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life. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that “we must take all of the ways that
we impact nature into account from a broad and long-term perspective, and avoid
being penny-wise and pound-foolish, biting off more than we can chew or emphasizing one thing while neglecting another, for this would ultimately cause long-term
environmental damage on a system-wide scale.”
5. Reinforcing rigid restraints on the red-line legal system is the basic
guarantee for fighting the battle against pollution
For a long time, in order to speed up economic development and increase GDP in
some places, local governments make up plans, launch projects, and advance rashly,
with little regard for the impact on ecosystems and the environment. Even some
industrial, mining and chemical enterprises, where money is paramount, save money
as much as possible in a bid to gain maximum benefits, and do not take measures to
clean up pollutant emissions from production, or reduce emissions only to go through
the formality. General Secretary Xi called for the resolute eradication of this practice
of pollution before treatment and not treating at all, and for the resolute rejection of
this path of seeking short-term gain at the expense of future generations. He pointed
out that only the strictest system and the strictest rule of law can provide a reliable
guarantee for the development of ecological civilization. Therefore, it is necessary to
establish an effective legal system for ecological civilization that constrains exploitation and promotes green, cyclic and low-carbon development by following the idea
of strict prevention at the pollution source, strict control of the pollution process
and severe punishment of consequences. We must improve the complete system of
ecological civilization with clear property rights, pluralistic participation, and equal
emphasis on incentives and constraints, so as to provide legal and institutional safeguards for building an ecological civilization. All local governments should earnestly
implement the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping. They should be determined and courageous to rise to the challenge, regulate matters according to the law,
use the system to regulate people, strictly investigate violations of the law, make the
law and the system a rigid constraint in the fight against pollution, integrate economic
and social development with ecological civilization, and comprehensively promote
green development.
6. Promoting co-governance among countries as a basic strategy for achieving
global ecological civilization
Since industrialization, Western developed countries have followed the path of “pollution before treatment.” Greenhouse gas emissions, rising global temperatures,
melting Arctic icebergs, frequent extreme weather events and many other irreversible
ecological problems on a global scale have brought immeasurable disasters and losses
to humans and posed hidden development hazards that are difficult to predict and
prevent. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that humans constitute a community
with a shared future and building a green home is the common dream of mankind.
No country can be immune to the global challenges posed by the ecological crisis.
Therefore, all countries should be encouraged to join hands to take care of the earth
and protect our home. Promoting the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative is an
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life. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that “we must take all of the ways that
we impact nature into account from a broad and long-term perspective, and avoid
being penny-wise and pound-foolish, biting off more than we can chew or emphasizing one thing while neglecting another, for this would ultimately cause long-term
environmental damage on a system-wide scale.”
5. Reinforcing rigid restraints on the red-line legal system is the basic
guarantee for fighting the battle against pollution
For a long time, in order to speed up economic development and increase GDP in
some places, local governments make up plans, launch projects, and advance rashly,
with little regard for the impact on ecosystems and the environment. Even some
industrial, mining and chemical enterprises, where money is paramount, save money
as much as possible in a bid to gain maximum benefits, and do not take measures to
clean up pollutant emissions from production, or reduce emissions only to go through
the formality. General Secretary Xi called for the resolute eradication of this practice
of pollution before treatment and not treating at all, and for the resolute rejection of
this path of seeking short-term gain at the expense of future generations. He pointed
out that only the strictest system and the strictest rule of law can provide a reliable
guarantee for the development of ecological civilization. Therefore, it is necessary to
establish an effective legal system for ecological civilization that constrains exploitation and promotes green, cyclic and low-carbon development by following the idea
of strict prevention at the pollution source, strict control of the pollution process
and severe punishment of consequences. We must improve the complete system of
ecological civilization with clear property rights, pluralistic participation, and equal
emphasis on incentives and constraints, so as to provide legal and institutional safeguards for building an ecological civilization. All local governments should earnestly
implement the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping. They should be determined and courageous to rise to the challenge, regulate matters according to the law,
use the system to regulate people, strictly investigate violations of the law, make the
law and the system a rigid constraint in the fight against pollution, integrate economic
and social development with ecological civilization, and comprehensively promote
green development.
6. Promoting co-governance among countries as a basic strategy for achieving
global ecological civilization
Since industrialization, Western developed countries have followed the path of “pollution before treatment.” Greenhouse gas emissions, rising global temperatures,
melting Arctic icebergs, frequent extreme weather events and many other irreversible
ecological problems on a global scale have brought immeasurable disasters and losses
to humans and posed hidden development hazards that are difficult to predict and
prevent. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that humans constitute a community
with a shared future and building a green home is the common dream of mankind.
No country can be immune to the global challenges posed by the ecological crisis.
Therefore, all countries should be encouraged to join hands to take care of the earth
and protect our home. Promoting the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative is an