Towards Green Development: From
an Option to an Objective
Shunze Wu
Green is the color of nature and represents the foundations of a better life for the
people. Over the past 70 years since the founding of New China, we have gradually
deepened our understanding of green development and improved relevant practices
accordingly. After going through a process from limited to profound understanding
and from conscious to spontaneous practices, China has embarked on a path of green
development with Chinese characteristics. This is an inevitable trend as well as a
subjective choice that demonstrates the profound changes in the concept and way of
development and the CPC governance. A review of China’s journey to explore green
development step by step has great theoretical significance and practical value for
promoting ecological progress and building a beautiful China.
1 China’s Green Development Is Out of Both Historical
Necessity and Subjective Choice
From the emergence of the idea, the sublimation of the concept, the establishment of
relevant systems, to the practices, the path of green development has been determined
by the actual conditions in China, as well as a result of the CPC’s active explorations
for new ways of development and satisfying the people’s aspirations for a better life.
Wang Yong and Liu Yue contributed to this paper.
S. Wu (B)
Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Ministry of Ecology and Environment,
Beijing, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_32
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an Option to an Objective
Shunze Wu
Green is the color of nature and represents the foundations of a better life for the
people. Over the past 70 years since the founding of New China, we have gradually
deepened our understanding of green development and improved relevant practices
accordingly. After going through a process from limited to profound understanding
and from conscious to spontaneous practices, China has embarked on a path of green
development with Chinese characteristics. This is an inevitable trend as well as a
subjective choice that demonstrates the profound changes in the concept and way of
development and the CPC governance. A review of China’s journey to explore green
development step by step has great theoretical significance and practical value for
promoting ecological progress and building a beautiful China.
1 China’s Green Development Is Out of Both Historical
Necessity and Subjective Choice
From the emergence of the idea, the sublimation of the concept, the establishment of
relevant systems, to the practices, the path of green development has been determined
by the actual conditions in China, as well as a result of the CPC’s active explorations
for new ways of development and satisfying the people’s aspirations for a better life.
Wang Yong and Liu Yue contributed to this paper.
S. Wu (B)
Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Ministry of Ecology and Environment,
Beijing, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_32
331