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a bid to maintain and appreciate the value, while transforming ecological services
from free resources to valuable commodities or services in a way for socialized
production and market operation. In 2005, Zhejiang Daily ran a commentary by
Comrade Xi Jinping, titled Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets,
in the column of “Zhejiang, China: A New Vision for Development.” Xi wrote that
“if we could transform the co-environmental advantages into competitive edge in
ecological economy, such as eco-agriculture, eco-industry and eco-tourism, we can
turn lucid waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets.” In October 2017, the
report to the 19th CPC National Congress specified that “we must realize that lucid
waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets and act on this understanding,” and
the newly revised Constitution of the Communist Party of China provides that “the
Communist Party of China shall fully understand that lucid waters and lush mountains
are invaluable assets.”
The industrialized ecology constitutes the industrial pillar for transforming lucid
waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets, embodying the concepts about the
natural capital and the integration of economic development with nature conservation. The key to ecological industrialization is to explore the path to realize the value
of ecological products. At a seminar on boosting the development of the Yangtze
Economic Belt in 2018, Xi Jinping emphasized to actively explore and promote the
path of transforming lucid waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets, carry out
pilot programs to realize the values of ecological products in selected regions, and
blaze a government-led, market-oriented operation and sustainable trail for realizing
the values of ecological products. The National Development and Reform Commission and the former Ministry of Environmental Protection have respectively advanced
the implementation of pilot projects for realizing the values of ecological products
and the development of practical innovation bases to put into action the concept that
“lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” in an effort to translate the
concept of industrialized ecology into practice. The concept that “lucid waters and
lush mountains are invaluable assets” and the practices in this regard have vigorously promoted the green development that integrates economic development with
environmental protection, while significantly boosting our confidence in pursuing
a model of sustainable development featuring increased production, higher living
standards, and healthy ecosystems.
S. Wu
a bid to maintain and appreciate the value, while transforming ecological services
from free resources to valuable commodities or services in a way for socialized
production and market operation. In 2005, Zhejiang Daily ran a commentary by
Comrade Xi Jinping, titled Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets,
in the column of “Zhejiang, China: A New Vision for Development.” Xi wrote that
“if we could transform the co-environmental advantages into competitive edge in
ecological economy, such as eco-agriculture, eco-industry and eco-tourism, we can
turn lucid waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets.” In October 2017, the
report to the 19th CPC National Congress specified that “we must realize that lucid
waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets and act on this understanding,” and
the newly revised Constitution of the Communist Party of China provides that “the
Communist Party of China shall fully understand that lucid waters and lush mountains
are invaluable assets.”
The industrialized ecology constitutes the industrial pillar for transforming lucid
waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets, embodying the concepts about the
natural capital and the integration of economic development with nature conservation. The key to ecological industrialization is to explore the path to realize the value
of ecological products. At a seminar on boosting the development of the Yangtze
Economic Belt in 2018, Xi Jinping emphasized to actively explore and promote the
path of transforming lucid waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets, carry out
pilot programs to realize the values of ecological products in selected regions, and
blaze a government-led, market-oriented operation and sustainable trail for realizing
the values of ecological products. The National Development and Reform Commission and the former Ministry of Environmental Protection have respectively advanced
the implementation of pilot projects for realizing the values of ecological products
and the development of practical innovation bases to put into action the concept that
“lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” in an effort to translate the
concept of industrialized ecology into practice. The concept that “lucid waters and
lush mountains are invaluable assets” and the practices in this regard have vigorously promoted the green development that integrates economic development with
environmental protection, while significantly boosting our confidence in pursuing
a model of sustainable development featuring increased production, higher living
standards, and healthy ecosystems.