【New ideas lead a new journey】Strive to write a new chapter of ecological civilization in the new era

　　Today (August 15) is China's first National Ecological Day, a pioneering and iconic anniversary, which reflects the important position of ecological civilization construction in the new era and the firm determination to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China. Eighteen years ago today, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, proposed for the first time that "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains". In today's China 18 years later, Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization has guided the modernization process of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, profoundly changing the Chinese land. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as 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.

　　Colorful Shenzhou, mountains and rivers, the land of China is full of vitality from south to north.

　　In today's China, the sky is bluer. In the past decade, China's GDP has doubled, the average concentration of PM2.5 has dropped by 57%, the number of heavily polluted days has decreased by 93%, and China has become the fastest improving country in the world.

　　Today's China is greener. China has completed afforestation of 1.02 billion mu, contributing about 1/4 of the world's new green area, and has become the country with the fastest growth of forest resources in the world. China has completed a total of 305 million mu of sand prevention and control tasks, realizing the historic change from "sand entering and people retreating" to "green entering and retreating."

　　In today's China, the water is clearer. The proportion of class I.-III. sections of surface water in China reached 87.9%, which was close to the level of developed countries. The main stream of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River has reached Class II. water quality, and the black and odorous water bodies in cities at the prefecture level and above have been basically eliminated nationwide.

　　If the ecology rises, civilization will prosper, and if the ecology declines, the civilization will decline. 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, from heavy fist pollution control to system repair, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally commanded and personally deployed, and sought overall development with systematic thinking. Starting from concentrating on overcoming prominent ecological and environmental problems that the people strongly reflect, resolutely winning the blue sky defense war is the top priority, and returning the blue sky and white clouds and stars to the people. Thoroughly implement the action plan for the prevention and control of water pollution, and give the people the scene of clear water and green banks and shallow bottoms of fish. "Guarding a river and clear water," he stressed, "jointly grasping large-scale protection and not engaging in large-scale development." To protect the mother river, he proposed, "let the Yellow River become a happy river that benefits the people."

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's ecological civilization construction has achieved a major transformation from key rectification to systematic governance, from passive response to proactive action, from global environmental governance participant to leader, and from practical exploration to scientific theory guidance. The "four beams and eight pillars" of ecological civilization have basically taken shape, and dozens of reform plans related to the construction of ecological civilization have been introduced one after another; The system of river chiefs, lake chiefs, and forest chiefs has been fully established, and rivers, lakes, forests and grasslands have exclusive guardians. The central ecological environmental protection supervision system has become a hard way to promote the implementation of ecological environmental protection responsibilities by local party committees, governments and their relevant departments, and 286,000 ecological and environmental problems that have been wanted to be solved for a long time but have not been solved. Adhere to precise and scientific pollution control, and deeply promote the three major defense battles of blue sky, clear water and pure land. In the Yangtze River, after the implementation of the ten-year fishing ban, rare aquatic species such as the "smiling angel" finless porpoise have frequently appeared. The integrated protection of landscapes, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand has been solidly promoted, and the "green line" of vegetation in the Yellow River Basin has moved about 300 kilometers to the west. At present, China is building the world's largest national park system, and the wild populations of more than 300 rare and endangered wild animals and plants have steadily increased.

　　China's urban and rural living environment has been continuously improved. In rural areas, multiple measures have been taken to promote rural environmental improvement, and more than 50,000 beautiful villages with local characteristics have been built nationwide; In cities, China has built nearly 30,000 pocket parks, allowing citizens to enjoy a better life in "ecological white space".

　　In the decade of the new era, while the quality of the ecological environment has improved significantly, China has accelerated the green transformation of industrial structure and energy structure, and a large number of highly polluting enterprises have withdrawn in an orderly manner. China's average annual energy consumption growth rate of 3% supported an average economic growth of 6.6%, and the cumulative decline in energy intensity was 26.2%. China has built the world's largest clean power generation system and established the world's largest carbon market covering greenhouse gas emissions. From 2021 to 2022, China's carbon dioxide emission intensity will further decrease by 4.6% compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan", carbon peaking and carbon neutrality and the "1+N" policy system have been completed and continue to land, the world's largest charging infrastructure system has been basically completed, and the cumulative charging infrastructure has reached 6.65 million units, with obvious results in energy conservation and carbon reduction. Green has become the distinctive background color of China's development in the new era.