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longest river in the world and the third longest river in Asia. It flows into Ho Chi
Minh City in Vietnam before entering the South China Sea. This is the first time
that the Communist Party of China, as the world’s largest ruling party, provided a
solution to global environmental issues and a sustainable development paradigm for
developing countries.
China is an increasingly important leader in the development of a global ecological civilization. China, striving for national rejuvenation, is leading global ecological
civilization actions. The twenty-first century saw human beings entering a new stage
of civilization, that is, ecological civilization. This is an inevitable trend, unaffected
by human will. Just as General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that human beings
have experienced hunter-gatherer civilization, agricultural civilization, and industrial civilization. Ecological civilization is a stage of higher level after industrial
civilization and is a precondition for the harmonious coexistence between man and
nature. Ecological civilization conforms to the law of evolution of human civilization. Based on the law of evolution of human civilization, mankind is increasingly
aware that whether it is an industrialized country or a developing country that has
not yet completed industrialization, it needs to abandon ethical values, production
methods, consumption methods, and institutional mechanisms of industrial civilization and adopt those of ecological civilization. In reality, western developed countries
traditionally have a strong bias toward those who are ideologically different from
them. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation featuring a universally applicable and the most inclusive value system and an international discourse system is
to be accepted and recognized by the world and help China take the leadership role
in global action to build a community with a shared future for mankind. Ecological
civilization undoubtedly has such systems. The concept of ecological civilization and
its development path advocated and practiced by China encourage different countries
to steer away from traditional industrial civilization and promote the development
of ecological civilization.
IV. Promote the Transformation of Human Civilization Paradigm Under the
Guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization
It should be noted that we lack a complete, science-based theoretical system of
ecological civilization, both domestically and internationally, especially a discourse
system widely recognized and consciously adopted by countries around the world
to effectively respond to foreseeable and unforeseeable difficulties, risks and trials.
China is working hard to eliminate the cumulative impacts of human activities on
the environment over the past several decades. It has stepped up pollution prevention
and control and actively promoted green technologies, industrial practices, green
systems, and ecological culture that best fit the community of shared future for
mankind. It is striving to integrate its plan to build an ecological civilization with the
Chinese dream, i.e., the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, with the efforts to
build a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern
country, and with the global action to build a community with a shared future for
mankind under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization. It
is important to build academic and discourse systems of ecological civilization for
Foreword II
longest river in the world and the third longest river in Asia. It flows into Ho Chi
Minh City in Vietnam before entering the South China Sea. This is the first time
that the Communist Party of China, as the world’s largest ruling party, provided a
solution to global environmental issues and a sustainable development paradigm for
developing countries.
China is an increasingly important leader in the development of a global ecological civilization. China, striving for national rejuvenation, is leading global ecological
civilization actions. The twenty-first century saw human beings entering a new stage
of civilization, that is, ecological civilization. This is an inevitable trend, unaffected
by human will. Just as General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that human beings
have experienced hunter-gatherer civilization, agricultural civilization, and industrial civilization. Ecological civilization is a stage of higher level after industrial
civilization and is a precondition for the harmonious coexistence between man and
nature. Ecological civilization conforms to the law of evolution of human civilization. Based on the law of evolution of human civilization, mankind is increasingly
aware that whether it is an industrialized country or a developing country that has
not yet completed industrialization, it needs to abandon ethical values, production
methods, consumption methods, and institutional mechanisms of industrial civilization and adopt those of ecological civilization. In reality, western developed countries
traditionally have a strong bias toward those who are ideologically different from
them. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation featuring a universally applicable and the most inclusive value system and an international discourse system is
to be accepted and recognized by the world and help China take the leadership role
in global action to build a community with a shared future for mankind. Ecological
civilization undoubtedly has such systems. The concept of ecological civilization and
its development path advocated and practiced by China encourage different countries
to steer away from traditional industrial civilization and promote the development
of ecological civilization.
IV. Promote the Transformation of Human Civilization Paradigm Under the
Guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization
It should be noted that we lack a complete, science-based theoretical system of
ecological civilization, both domestically and internationally, especially a discourse
system widely recognized and consciously adopted by countries around the world
to effectively respond to foreseeable and unforeseeable difficulties, risks and trials.
China is working hard to eliminate the cumulative impacts of human activities on
the environment over the past several decades. It has stepped up pollution prevention
and control and actively promoted green technologies, industrial practices, green
systems, and ecological culture that best fit the community of shared future for
mankind. It is striving to integrate its plan to build an ecological civilization with the
Chinese dream, i.e., the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, with the efforts to
build a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern
country, and with the global action to build a community with a shared future for
mankind under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization. It
is important to build academic and discourse systems of ecological civilization for