On January 12, the Economic Information Daily published an article "Blockbuster Document Release, Beautiful China Construction Goal Finalized". According to the article, on January 11, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") It is clear that by 2035, green production and lifestyle will be widely formed, carbon emissions will stabilize and decline after peaking, the ecological environment will be fundamentally improved, a new pattern of land and space development and protection will be fully formed, the stability and stability of ecosystem diversity will be significantly improved, the national ecological security will be more stable, the modernization of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity will be basically realized, and the goal of Beautiful China will be basically achieved.
The "Opinions" also put forward that looking forward to the middle of this century, the ecological civilization will be comprehensively improved, the green development mode and lifestyle will be fully formed, the key areas will achieve deep decarbonization, the ecological environment will be healthy and beautiful, the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity will be fully modernized, and the beautiful China will be fully completed.
"At present, China's economic and social development has entered a high-quality development stage of accelerating greening and low-carbonization, the construction of ecological civilization is still in a critical period of superimposed pressure and heavy burden, the structural, root cause and trend pressure of ecological environmental protection has not been fundamentally alleviated, the endogenous power of green transformation of economic and social development is insufficient, the foundation for the stability and improvement of ecological environment quality is not solid, the trend of ecosystem degradation in some regions has not been fundamentally reversed, and the task of building a beautiful China is still arduous. The "Opinions" pointed out.
Anchoring the goal of building a beautiful China, the "Opinions" also make arrangements for specific implementation methods and paths.
Accelerating the green transformation of development mode has been given top priority. Specifically, the "Opinions" pointed out that the boundaries of urban development should be strictly controlled and the connotative intensive green development of urban space should be promoted. Strict control of the shoreline space of rivers and lakes. Strengthen the management and control of marine and coastal land and space, establish a mechanism for withdrawing from inefficient sea use, and no new reclamation will be added except for major national projects. Improve the zoning and control system of the ecological environment covering the whole area, and "draw a clear bottom line" and "draw a boundary" for development.
At the same time, there are plans to implement the carbon peak action step by step, and strive to achieve carbon peak before 2030, laying the foundation for striving to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. The "Opinions" emphasize that it is necessary to further develop the national carbon market, steadily expand the coverage of the industry, enrich the varieties and methods of trading, and build and improve the national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction trading market. By 2035, the proportion of non-fossil energy in total energy consumption will be further increased, and a more effective, dynamic and internationally influential carbon market will be built.
Green and low-carbon development in key areas will be promoted in a coordinated manner. The "Opinions" put forward that we should vigorously promote the "road to rail" and "road to water", speed up the construction of special railway lines, and improve the level of clean transportation of bulk goods. Promote the green transformation and railway electrification transformation of railway stations, civil airports, ports and terminals, logistics parks, etc., and promote the large-scale application of ultra-low and near-zero emission vehicles and the clean and low-carbon application of non-road mobile machinery. By 2027, the proportion of new energy vehicles in the new vehicles will reach 45%, the old diesel locomotives will be basically eliminated, and the volume of container rail-water combined transportation in ports will maintain rapid growth, and by 2035, the proportion of railway freight turnover in the total turnover will reach about 25%.
In terms of continuing to promote pollution prevention and control, the battle to defend blue sky, clear water and pure land is still the focus. Taking the blue sky defense campaign as an example, the "Opinions" make it clear that by 2027, the national average concentration of fine particulate matter will be reduced to less than 28 micrograms per cubic meter, and cities at the local level and above will strive to meet the standard, and by 2035, the national concentration of fine particulate matter will be reduced to less than 25 micrograms per cubic meter, so that the air will always be fresh and the blue sky will always be there.
"The construction of ecological civilization is a fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. The release of the "Opinions" formulated the realization strategy for the construction of a beautiful China from the top level, put forward the whole-process governance measures covering the source, process and end links, and made specific arrangements in laying the foundation and building the system, pointing out the direction for the realization of a beautiful China. Dong Zhanfeng, deputy director of the Policy Institute of the Academy of Environmental Planning of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the "Opinions" adhere to precise pollution control, scientific pollution control, and pollution control in accordance with the law, according to the new needs of high-quality economic and social development, and the new expectations of the people for the improvement of the ecological environment, increase the efforts to solve outstanding ecological and environmental problems, and will accelerate the improvement of ecological environment quality from quantitative to qualitative change.