Contents
China’s Efforts to Build an Ecological Civilization over the Past 70
Years
Changes in Environmental Policy in the Past 40 Years of Reform
and Opening-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Zhenhua Xie
Environmental Legislation in the Past 70 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Zhongmei Lv
Environmental Protection in China in the Past 70 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Jinnan Wang
Development and Effects of Nature Conservation in China
in the Past 70 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Jixi Gao
Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development in China:
Review and Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Yi Wang
The Mass Line: An Important Methodology Used by China
to Promote the Development of Ecological Civilization in the Past
70 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Yunfei Zhang
Evolution of Socialist Ecological Civilization from Ideology
to a Form of Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chengliang Huang
Environmental Planning in China (1949–Present) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Jun Wan
Environmental Protection Attempts in the Early Days
of the People’s Republic of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Lianhui Zhang
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