Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China (People's Daily)

Zhejiang Anji has accelerated the transformation of its development mode, transformed its ecological advantages into economic advantages, and turned lucid waters and lush mountains into gold and silver mountains. On the basis of the implementation of source control and pollution interception and rain and sewage diversion, Liuzhou, Guangxi Province has promoted environmental governance in the whole basin, shut down and transferred polluting enterprises, and continuously improved the water ecological environment. Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province has an iron fist to control haze, and has coordinated and promoted key tasks such as "pressure energy, coal reduction, enterprise management, dust reduction, and vehicle control", with more and more blue skies and white clouds...... The blue sky is clearer, the rivers and lakes are clearer, the living environment is more livable, and the beautiful pictures of beautiful mountains and rivers, blue sky and green land are spreading in the land of China.

"The environment is the people's livelihood, the green mountains are beautiful, and the blue sky is also happiness. "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has taken the construction of ecological civilization as a fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and has carried out a series of pioneering work, making major strides in the construction of a beautiful China. In 2023, the average concentration of PM2.5 in cities at and above the prefecture level will be 30 micrograms per cubic meter, a decrease of 16.7% from 2019, and the proportion of surface water quality with excellent quality will reach 89.4%, an increase of 1.5 percentage points year-on-year. Ecological protection has been continuously strengthened, with more than 3 million square kilometers of land area being included in the red line of ecological protection, and nearly 10,000 nature reserves of various levels and types have been established, the forest coverage rate has increased to 24.02%, and the reserves of "carbon pools" are getting larger and larger...... Through tenacious efforts, China's sky is bluer, the ground is greener, the water is clearer, and the rivers and mountains are more colorful. The achievements in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era have attracted worldwide attention and have become a significant symbol of the historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country in the new era. In the face of the people's new expectations for a better life and the new requirements for promoting high-quality development with high-level protection, the pace of building a beautiful China is still accelerating.

At the National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection held in July 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically deployed the strategic tasks and major measures to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, providing direction and fundamental guidance for further strengthening the protection of the ecological environment and promoting the construction of ecological civilization. The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized "deepening the construction of ecological civilization and green and low-carbon development".

To comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, we must fully implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee. The ecological environment is a major political issue related to the party's mission and purpose, and it is also a major social issue related to people's livelihood. Building a beautiful China is an important goal of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. "One point of deployment, nine points of implementation", carry forward the spirit of nailing, grasp the implementation to the letter, vigorously and resolutely grasp the implementation, seek truth and pragmatic implementation, dare to do good to grasp the implementation, in order to overcome the difficulties and turn the blueprint into reality.

To comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, we must fully understand the situation and tasks facing ecological and environmental protection. Ecological and environmental governance has a long way to go, and it cannot be achieved overnight. The structural, root cause, and trend pressures on China's ecological and environmental protection have not been fundamentally alleviated, and the industrial structure dominated by heavy chemical industry, the energy structure dominated by coal, and the transportation structure dominated by road freight have not fundamentally changed, and pollution emissions still exceed the environmental capacity on the whole. Since last year, the air quality in northern China has fluctuated, which is closely related to unfavorable meteorological conditions, but also shows that ecological and environmental governance is long-term and arduous.

To comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, we must always maintain the strategic determination to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization. At present, we are in an important period of the construction of a beautiful China, we must deeply understand and grasp the importance and urgency of the construction of ecological civilization and the strategic direction and target requirements of China's ecological civilization construction, persistently fight the battle of pollution prevention and control, aim at the established goals and actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, accelerate the formation of a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production mode and lifestyle that conserves resources and protects the environment, solidly promote the construction of ecological civilization, and accelerate the construction of a beautiful China.

The recently released "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China" makes systematic arrangements for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China in the new era and new journey. Thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and plan for development from the perspective of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, so as to build a beautiful China with green mountains, green water and fresh air, and realize the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.