Blockbuster Interpretation | What is the intrinsic relationship between the "five major relationships" and the "four major changes" and "six major tasks"?
At the 2023 National Conference on Ecological Environmental Protection, General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively put forward the "five major relationships" that need to be handled well in the new journey to promote the construction of ecological civilization, pointing out the direction and providing compliance for the construction of ecological civilization in the new era, and further deepening and expanding our party's understanding of the regularity of ecological civilization construction.
The "five major relationships" are the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, the relationship between key tackling and collaborative governance, the relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration, the relationship between external constraints and endogenous power, and the relationship between "dual carbon" commitment and independent action. This is not only a practical summary, but also a theoretical summary, containing a rich scientific world view and methodology, and an innovative development of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, with profound historical logic, theoretical logic, practical logic and internal logic, which must be understood completely, accurately and comprehensively.
The inheritance and development of the experience of ecological civilization construction in the new era
Paying attention to summing up experience is our party's fine tradition and political advantage, and it is also an important magic weapon for us to advance the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that our party has come step by step, and a very important point is to constantly sum up experience, improve skills, and constantly improve the ability to deal with risks, meet challenges, and turn dangers into disasters. The reason why China's modernization drive is great lies in the fact that it is difficult and cannot follow the old road, and if it wants to reach the level of a developed country, then the only way to do so is to take the road of scientific development. However, in a country with a huge population like ours, there is no precedent to follow and no ready-made road to build a modern society in which man and nature coexist in harmony.
Marxism holds that understanding comes from practice, and only through the cycle of practice, understanding, re-practice, and re-understanding can the sublimation of understanding be realized. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has placed the construction of ecological civilization in a prominent position in the overall work, and the construction of ecological civilization has undergone historic, turning and overall changes from theory to practice, and the construction of a beautiful China has taken major steps. At the National Conference on Ecological Environmental Protection, General Secretary Xi Jinping used the "four major changes", that is, from key rectification to systematic governance, from passive response to active action, from global environmental governance participants to leaders, and from practical exploration to scientific theoretical guidance, comprehensively summarized the great achievements of ecological civilization construction in the new era, and highly condensed the achievements of theoretical innovation, practical innovation and institutional innovation in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era. The "four major changes" are the major achievements made in following the objective laws of ecological civilization construction, which contains the success code of ecological civilization construction in the new era, and also contains the successful experience that must continue to be adhered to in the new journey, and is the historical basis and practical basis of the "five major relationships".
The "four major changes" embody the characteristics of interconnecting history and reality, combining theory and practice, and linking domestic and international relations, and are in the same line and interconnected with the "five major relationships". In the decade of the new era, we pay more attention to the use of system concepts, combining points and areas, treating both the symptoms and the root causes, and promoting the construction of ecological civilization in an all-round, all-regional, and whole-process manner; Show that the responsibility of a major country promotes the joint construction of a clean and beautiful world; pay more attention to theoretical guidance, systematically form Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, and provide fundamental compliance and action guidelines. From the perspective of content, key tackling and collaborative governance, external constraints and endogenous power, "dual carbon" commitment and independent action, high-quality development and high-level protection, natural restoration and artificial restoration are the inheritance and development from key remediation to system governance, passive response to active action, global environmental governance participants to leaders, and practical exploration to scientific theoretical guidance, respectively. On the new journey, we must inherit, apply and develop the successful experience and regular understanding that have been accumulated in the past ten years in the new era, and promote the continuous in-depth development of the theory and practice of ecological civilization construction.
The innovative development of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought
Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization is the fundamental compliance and action guide for China's ecological civilization construction in the new era. As the concentrated embodiment of contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st century Marxism in the field of ecological civilization, Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought has an open and epochal theoretical character, and advancing with the times is its internal characteristic and the secret of its eternal vitality and vitality. From "green mountains and green waters are priceless treasures" to "green waters and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", from "six principles" to "eight insistences" and then to "ten insistences", Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought has been continuously enriched and improved in the practice of advancing with the times. The "Five Major Relationships" is not only the embodiment of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought to guide the valuable experience of ecological civilization construction in the new era in the past ten years, but also enriches and develops this idea with a series of important original contents.
The "five major relationships" have further deepened and expanded our party's understanding of the laws of ecological civilization construction. Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization systematically explains the relationship between man and nature, protection and development, environment and people's livelihood, domestic and international, and systematically answers major theoretical and practical questions such as why to build ecological civilization, what kind of ecological civilization to build, and how to build ecological civilization, which is a scientific world view and methodology. Theory comes from practice, practice has no end, and there is no end to theoretical innovation. On the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "grasp well the relationship between the overall situation and the partial, the current and the long-term, the macro and the micro, the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction, and the special and the general." The "five major relationships" embody the profound grasp of the new characteristics and new problems of China's ecological civilization construction on the new journey, embody the Marxist materialist dialectical thinking method, and are the concrete embodiment of the above relationships on the new journey of ecological civilization, the deepening of the understanding of what kind of ecological civilization to build and how to build ecological civilization, and the innovative grasp of the top-level design and specific practice, strategy and strategy of ecological civilization construction. The new concept further enriches Xi's thinking on ecological civilization.
The "Five Major Relationships" further improved the theoretical system of Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization. Correctly handling the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection is an inevitable requirement for China to enter a new stage of green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, and the evolution and development of the relationship between protection and development. Correctly handling the relationship between tackling key problems and coordinating management is the organic unity of adhering to the two-point theory and the key theory, and embodies the inevitable requirement of grasping the main contradictions and grasping the main aspects of the contradictions. The relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration embodies the dialectical unity of respecting objective laws and giving full play to human subjective initiative. The relationship between external constraints and endogenous dynamics reflects the relationship between external and internal factors that are dialectically unified, interconnected, and mutually transformed. The relationship between the "dual carbon" commitment and independent action reflects the scientific methodology of seeking progress while maintaining stability, and is also an inevitable requirement for coordinating development and security, domestic and international relations. From the perspective of nature, the "five major relationships" correspond to the deepening of the understanding of the main theme, concept and method, principle and policy, dynamic conditions and strategic nature of ecological civilization construction. In terms of content, the "five major relationships" correspond to green development, pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, the safety bottom line and guarantee system of Beautiful China, "dual carbon" and climate change response. Among them, the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection occupies a leading position in the overall control and management, reflecting the overall, fundamental and long-term nature. The "Five Major Relationships" contain the profound dialectics, strategic directions, strategic paths and scientific thinking methods for promoting the construction of ecological civilization and the construction of a beautiful China in the new era and new journey, which is a further enriched development of the "Ten Persistences", full of original academic philosophy and philosophy, forming a logical and rigorous whole from theory to practice, and is the concentrated embodiment of Xi Jinping's new creation, new development and new achievements of ecological civilization thought.
Scientific guidance for the construction of ecological civilization in the new journey
Answering and guiding the solution of problems is the fundamental task of theory. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the theories used to observe, grasp and lead the times must reflect the voice of the times, must not be divorced from the practice of the times, and must constantly sum up practical experience and condense it into the ideological essence of the times. In the decade of the new era, China's ecological civilization construction has made remarkable achievements, providing a solid foundation for the new journey. However, at the same time, the construction of ecological civilization in China is still in a critical period of superimposed pressure and heavy burden, and the construction of ecological civilization is still facing many new situations and new problems on the new journey. On the basis of continuing to promote theoretical innovation, we need to correctly understand and deal with the "five major relationships", plan and promote the ecological and environmental protection work of the new journey with a higher position, a wider vision and greater efforts, and realize practical innovation.
The "five major relationships" are an inevitable requirement for the development of practice. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward that Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and that respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature are the inherent requirements of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. This puts forward higher requirements for the construction of ecological civilization on the new journey. From the perspective of the situation, China is in the case of a huge population, in the case of industrial structure and energy structure transformation tasks are still very heavy, in the case of total pollutants and carbon emissions are still high, in the case of environmental protection historical debts have not been paid off, and in the case of the global environmental governance situation is becoming more complex, to build a modern harmonious coexistence between man and nature. We need to grasp the eternal theme of human and nature as the development of human society and the theme of the times of greening and low-carbonization, handle the relationship between protection and development with a development perspective and higher standards, and at the same time pay more attention to the system concept, pay more attention to respecting the law, pay more attention to stimulating endogenous power, and pay more attention to the overall development and security, as well as the relationship between domestic and international.
The "Five Major Relationships" are the scientific guidelines for the "Six Major Tasks". The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that the overall deployment of ecological civilization construction in the new journey is the overall deployment of the construction of ecological civilization in the new journey, and it is also the practical orientation of the "five major relationships". General Secretary Xi Jinping deployed six major tasks at the National Conference on Ecological Environmental Protection, namely, continuing to fight the battle against pollution, accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of development methods, focusing on improving the stability and sustainability of ecosystem diversity, actively and steadily promoting carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, guarding the bottom line of building a beautiful China, and improving the guarantee system for the construction of a beautiful China, which is a further deepening and implementation of the deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. From a practical point of view, among the "five major relationships", high-quality development and high-level protection, key tackling and coordinated governance, natural restoration and artificial restoration, "dual carbon" commitment and independent action correspond to growth, pollution reduction, green expansion and carbon reduction, that is, green and low-carbon transformation, pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, "dual carbon" and climate change response, respectively, and external constraints and endogenous power correspond to the bottom line of the construction of a beautiful China, improve the guarantee system for the construction of a beautiful China, and realize the unity of top-level design and specific practice.
On the new journey, we must profoundly grasp the rich connotation of the "five major relationships" and the practical requirements of the strategic direction, strategic path and scientific thinking and methods contained in it, adhere to and make good use of the Marxist position, viewpoint and method that run through it, and constantly create a new situation in the construction of ecological civilization on the new journey.
Author's affiliation: Xi Jinping Ecological Civilization Thought Research Center, Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment
