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goal of achieving overall improvement the country’s environmental quality by 2020,
and listed seven major tasks including strengthening air, water and soil pollution
prevention and control. The plan highlighted the systematic connections between
environmental quality improvement, total emission reduction, environmental protection, and environmental risk prevention and control; regarded environmental quality
improvement as the overall goal and evaluation criterion, broke down goals and tasks
to regions, river basins, cities, and control units, compiled a list of environmental
tasks, and refined environment management. The title of the plan was in itself a
reflection of the integration of environmental protection and ecological protection.
The plan prioritized green development and reform, significantly strengthened the
link between green development and ecological and environmental protection, and
insisted on tackling ecological and environmental problems from the source. The plan
also played an important role in promoting the establishment of a central environmental inspection system to supervise the performance of the main responsibilities
by local ecological and environmental authorities.
2 Fundamental Guiding Role of Environmental Planning
The evolution of environmental plans in China is a process in which the country’s
emphasis on environmental protection continuously increased. The Chinese government no longer only pays lip service to environmental plans. The national environmental plans reflected the will of the state and had a huge impact on people’s
lives. Environmental planning played an increasingly important role in environmental
protection.
First, a national environmental plan is a blueprint that sets out environmental
protection goals and tasks based on goals of national development strategies, designed
to transform beautiful visions concerning the environment into reality. The social
and economic development of China has always been strongly plan-based and goaloriented and the environmental plans also take into consideration the strategic goals
of social and economic development. Thus, a goal-oriented planning system is fully
in place in China. Since the adoption of the reform and opening-up strategy, China
has proposed to build a moderately prosperous society by 2000 as part of its “three
steps” strategy. In addition to ecological and environmental issues, the five-year
ecological and environmental protection plans during 1986–2000 also focused on
designing environmental goals and tasks to support the country’s efforts to fulfill this
goal. Entering the twenty-first century, at the 16th National Congress of the CPC,
the Party proposed the strategic goal of building a moderately prosperous society in
all respects by 2020, so the five-year ecological and environmental protection plans
during 2006–2020 focused on improving the country’s environment and reducing
major pollutant discharge by 2020 and strengthening environmental protection in all
fields to ensure that the beautiful national development blueprint can be gradually
transformed into reality.
J. Wan
goal of achieving overall improvement the country’s environmental quality by 2020,
and listed seven major tasks including strengthening air, water and soil pollution
prevention and control. The plan highlighted the systematic connections between
environmental quality improvement, total emission reduction, environmental protection, and environmental risk prevention and control; regarded environmental quality
improvement as the overall goal and evaluation criterion, broke down goals and tasks
to regions, river basins, cities, and control units, compiled a list of environmental
tasks, and refined environment management. The title of the plan was in itself a
reflection of the integration of environmental protection and ecological protection.
The plan prioritized green development and reform, significantly strengthened the
link between green development and ecological and environmental protection, and
insisted on tackling ecological and environmental problems from the source. The plan
also played an important role in promoting the establishment of a central environmental inspection system to supervise the performance of the main responsibilities
by local ecological and environmental authorities.
2 Fundamental Guiding Role of Environmental Planning
The evolution of environmental plans in China is a process in which the country’s
emphasis on environmental protection continuously increased. The Chinese government no longer only pays lip service to environmental plans. The national environmental plans reflected the will of the state and had a huge impact on people’s
lives. Environmental planning played an increasingly important role in environmental
protection.
First, a national environmental plan is a blueprint that sets out environmental
protection goals and tasks based on goals of national development strategies, designed
to transform beautiful visions concerning the environment into reality. The social
and economic development of China has always been strongly plan-based and goaloriented and the environmental plans also take into consideration the strategic goals
of social and economic development. Thus, a goal-oriented planning system is fully
in place in China. Since the adoption of the reform and opening-up strategy, China
has proposed to build a moderately prosperous society by 2000 as part of its “three
steps” strategy. In addition to ecological and environmental issues, the five-year
ecological and environmental protection plans during 1986–2000 also focused on
designing environmental goals and tasks to support the country’s efforts to fulfill this
goal. Entering the twenty-first century, at the 16th National Congress of the CPC,
the Party proposed the strategic goal of building a moderately prosperous society in
all respects by 2020, so the five-year ecological and environmental protection plans
during 2006–2020 focused on improving the country’s environment and reducing
major pollutant discharge by 2020 and strengthening environmental protection in all
fields to ensure that the beautiful national development blueprint can be gradually
transformed into reality.