Article: Deeply understand and grasp the three major issues of comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China

The National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection emphasized that comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China and accelerating the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature sounded the clarion call of the times to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China. On November 7, the third meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform deliberated and adopted the "Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China", which made systematic arrangements for comprehensively promoting the construction of a Beautiful China. Comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China is of great significance and far-reaching impact, which requires us to clarify some major issues in thought and action, and deeply understand and grasp the rich connotation, strategic implications and practical requirements contained in them.

Why should the construction of a beautiful China be placed in a prominent position in the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation?

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at this year's National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection: "Put the construction of a beautiful China in a prominent position in the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation." This is a major judgment and major deployment made from a historical, overall and strategic perspective, which profoundly expounds the strategic position and great significance of comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China on the new journey, demarcates the historical orientation of comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China, and marks a more prominent position and a more significant role in the overall work of the party and the country.

The intrinsic requirements for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism with all-round development and progress. A beautiful ecological environment is an indispensable and important part of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the people's growing demand for a beautiful ecological environment has become an important part of the main contradiction in China's society. The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) incorporated ecological civilization into the overall layout of the "five-in-one" cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to build a beautiful China, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "jointly promote the prosperity of the country, the prosperity of the people, and the beauty of China", and the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made it clear that promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature is the distinctive feature and essential requirement of Chinese modernization. At the same time, China is still in the initial stage of socialism, and there is no precedent for building an ecological civilization. We must adhere to the overall situation and strategy of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, adhere to the basic strategy of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, and continue to write a new chapter of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era with new practices and new achievements.

An important goal of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. To build a modern and powerful country, beauty is not only an important goal, but also an important support. On the one hand, Chinese modernization is the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and the ecological environment has become increasingly prominent in the happiness index of the people's life, and the beautiful ecological environment has become an important part of a high-quality and beautiful life. On the other hand, China's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development that accelerates green and low-carbon, and the supporting role of the ecological environment is becoming more and more obvious. In addition, green, circular and low-carbon development is the direction of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in today's era, the most promising development field, and the focus of current competition. We must deeply grasp that high-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is the key link to achieve high-quality development, adapt to the new changes in the development environment at home and abroad, and promote higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable and safer development in order to build a beautiful China.

It is an inevitable requirement to comprehensively promote 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. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward that from now on, the central task of our Party is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to build a great modern socialist country in an all-round way, realize the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. On the one hand, building a beautiful China is an important part of realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and on the other hand, the Chinese nation must have the guarantee of the ecological environment for its endless survival. History and reality tell us that it is unsustainable and unfeasible for a big country like ours to achieve modernization and follow the old path of Europe and the United States to consume resources and pollute the environment. From the strategic and historical height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, we must comprehensively promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with the construction of a beautiful China, provide more high-quality ecological products for the people, leave a green bank for future generations, and embark on a civilized development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology.

Why is the next five years an important period for the construction of a beautiful China?

The next five years will be an important period for the construction of a beautiful China, which is a major judgment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, profoundly grasping the world conditions, national conditions and the new situation of ecological civilization construction. This important judgment has a solid theoretical foundation and practical basis, contains far-reaching strategic considerations, demarcates the coordinates of the times for the construction of a beautiful China in the next five years, and provides a strategic basis for the construction of a beautiful China on the new journey.

The next five years will be an important period for the future. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that the next five years will be a critical period for the start of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. The development of the next five years is crucial to the realization of the second centenary goal. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposed that in the next five years, the living environment in urban and rural areas will be significantly improved, and the construction of a beautiful China will achieve remarkable results; by 2035, green production and lifestyles will be widely formed, carbon emissions will be stable and moderate after peaking, the ecological environment will be fundamentally improved, and the goal of a beautiful China will be basically achieved; by the middle of this century, a beautiful China will be built. From remarkable results to basic realization and then to completion, the roadmap for the construction of a beautiful China has been clearly outlined. On the whole, we only have more than 20 years left before the second centenary goal. The construction of ecological civilization is long-term and arduous, and it cannot be achieved overnight, nor can it be achieved once and for all. The realization of the goal of building a beautiful China in the next five years will not only directly determine the overall process of the overall goal of a beautiful China, but also affect the overall situation of high-quality development and the overall situation of the second centenary goal.

The next five years will be an important period for climbing. The construction of ecological civilization in China is still in a critical period of superimposed pressure and heavy burden. On the one hand, China's national conditions of high resource pressure, limited environmental capacity, and fragile ecosystems have not changed, pollutants and carbon emissions are still high, there are still many historical debts in environmental protection, and at the same time, the needs of the people and the requirements for the construction of a beautiful China are getting higher and higher. On the other hand, China is still in the stage of in-depth development of industrialization and urbanization, and the problems of heavy industrial structure, coal-biased energy structure, and highway transportation structure have not been fundamentally changed, and the structural, root-cause, and trend pressures on ecological and environmental protection have not been fundamentally alleviated. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China has entered a critical period of focusing on carbon reduction, promoting the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and realizing the improvement of ecological environment quality from quantitative to qualitative change. However, the foundation for the stability and improvement of the ecological environment is not stable, and the difficulty of continuous improvement of the ecological environment has increased significantly.

The next five years will be an important period to cross the threshold. In 2022, China's per capita GDP will reach $12,741. On the one hand, the conditions are already in place to enter the stage of the inverted U-shaped curve of the environmental Kuznets curve. But on the other hand, it has also entered a critical period of overcoming the middle-income trap. Whether we can seize the opportunity of green transformation and how to better coordinate development and security are major issues at present. From a global point of view, the current world is in a new period of turbulence and change, instability, uncertainty, unpredictable have become the norm, while the world's major developed countries to accelerate the layout of green technology, green industrial revolution frontier, whether China can maintain the existing advantages in green development and further expand, the next five years is a critical window period. From a domestic point of view, China's energy resources are highly dependent on foreign countries, and at the same time face the pressure of demand contraction, supply shock, expected weakening and the risk of "low-end transfer of industry, high-end extrusion".

What does it mean to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China?

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed for the first time to strive to build a beautiful China, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China for the first time included the beautiful China in the goal of a modern socialist power, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized the promotion of the construction of a beautiful China, and this year's National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection proposed to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China. From hard work to comprehensive advancement, it reflects the continuous deepening of understanding and the continuous strengthening of deployment.

Comprehensive promotion means the extension of the field and the expansion of depth. There are still problems in China's ecological and environmental protection, such as insufficient governance capacity, insufficient improvement level, and insufficient scope of governance. Taking the water environment as an example, although the major rivers and main rivers have achieved remarkable results, there are still large gaps in secondary rivers and tributaries. Another example is that remarkable results have been achieved in urban governance, but there are still major shortcomings in rural areas. This requires us to continue to work hard in a larger region, at a deeper level and in a wider field, maintain strength, extend depth and breadth, and promote the construction of a beautiful China in all directions, regions and processes. This year's National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection has deployed six major tasks, including continuing to fight the tough battle against pollution, accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of development mode, focusing on improving the stability and sustainability of ecosystem diversity, actively and steadily promoting carbon peak and carbon neutrality, guarding the bottom line of the construction of a beautiful China, and improving the guarantee system for the construction of a beautiful China.

Advancing in an all-round way means raising requirements and raising standards. Although great strides have been made in building a beautiful China, there is still a big gap between it and the expectations of the people, the needs of economic and social development, and the requirements of ecological civilization construction. Comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China means that we must anchor the goals of fundamental improvement of the ecological environment, green becoming a universal form of high-quality development, harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and realization of a beautiful China, promote the construction of a beautiful China with higher standards, higher requirements and higher levels, and accelerate the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that in the next five years, it is necessary to basically eliminate heavily polluted weather and urban black and odorous water bodies. This year's National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection emphasized that we should fight several beautiful landmark battles, accelerate the formation of green production methods and lifestyles, broaden the path of transforming lucid waters and lush mountains into gold and silver mountains, build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, effectively safeguard ecological security, nuclear and radiation safety, and do a good job in the rule of law, market, science and technology, and policy "combination punch". From the system, the overall situation, the field and the stage have clarified the goal of building a beautiful China on the new journey.

Advancing comprehensively means the complexity of the process and the system of measures. The construction of ecological civilization has entered the deep water area, which is not only a specific work in the field of environmental protection, but a comprehensive work involving economic and social development, and it is increasingly necessary to use the system concept. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, coordinate the adjustment of industrial structure, pollution control, ecological protection, and respond to climate change, and coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth. At this year's National Conference on Ecological Environmental Protection, General Secretary Xi Jinping used the "five major relationships" to provide scientific guidance for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China on the new journey. We must unify our thoughts, wills, and actions into the party's decision-making and deployment, deeply study and implement Xi Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, anchor the goal of building a beautiful China, strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, and overall advancement, effectively enhance the systematic, integral, and collaborative nature of work, and promote the goal of a beautiful China step by step into reality through specific actions.

Author's affiliation: Xi Jinping Ecological Civilization Thought Research Center, Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment