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6. Raising the awareness of society as a whole in building an ecological
civilization
Everyone has a stake in building an ecological civilization, so we must strengthen
the education of the entire population in this regard. The publicity for ecological
civilization should be introduced into schools and families, so that teachers will
become role models for students, parents their children, adult minors, and farmers
moving to the cities. We must guide society as a whole to develop the ideological
concepts and conduct codes of an ecological civilization that respects, adapts to and
protects nature, raise the ecological awareness of the entire population, standardize
ecological behaviors that are embodied by the consistency between words and deeds,
and foster cultural and living habits. Only in this way can we lay a solid and reliable
ideological foundation for, reach a highly-unified consensus on, and actively and
extensively engage in the development of an ecological civilization.