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J. Wan
Local governments are encouraged to maintain a strong commitment to environmental sustainability, and to avoid major adjustments in their environmental protection priorities due to external fluctuations, especially changes in economic, policy
and even meteorological conditions, so that the progress of long-term, fundamental
tasks will not be affected. Major measures such as energy conservation and emission reduction during 2006–2010 and the current pollution prevention and control
campaigns are all designed in accordance with the target and task system established
in five-year comprehensive plans.
As the country strengthens assessment and inspection, it is especially necessary to
avoid fragmentation of work and a passive work attitude. We must comprehensively
consider fundamental, long-term, structural and layout-related environmental issues
in the administrative area when making environmental plans and build consensuses.
Third, an effective platform for dialogue and exchange of ideas has been built in
the process of preparing and implementing environmental protection plans and has
played an irreplaceable role in building environmental consensuses.
Environmental protection involves a wide range of areas. The roles and responsibilities of multiple departments need to be coordinated for the preparation and
implementation of environmental plans, and consistency should be ensured between
the goals and tasks at the national, provincial, and city levels. Actions should be
taken to respond to the demand of the government, enterprises, and the public. For
a long time, through the establishment of a multi-departmental, multi-level environmental planning mechanism, China has built channels for communication and
dialogue between governments at all levels. The scope of planning is not just limited
to mechanisms, systems, and division of responsibilities. The key is to ensure all
work activities are appropriately coordinated in the planning stage.
For 2011–2020, the 13th Five-Year Environmental Protection Plan was formulated. The previous boundaries for planning were broken and the scope of planning
was expanded to cover, among other things, ecological protection, environmental
governance, environment restoration and environmental monitoring, laying the foundation for a new round of institutional reform. At the same time, the central government leveraged the environmental planning and evaluation system to propel local
governments to establish a dialogue platform or mechanism to promote environmental protection in accordance with environmental plans. For example, in order
to achieve the goals of the 13th Five-Year Plan, Jiangsu Province launched the
263 Special Action Plan and established a special working mechanism participated
in by multiple departments, which greatly promoted the resolution of prominent
environmental problems.
As China’s socialist modernization has entered a new era, the society presented
diverse demands for ecological products and services and social groups from different
regions, industries, and classes have different environmental requirements. It is, therefore, necessary to make good use of the environment planning platform, strengthen
dialogue and communication, broadly build consensuses among all stakeholders,
and ensure that environmental protection activities can be carried out in an orderly
manner in accordance with the national development roadmap.
J. Wan
Local governments are encouraged to maintain a strong commitment to environmental sustainability, and to avoid major adjustments in their environmental protection priorities due to external fluctuations, especially changes in economic, policy
and even meteorological conditions, so that the progress of long-term, fundamental
tasks will not be affected. Major measures such as energy conservation and emission reduction during 2006–2010 and the current pollution prevention and control
campaigns are all designed in accordance with the target and task system established
in five-year comprehensive plans.
As the country strengthens assessment and inspection, it is especially necessary to
avoid fragmentation of work and a passive work attitude. We must comprehensively
consider fundamental, long-term, structural and layout-related environmental issues
in the administrative area when making environmental plans and build consensuses.
Third, an effective platform for dialogue and exchange of ideas has been built in
the process of preparing and implementing environmental protection plans and has
played an irreplaceable role in building environmental consensuses.
Environmental protection involves a wide range of areas. The roles and responsibilities of multiple departments need to be coordinated for the preparation and
implementation of environmental plans, and consistency should be ensured between
the goals and tasks at the national, provincial, and city levels. Actions should be
taken to respond to the demand of the government, enterprises, and the public. For
a long time, through the establishment of a multi-departmental, multi-level environmental planning mechanism, China has built channels for communication and
dialogue between governments at all levels. The scope of planning is not just limited
to mechanisms, systems, and division of responsibilities. The key is to ensure all
work activities are appropriately coordinated in the planning stage.
For 2011–2020, the 13th Five-Year Environmental Protection Plan was formulated. The previous boundaries for planning were broken and the scope of planning
was expanded to cover, among other things, ecological protection, environmental
governance, environment restoration and environmental monitoring, laying the foundation for a new round of institutional reform. At the same time, the central government leveraged the environmental planning and evaluation system to propel local
governments to establish a dialogue platform or mechanism to promote environmental protection in accordance with environmental plans. For example, in order
to achieve the goals of the 13th Five-Year Plan, Jiangsu Province launched the
263 Special Action Plan and established a special working mechanism participated
in by multiple departments, which greatly promoted the resolution of prominent
environmental problems.
As China’s socialist modernization has entered a new era, the society presented
diverse demands for ecological products and services and social groups from different
regions, industries, and classes have different environmental requirements. It is, therefore, necessary to make good use of the environment planning platform, strengthen
dialogue and communication, broadly build consensuses among all stakeholders,
and ensure that environmental protection activities can be carried out in an orderly
manner in accordance with the national development roadmap.