Comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, and accelerate the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature
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") was recently released, which makes systematic arrangements for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China, clarifies the overall requirements, key tasks and major measures, and is a programmatic document to guide the comprehensive promotion of the construction of a beautiful China. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, accurately grasp the mission and tasks of building a beautiful China, and resolutely implement the "Opinions" to ensure that the goal of a beautiful China is achieved as scheduled.
Fully understand the great significance of building a beautiful China
Building a Beautiful China is a major strategic deployment made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, focusing on the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, the overall situation of modernization, and conforming to the expectations of the people for a better life. In the new era and new journey, it is of great significance for China to achieve high-quality development and build a modern socialist country in an all-round way by placing the construction of a beautiful China in a prominent position in the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation, and accelerating the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Building a beautiful China is an important goal of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. Chinese modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, emphasizing respecting nature, conforming to nature, protecting nature, and simultaneously promoting the construction of material civilization and ecological civilization. The construction of a beautiful China is related to the overall situation of high-quality development and the realization of the second centenary goal as scheduled, and will run through the whole process of Chinese-style modernization. We must adhere to the principle that man and nature are a community of life, take the path of civilized development with production development, affluent life and good ecology, and comprehensively promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with the construction of a beautiful China.
Building a beautiful China is an important part of realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern times, and its essence is to realize the prosperity and strength of the country, the rejuvenation of the nation, and the happiness of the people. The ecological environment is the foundation of human survival and development, and the prosperity of ecology leads to the prosperity of civilization. We must comprehensively strengthen the construction of a beautiful China, put the construction of ecological civilization in a prominent position, combine nature with civilization, make the natural ecology more tranquil, harmonious and beautiful under the modern human social governance system, let the people enjoy the great wealth of material civilization and spiritual civilization in the beautiful natural ecological environment, and build a solid ecological foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Building a beautiful China is an inevitable requirement to meet the people's growing needs for a better life. The environment is the people's livelihood, and a good ecological environment is the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being. With China's economic and social development and the improvement of the people's living standards, the broad masses of the people are eagerly looking forward to a good production and living environment, and the people's growing needs for a beautiful ecological environment have become an important part of the main contradiction in China's society. We must conform to the people's yearning for a better life, continue to improve the quality of the ecological environment, provide more high-quality ecological products, and let the people share the beauty of nature, life and life in the lucid waters and green mountains.
Building a Beautiful China is China's contribution to building a clean and beautiful world. Building a beautiful homeland is the common dream of mankind. In the face of global ecological and environmental challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, mankind is a community with a shared future of both prosperity and loss. We must uphold the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, assume the responsibilities of a major country, lead the process of global environmental governance with the construction of a beautiful China, and contribute China's wisdom and strength to building a clean and beautiful world and achieving stronger, greener and healthier global development.
Accurately grasp the overall requirements of the construction of a beautiful China
Combined with the new situation and new challenges, the "Opinions" put forward the overall requirements for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China, which need to be systematically, comprehensively and accurately understood and grasped around the promotion of local and global coordination, the integration of symptomatic and root causes, and the combination of current and long-term.
In the overall direction, it is necessary to accelerate the formation of a new pattern of building a beautiful China. Focusing on the implementation of the deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection, the "Opinions" clearly state that it is necessary to correctly handle the relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection, key tackling and collaborative governance, natural restoration and artificial restoration, external constraints and endogenous power, "dual carbon" commitment and independent action, coordinate industrial structure adjustment, pollution control, ecological protection, and response to climate change, and coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, and green expansion. Growth, support high-quality development with a high-quality ecological environment, and accelerate the formation of a new pattern of building a beautiful China oriented to the realization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
On the main goal, it is necessary to anchor the target requirements of three time nodes. The "Opinions" closely follow the requirements of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the construction of a beautiful China in the next five years, by 2035 and by the middle of this century, focus on the fundamental improvement of the ecological environment and the basic realization of the goal of a beautiful China by 2035, and put forward a three-stage ecological environment governance path in combination with the current structural, root cause and trend characteristics of China's ecological environmental protection, as well as the international and domestic situation, namely, the "14th Five-Year Plan" to tackle key problems in depth and achieve continuous improvement of the ecological environment; the "15th Five-Year Plan" to consolidate and expand to achieve comprehensive improvement of the ecological environment; and the "16th Five-Year Plan" The overall improvement has achieved a fundamental improvement in the ecological environment. After three or five years of hard work, step by step, we have made long-term efforts to promote the improvement of the quality of the ecological environment and achieve a change from quantitative to qualitative change.
In terms of construction and deployment, it is necessary to strengthen the strategic arrangements in four aspects. The "Opinions" emphasize the promotion of green and low-carbon economic and social development, and accelerate the transformation of energy, industry, transportation, urban and rural construction, agriculture and other fields; with the construction of the Beautiful China Pilot Zone as the traction, we will promote the all-round improvement of beautiful blue skies, beautiful rivers and lakes, beautiful bays, beautiful mountains and rivers, beautiful cities and beautiful villages in stages and batches; promote the construction of beautiful China in the west, northeast, central and eastern regions according to local conditions and echelons; Clean and zero-carbon lead the action, and transform the construction of a beautiful China into the consciousness of the whole society.
Solidly promote the key tasks of building a beautiful China
The "Opinions" aim at the goal of building a beautiful China in the next five years and by 2035, and clarify the key tasks of comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. It is necessary to adhere to goal-oriented and problem-oriented, turn the roadmap into construction drawings, and ensure that the goal of Beautiful China is achieved as scheduled.
Continue to promote pollution prevention and control. Maintain strength, extend depth, expand breadth, and continue to fight the battle of blue sky, clear water, and pure land. With the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and its surrounding areas, the Yangtze River Delta, the Fenwei Plain and other key areas as the main battlefield, and the control of fine particulate matter as the main line, we will promote the coordinated emission reduction of multiple pollutants. Coordinate the management of water resources, water environment, and water ecology, and promote the protection and comprehensive management of major rivers, important lakes, and key sea areas. Carry out actions to prevent and control soil pollution sources. Accelerate the construction of "zero-waste cities" and implement new pollutant treatment actions.
Accelerate the green transformation of development mode. Optimize the pattern of land space development and protection, and improve the zoning management and control system of the ecological environment. There are plans to implement the carbon peak action step by step, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, carry out multi-field and multi-level collaborative innovation pilots for pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and further develop the national carbon market. Vigorously develop strategic emerging industries, high-tech industries, green environmental protection industries, and modern service industries, promote the "road to rail" and "road to water", and resolutely curb the blind launch of high-energy-consumption, high-emission, and low-level projects. Implement a comprehensive conservation strategy and comprehensively improve the efficiency of resource utilization.
Improve the stability and sustainability of ecosystem diversity. Comprehensively promote the construction of a system of nature reserves with national parks as the main body, and accelerate the implementation of major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems and biodiversity conservation. Strengthen unified supervision of ecological protection and restoration, carry out monitoring and evaluation of ecological conditions and evaluation of the effectiveness of ecological protection and restoration, improve mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products, and promote protection and compensation for key ecological function areas, ecological protection red lines, and important ecosystems.
Firmly guard the bottom line of safety in the construction of a beautiful China. Efforts should be made to improve the national ecological security risk assessment, monitoring and early warning, emergency response and disposal capabilities. We will build a modern nuclear safety regulatory system that is compatible with the development of China's nuclear industry, and promote the high-quality development of nuclear safety. Strengthen biosecurity management. Strengthen climate change monitoring, prediction, early warning, and impact risk assessment. Promote the normalized management of environmental risks, and do a good job in the investigation and risk prevention and control of environmental hazards in key areas such as hazardous waste, tailings ponds, and heavy metals.
Create a demonstration model for the construction of a beautiful China. From the regional, local, and social levels, in accordance with the principle of phased, batch, and rolling implementation, the "Beautiful Series" construction action will be promoted in an orderly manner. Priority will be given to the construction of the Beautiful China Pilot Zone, focusing on major regional strategies such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta region, and the Yellow River Basin, and forming a number of demonstration models on a pilot basis. We will carry out in-depth demonstration areas for the construction of ecological civilization and the establishment of practice and innovation bases for "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", and actively build beautiful cities and beautiful villages with their own beauty and beauty.
Carry out the national action to build a beautiful China. Cultivate and promote ecological culture, advocate simple and moderate, green and low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyles and consumption patterns, and make green travel, water and electricity saving, "disc action", garbage classification and other habits become habits. We will continue to carry out a series of activities called "Beautiful China, I am an Actor", give full play to the role of industry associations and chambers of commerce as a bridge and the role of mass organizations, and promote the formation of a social atmosphere in which everyone, everything, all the time, and everywhere advocate ecological civilization.
Improve the guarantee system for the construction of a beautiful China. Deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system and implement the strictest ecological and environmental governance system. Improve the market-oriented allocation system of resources and environmental factors, and explore financial support models for regional environmental protection construction projects. Build a market-oriented green technology innovation system to support the transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements. Deepen the application of digital technology, build a beautiful China, and build a digital governance system. Accelerate the implementation of projects such as synergy in pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and improvement of environmental quality. Adhere to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and jointly build a clean and beautiful world.
Efforts should be made to implement the "Opinions".
We must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", and make every effort to implement the "Opinions" with a high degree of ideological consciousness, political consciousness, and action consciousness to ensure that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are effective.
Strengthen organizational leadership. Adhere to and strengthen the party's overall leadership, and improve the working mechanism of the central government's overall planning, the province's overall responsibility, and the city's and county's implementation. We will further promote the central ecological and environmental protection inspection, and take the construction of a beautiful China as the focus of the inspection. Formulate regulations on the responsibility system for ecological and environmental protection for local party and government leading cadres, and establish a responsibility system that covers a comprehensive scale, has consistent powers and responsibilities, and has clear rewards and punishments, and is interlocking.
Improve implementation mechanisms. Promote the formulation of action plans in different fields, and accelerate the formation of an implementation system and implementation mechanism for the construction of a beautiful China. Supporting measures have been introduced to refine and implement policy measures, and to strengthen fiscal, tax, financial, and price policy support for major projects.
Strengthen publicity and promotion. We will continue to deepen Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and theoretical research, study and publicity, institutional innovation, practice promotion and international dissemination, and promote the integration of ecological civilization education into the cadre education, Party member education, and national education system.
Carry out assessment and evaluation. Research and formulate the evaluation index system and assessment methods for the effectiveness of the construction of a beautiful China, and transition the assessment of the effectiveness of pollution prevention and control to the assessment of the effectiveness of the construction of a beautiful China in a timely manner.
(The authors are Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, respectively)
