On October 18, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was grandly opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. On behalf of the 18th Central Committee, President Xi Jinping delivered a report to the congress. In his speech, Xi pointed out that all people should be motivated to take participate in the air pollution prevention and control from the source, the government will continue the implementation of prevention and control actions to win the blue sky defense war. The prevention and control of water pollution will be accelerated, and river basin environment and coastal waters will be comprehensively improved. The control and restoration of polluted soil shall be intensified, work will take place to prevent and control agricultural pollution from non-point sources and actions will be taken to improve rural human settlement environment. Effects will be increased in solid waste and garbage disposal. Pollution discharge standards and the responsibility of the discharger will be strengthened and such systems as environmental credit evaluation, mandatory disclosure of information and severe punishment will be improved.
Work and Historic Changes over the Past Five Years (Excerpt)
Marked achievements were made in ecological conservation. Great efforts were made to promote the construction of ecological civilization. The consciousness and initiative of the whole party and the nation to implement the concept of green development were significantly enhanced, and the situation of neglecting ecological environmental protection changed significantly. The system of ecological civilization was accelerated, the system of main functional areas gradually improved, and the pilot of the national park system actively promoted. The overall saving of resources was effectively promoted, and the intensity of energy resource consumption dropped significantly. Significant ecological protection and restoration projects were progressing smoothly, and forest coverage continued to increase. The ecological environment governance was significantly strengthened and the environmental conditions improved. Guide was made on international cooperation on climate change, and China became an important participant, contributor and leader of global ecological civilization construction.
The Socialist Thoughts and Basic Strategies with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era (Excerpt)
We should pursue harmony between man and nature. Building an ecological civilization is a millennium plan for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. It is necessary to establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, stick to the basic national policy of conserving resources and protecting the environment, treat the ecological environment like life, coordinate management of mountains, waters, forests, farmland, lakes and grassland, implement the most stringent ecological environmental protection system, form a green development mode and lifestyle and firmly follow the path of civilized development of developed production, affluent life, and good ecology, thus building a beautiful China, creating a good production and living environment for the people and contributing to the global ecological security.
Completing the Process of Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in all Respects and Embark on a New Journey of Building a Socialist Modernized Country in an All-Round Way (Except)
Through a comprehensive analysis of the international and domestic situation and China's development conditions, the second centennial development goal of China can be arranged in two stages from the year 2000 to the middle of this century.
The first stage: From 2020 to 2035, on the basis of building a well-off society in an all-round way, we will continue to struggle for 15 years to basically realize socialist modernization. At this stage, the ecological environment will be basically improved, and the goal of beautiful China basically achieved.
The second stage: From 2035 to the middle of this century, on the basis of basically realizing modernization, we will fight for another fifteen years to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country. At that time, China's material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization and ecological civilization will be comprehensively improved and the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity will be realized. China will become a country with leading comprehensive national strength and international influence, and the common prosperity of all people will be basically realized. Chinese people will enjoy a more happy and healthy life, and the Chinese nation will stand in the world's national forest with a more high-spirited attitude.
Accelerating the Reform of the Ecological Civilization System and Build Beautiful China
Man and nature are communities of life, and human beings must respect nature, conform to nature, and protect nature. Only by obeying the laws of nature can human beings effectively prevent detours in the development and utilization of nature. Human harm to nature will eventually hurt human beings. This is an irresistible law.
The modernization we want to build is a modernization in which people and nature live in harmony. It is necessary to create more material wealth and spiritual wealth to meet the people's growing needs for better life and provide more high-quality ecological products to meet the people's growing need for beautiful environment. We must adhere to the principle of giving priority to saving and protection and natural restoration, forming a spatial pattern, industrial structure, production methods and lifestyle that conserves resources and protects the environment and creating quiet, harmonious and beautiful nature.
(1) Promoting green development. The establishment of a legal system and policy orientation for green production and consumption will be established, and an economic system for the development of a green and low-carbon cycle development will be established and improved. A market-oriented green technology innovation system will be established, green finance will be developed, and the energy conservation and environmental protection industry, clean production industry and clean energy industry will be strengthened. The energy production and consumption revolution will be advanced, and a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system will be structured. China will promote the comprehensive resource conservation and recycling, implement national water conservation actions, reduce energy consumption and material consumption and realize circular links between production systems and living systems. China also advocates simple and modest, green and low-carbon lifestyles, opposes wastes and irrational consumption and will carry out actions such as creating conservation-oriented institutions, green families, green schools, green communities and green travel.
(2) Focusing on solving outstanding environmental problems. All people should be motivated to take participate in the air pollution prevention and control from the source, the government will continue the implementation of prevention and control actions to win the blue sky defense war. The prevention and control of water pollution will be accelerated, and river basin environment and coastal waters will be comprehensively improved. The control and restoration of polluted soil shall be intensified, work will take place to prevent and control agricultural pollution from non-point sources and actions will be taken to improve rural human settlement environment. Effects will be increased in solid waste and garbage disposal. Pollution discharge standards and the responsibility of the discharger will be strengthened and such systems as environmental credit evaluation, mandatory disclosure of information and severe punishment will be improved. China will construct a government-led environmental governance system in which enterprises are the main players and social organizations and the public jointly participate. China will also actively participate in global environmental governance and implement emission reduction commitment.
(3) Strengthening the protection of ecosystems. Important ecosystem protection and restoration major projects will be implemented, ecological safety barrier systems will be optimized and ecological corridors and biodiversity conservation networks will be built to improve ecosystem quality and stability. The delineating the three control lines including ecological protection red line, permanent basic farmland and urban development boundary will be completed. National greening actions will be carried out, the comprehensive governance of desertification, stony desertification and soil erosion will be promoted, wetland protection and restoration will be strengthened and the prevention and control of geological disasters will be intensified. China will improve the natural forest protection system and expand return the grain plots to forests and grasslands. Cultivated lands will be strictly protected, the pilot of crop rotation and fallow will be expanded, the system of recuperation of cultivated lands, grasslands, forests, rivers and lakes will be improved, and a market-oriented and diversified ecological compensation mechanism will be established.
(4) Reforming the ecological environment supervision system. The overall design and organization leadership of the ecological civilization construction will be strengthened, state-owned natural resource asset management and natural ecological supervision institutions will be established and the ecological environment management system will be perfected to uniformly exercise the duties of the owners of natural resource assets belonging to all people, all land space use control and ecological protection and restoration responsibilities and the duty of monitoring various types of pollution discharge and administrative law enforcement in urban and rural areas. China will establish a land-based space development and protection system, improve the supporting policies for the main functional areas and establish a natural protection land system with national parks as the main body. The destruction of ecological environment will be resolutely stopped and punished.
Comrades! The construction of ecological civilization is conducive to the present and the future. We must firmly establish the socialist ecological civilization concept, promote the formation of a new pattern of harmonious development of man and nature, and make the efforts of our generation to protect the ecological environment!
