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergies and environmental standards, thereby forcing high-quality development. On the other hand, the results of high-quality development can promote the construction of ecological environmental protection projects and the development of environmental protection industries through policy tools such as increasing financial investment, developing green finance, and introducing ecological compensation mechanisms, thereby contributing to high-level protection. ”
"In the next step, we will handle the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, coordinate industrial restructuring, pollution control, ecological protection, and climate change, promote ecological priority, conservation and intensification, green and low-carbon development, and support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment." Huang Runqiu said.
According to local conditions, echelon to promote the construction of a beautiful China with full coverage
At the National Conference on Ecological Environmental Protection, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that we should comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China and accelerate the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. "The Ministry of Ecology and Environment will resolutely shoulder the political responsibility of ecological environmental protection and continue to promote the construction of a beautiful China." Huang Runqiu said.
It is reported that in terms of research and deployment, the ministry strengthens strategic planning and top-level design, continues to study the index system of beautiful China construction, anchors the goal of the basic completion of beautiful China by 2035, and makes strategic arrangements in stages. In terms of typical promotion, highlight "beauty" as the core orientation, organically combine the systematic solution of ecological and environmental problems with meeting the people's needs for a beautiful ecological environment and promoting the realization of the value of ecological products, so as to realize the beautiful rivers and lakes of "clear water and green banks, shallow bottom of fish" and beautiful bays with "clean water, clean beaches, gathering of fish and gulls, and harmony between people and seas", and publicize and popularize good experiences, good practices and good cases in various places. In terms of local practice, special guidance on promoting the construction of a beautiful China has been issued, and Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong and other provinces are all striving to explore the practice model of the construction of a beautiful China.
“今后五年是美丽中国建设的重要时期，我们将着力打造美丽蓝天、美丽河湖、美丽海湾、美丽山川，加快建设美丽中国先行区、美丽省份、美丽城市、美丽乡村，According to local conditions, echelon to promote the construction of a beautiful China with full coverage，营造共建共享美丽中国的生动画面。”黄润秋表示。
Achieve a major transformation from a participant to a leader in global environmental governance
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has closely followed the times and looked at the world, assumed the responsibility of a major country, demonstrated the responsibility of a major country, and achieved a major transformation from a participant in global environmental governance to a leader. Huang Runqiu introduced that the landmark achievements mainly include the following aspects:
First, deeply participate in global climate governance. "China adheres to multilateralism, adheres to the principles of fairness, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, promotes the conclusion, signing, entry into force and implementation of the Paris Agreement, and becomes an important force leading global climate action." China has also announced the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, announced that it will not build new overseas coal power projects, and launched and stably operated the world's largest carbon market, all of which demonstrate the responsibility of a responsible major country. ”
The second is to lead the global biodiversity governance process. "As China's presidency, it successfully hosted the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), promoted the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and opened a new chapter in global biodiversity governance. As one of the first countries to sign and ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity, China's biodiversity conservation goals have been achieved better than the global average. China has also taken the lead in investing 1.5 billion yuan to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund to support biodiversity conservation in developing countries. ”
The third is to promote global green and low-carbon development. "In recent years, China has vigorously promoted the development of renewable energy, and the installed scale of hydropower, wind power, solar power generation and nuclear power under construction is the first in the world. China has provided 50% of wind power equipment and 80% of photovoltaic module equipment to the world - it is precisely because of the technological progress and large-scale application of such renewable energy in our country that the cost of global renewable energy utilization has been greatly reduced. ”
The fourth is to jointly build a green "Belt and Road". "We have built the 'Belt and Road' ecological and environmental protection big data service platform, implemented the 'Green Silk Road Envoy Program', and trained more than 3,000 environmental managers, experts and scholars in more than 120 countries. At the same time, it carried out South-South cooperation on climate change along the Belt and Road, signed cooperation documents with 39 co-built countries, and helped them improve their ability to cope with climate change by assisting meteorological satellites and photovoltaic power generation systems. ”
Fifth, strengthen environmental management of overseas projects. "In the process of undertaking overseas projects, Chinese enterprises have introduced advanced environmental protection concepts. For example, during the construction of the Ghana Container Terminal Project, a 'Sea Turtle Breeding Center' was established to hatch and release more than 10,000 baby turtles; in order to protect the survival home of the elephant herd, the China-Laos Railway was built many times to extend the tunnel and replace the road with bridges. ”
"According to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, in the next step, we will continue to uphold the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, implement the global development, global security and global civilization initiatives, actively participate in global environmental governance, conscientiously implement international conventions, and make greater contributions to promoting sustainable development of mankind and building a clean and beautiful world." Huang Runqiu said.
(Beijing, July 27 -- Zhang Lei, reporter of this newspaper)
