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has evolved. What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life. Overall,
China’s social productivity has substantially improved and the country has emerged
as a global leader on many fronts. A more prominent problem is imbalance and inadequacy in development, which constrains efforts to meet people’s ever-growing needs
for a better life. The principal social contradiction has evolved, but fundamentally,
what we face is the contradiction between people’s needs and social production. The
key to dissolve the contradiction is development, development that highlights quality
and efficiency, development that pursues harmonious coexistence between man and
nature.
Striking a balance between economic development and environmental protection
is actually an aspect of pursuing harmony between man and nature. Economic development is about human society’s economic development. The harmony between
man and nature cannot be about one individual’s harmony with nature, but about the
entire human society’s harmony with nature. This is what Mar stressed. The relationship between man and nature is a relationship between human society and nature,
rather than the relationship between individual and the outside world. In a sense,
striking a balance between economic development and environmental protection is
what we should do in pursuing harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The
former is the prerequisite of the latter. To say striking a balance between economic
development and environmental protection: first, it means that only by coordinating
economic development with environmental protection, can the economy grow in a
stable and sustainable manner. Economic development decides people’s living standards, but environmental protection decides whether people can survive. Therefore,
the latter is a fundamental issue. Economic development must be subject to and rely
on ecological protection. Second, it means that the relationship between economy
and the environment should be well handled in economic development. By changing
economic growth model, optimizing economic structure, transforming driving forces
for economic growth, and building a modern economic system, coordination between
economic development and ecological preservation can be realized.
3. Unity between green production and green lifestyle
The mode of production and people’s lifestyle are also important standards in
measuring harmony between man and nature. The mode of production has twofold implications – material mode of production and social mode of production. A
green mode of production is no exception. In the material sense, compared with
traditional mode of production, green production introduces the concepts of recycling and low-carbon development into the entire process of material production
and the life cycle of products, aiming to minimize environmental impact and energy
consumption throughout the life cycle. In social terms, green production expands
simple social relationships and connects people with nature. Instead of taking only
human production development per se into account, green production also values
the balance in development between man and nature. Green production is a natural,
harmonious and sustainable mode of production. It is an active mode of production
and one that benefits the people.
J. Zhao
has evolved. What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life. Overall,
China’s social productivity has substantially improved and the country has emerged
as a global leader on many fronts. A more prominent problem is imbalance and inadequacy in development, which constrains efforts to meet people’s ever-growing needs
for a better life. The principal social contradiction has evolved, but fundamentally,
what we face is the contradiction between people’s needs and social production. The
key to dissolve the contradiction is development, development that highlights quality
and efficiency, development that pursues harmonious coexistence between man and
nature.
Striking a balance between economic development and environmental protection
is actually an aspect of pursuing harmony between man and nature. Economic development is about human society’s economic development. The harmony between
man and nature cannot be about one individual’s harmony with nature, but about the
entire human society’s harmony with nature. This is what Mar stressed. The relationship between man and nature is a relationship between human society and nature,
rather than the relationship between individual and the outside world. In a sense,
striking a balance between economic development and environmental protection is
what we should do in pursuing harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The
former is the prerequisite of the latter. To say striking a balance between economic
development and environmental protection: first, it means that only by coordinating
economic development with environmental protection, can the economy grow in a
stable and sustainable manner. Economic development decides people’s living standards, but environmental protection decides whether people can survive. Therefore,
the latter is a fundamental issue. Economic development must be subject to and rely
on ecological protection. Second, it means that the relationship between economy
and the environment should be well handled in economic development. By changing
economic growth model, optimizing economic structure, transforming driving forces
for economic growth, and building a modern economic system, coordination between
economic development and ecological preservation can be realized.
3. Unity between green production and green lifestyle
The mode of production and people’s lifestyle are also important standards in
measuring harmony between man and nature. The mode of production has twofold implications – material mode of production and social mode of production. A
green mode of production is no exception. In the material sense, compared with
traditional mode of production, green production introduces the concepts of recycling and low-carbon development into the entire process of material production
and the life cycle of products, aiming to minimize environmental impact and energy
consumption throughout the life cycle. In social terms, green production expands
simple social relationships and connects people with nature. Instead of taking only
human production development per se into account, green production also values
the balance in development between man and nature. Green production is a natural,
harmonious and sustainable mode of production. It is an active mode of production
and one that benefits the people.