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2. Letting the concept of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and
grasslands together forming a biotic community take root in the people’s
hearts
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that just as humans need the fields for food,
the fields need the rivers, the rivers need the mountains, the mountains need the soils,
and the soils need the forests and grasslands, with mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands forming a biotic community. They are a unified natural
system, and an organic chain of interdependence and close links. In terms of policy
formulation, planning and project implementation, we must take a holistic approach
to the overall situation from the perspective of system engineering, comprehensively
consider the biological and ecological characteristics of regional mountains, rivers,
forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands, as well as their dynamic laws of succession,
and make planning for pollution prevention and control and ecological protection
in all natural ecosystems. We need to seek the best combination of systemic governance and protection, and conduct departmental collaboration, overall consideration,
integrated policy, multiple measures, and collaborative promotion. Instead of each
department taking charge of its own duty, we must seek collaboration among multiple
departments to implement the integrated ecological conservation and restoration of
mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands.
3. Strengthening technological innovation to increase the driving force for
development
Science and technology are the first productive forces. Many thorny challenges that
must be overcome in the development of an ecological civilization are technical
problems. Therefore, we should strengthen scientific and technological innovation,
improve the quality of scientific and technological supplies, take technological innovation as a tool to dismantle the “fence wall” that hinders developing an ecological
civilization, open the “last kilometer,” promote the precise connection of technological innovation with ecological civilization, and let science and technology play
their due role in the development of an ecological civilization. Therefore, for one
thing, we should strengthen the supply-side innovation of science and technology,
step up the research of new energy, new materials, new processes and new modes, lay
emphasis on low carbon, environmental protection, green and efficiency, and explore
new ways for resource recycling and conservation. For another, it is necessary to take
the improvement in the technological content of production as an important driving
force for economic transformation and green development, and to work for the popularization and application of existing research results so that science and technology
can really be turned into productive forces. In order for technological innovation,
we should put talent training and optimization mechanism in a prominent position,
cultivate talent through institutional innovation, boost technical R&D through mechanism optimization, and provide an inexhaustible source of power for the scientific
and technological revolution with the supply-side reform as the main line.
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2. Letting the concept of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and
grasslands together forming a biotic community take root in the people’s
hearts
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that just as humans need the fields for food,
the fields need the rivers, the rivers need the mountains, the mountains need the soils,
and the soils need the forests and grasslands, with mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands forming a biotic community. They are a unified natural
system, and an organic chain of interdependence and close links. In terms of policy
formulation, planning and project implementation, we must take a holistic approach
to the overall situation from the perspective of system engineering, comprehensively
consider the biological and ecological characteristics of regional mountains, rivers,
forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands, as well as their dynamic laws of succession,
and make planning for pollution prevention and control and ecological protection
in all natural ecosystems. We need to seek the best combination of systemic governance and protection, and conduct departmental collaboration, overall consideration,
integrated policy, multiple measures, and collaborative promotion. Instead of each
department taking charge of its own duty, we must seek collaboration among multiple
departments to implement the integrated ecological conservation and restoration of
mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands.
3. Strengthening technological innovation to increase the driving force for
development
Science and technology are the first productive forces. Many thorny challenges that
must be overcome in the development of an ecological civilization are technical
problems. Therefore, we should strengthen scientific and technological innovation,
improve the quality of scientific and technological supplies, take technological innovation as a tool to dismantle the “fence wall” that hinders developing an ecological
civilization, open the “last kilometer,” promote the precise connection of technological innovation with ecological civilization, and let science and technology play
their due role in the development of an ecological civilization. Therefore, for one
thing, we should strengthen the supply-side innovation of science and technology,
step up the research of new energy, new materials, new processes and new modes, lay
emphasis on low carbon, environmental protection, green and efficiency, and explore
new ways for resource recycling and conservation. For another, it is necessary to take
the improvement in the technological content of production as an important driving
force for economic transformation and green development, and to work for the popularization and application of existing research results so that science and technology
can really be turned into productive forces. In order for technological innovation,
we should put talent training and optimization mechanism in a prominent position,
cultivate talent through institutional innovation, boost technical R&D through mechanism optimization, and provide an inexhaustible source of power for the scientific
and technological revolution with the supply-side reform as the main line.