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and recovery of soil pollution. The rural environment rectification campaign will be
implemented continuously to create a beautiful countryside and retain the pastoral
landscape of singing birds and fragrant flowers for rural residents.
We must further reform the eco-environmental supervision system and protect
the eco-environment with the most rigorous laws and regulations. General Secretary Xi Jinping said, “Only by implementing the most rigorous laws and regulations can we provide reliable guarantee for ecological advancement.” Since the 18th
CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core has
accelerated the reform of eco-civilization system on all fronts, which comprises such
aspects as property right of natural resource assets, spatial development and protection, spatial planning, resource aggregate management and all-round conservation,
paid use of resources and ecological compensation, environmental governance, ecoprotection market, and ecological work assessment and accountability. During the
organizational reform of the Party and the nation in 2018, the State Council set
up the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. This has effectively rectified the chronic multi-point leadership and governance over China’s eco-environmental work, clarified the duties of stakeholders and
supervisors, and straightened out the administrative system and mechanism for ecocivilization, turning a new page in our efforts for ecological progress. At present,
most of the outstanding environmental problems in China result from incomplete
systems, the lack of appropriate rules and enforceable laws, inadequate implementation, and ineffective punishment. We must speed up institutional innovation, and
establish a complete eco-civilization system featuring clear-cut property right, multiparty engagement, and equal emphasis on incentive and restriction. We should also
improve a law-based system characterized by strict front-end prevention, process
control and back-end punishment, so as to remove the institutional and mechanism
obstacles that impede ecological progress. The top priority now is to earnestly implement the reform measures already adopted to promote eco-civilization, work out new
reform plans in a timely manner, and push for the modernization of our ecological
governance system and capability, including perfecting the natural resource asset
management system and reforming the eco-environmental monitoring system. Regulation should implemented strictly as an impregnable restraint and deterrent. Anyone
who has crossed the line on eco-environmental protection should be punished. This
has drawn a clear and definite bottom line that should never be crossed.
We must lead our ecological work with innovation and give full play to science and
technology as the primary productive force. Comrade Xi Jinping stressed that “green,
circular and low-carbon development is the direction of technological and industrial
revolution in modern times and is the most promising sector. China has great potential in this sector and can create many new economic growth points.” Ecological
progress not only needs theoretical and institutional innovation, but also, and more
importantly, needs to be powered by green technologies. Green tech innovation is
vital for pollution control, energy mix optimization and ecological recovery because
it provide inexhaustible driving force. We need to foster a market-oriented green tech
innovation system, develop green finance centered on the directions and priorities of
strategic emerging industries, and expand the industries of energy conservation and
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and recovery of soil pollution. The rural environment rectification campaign will be
implemented continuously to create a beautiful countryside and retain the pastoral
landscape of singing birds and fragrant flowers for rural residents.
We must further reform the eco-environmental supervision system and protect
the eco-environment with the most rigorous laws and regulations. General Secretary Xi Jinping said, “Only by implementing the most rigorous laws and regulations can we provide reliable guarantee for ecological advancement.” Since the 18th
CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core has
accelerated the reform of eco-civilization system on all fronts, which comprises such
aspects as property right of natural resource assets, spatial development and protection, spatial planning, resource aggregate management and all-round conservation,
paid use of resources and ecological compensation, environmental governance, ecoprotection market, and ecological work assessment and accountability. During the
organizational reform of the Party and the nation in 2018, the State Council set
up the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. This has effectively rectified the chronic multi-point leadership and governance over China’s eco-environmental work, clarified the duties of stakeholders and
supervisors, and straightened out the administrative system and mechanism for ecocivilization, turning a new page in our efforts for ecological progress. At present,
most of the outstanding environmental problems in China result from incomplete
systems, the lack of appropriate rules and enforceable laws, inadequate implementation, and ineffective punishment. We must speed up institutional innovation, and
establish a complete eco-civilization system featuring clear-cut property right, multiparty engagement, and equal emphasis on incentive and restriction. We should also
improve a law-based system characterized by strict front-end prevention, process
control and back-end punishment, so as to remove the institutional and mechanism
obstacles that impede ecological progress. The top priority now is to earnestly implement the reform measures already adopted to promote eco-civilization, work out new
reform plans in a timely manner, and push for the modernization of our ecological
governance system and capability, including perfecting the natural resource asset
management system and reforming the eco-environmental monitoring system. Regulation should implemented strictly as an impregnable restraint and deterrent. Anyone
who has crossed the line on eco-environmental protection should be punished. This
has drawn a clear and definite bottom line that should never be crossed.
We must lead our ecological work with innovation and give full play to science and
technology as the primary productive force. Comrade Xi Jinping stressed that “green,
circular and low-carbon development is the direction of technological and industrial
revolution in modern times and is the most promising sector. China has great potential in this sector and can create many new economic growth points.” Ecological
progress not only needs theoretical and institutional innovation, but also, and more
importantly, needs to be powered by green technologies. Green tech innovation is
vital for pollution control, energy mix optimization and ecological recovery because
it provide inexhaustible driving force. We need to foster a market-oriented green tech
innovation system, develop green finance centered on the directions and priorities of
strategic emerging industries, and expand the industries of energy conservation and