Mankind Will Awaken to Ecological Civilization
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growth rate in the country and ranking top three for several years in a row. It was also
designated by the central government as one of the first three pilot zones for ecological civilization development. According to Guizhou’s overall big data strategy, it
has become the first national big data experimental zone in China, firmly seizing
the opportunity of transformation during the new industrial revolution. During his
inspection tour to Guizhou, General Secretary Xi Jinping said “Guizhou is blazing
out a development path different from that in eastern China and that of other western
provinces.” In combining knowledge with action, the key lies in action, or practice.
Guizhou’s practices have demonstrated what powerful reform the implementation of
ecological civilization could bring about.
5 Building a Green “Belt and Road” by Promoting
Ecological Civilization Worldwide
The Belt and Road Initiative is aimed to build interconnected infrastructure hardware, while the building and international promotion of ecological civilization is the
software that underpins the hardware. They jointly create the green “Belt and Road.”
Ecological civilization has not only awakened the world’s ecological awareness,
but also given it a better idea of the Chinese version of the UN’s 2030 Agenda and
manifested its prospects through the “five transcendences” exclusive to ecological
civilization. As ecological civilization is centered on reflecting the natural and ecological laws of earth, its “five transcendences” have innate eloquence and penetration
that transcends the differences in nationality and territory, in stage of economic and
social development (e.g. developing and developed countries), in political and social
system, in thinking and ideology, and in culture and religious belief.
Obviously ecological civilization transcends the different civilizations currently
existing in the world, which makes Samuel Huntington’s “conflict of civilization”
theory unfounded. Peace is the common aspiration of the majority of global citizens,
and ecological civilization will enjoy the most extensive support because it can
promote equal dialogue, exchange and mutual learning among different civilizations,
and take the world to the new era featuring extensive consultation, joint contribution,
mutual help and shared benefits.
6 Only Ecological Civilization Can Resolve the Three Basic
Contradictions Faced by the Mankind
in the Twenty-First Century and Bring New Hope
and Vision for the Human Society
Amid the profound changes of the twenty-first century, there are three most fundamental and inevitable contradictions facing the humankind—(1) the increasingly
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growth rate in the country and ranking top three for several years in a row. It was also
designated by the central government as one of the first three pilot zones for ecological civilization development. According to Guizhou’s overall big data strategy, it
has become the first national big data experimental zone in China, firmly seizing
the opportunity of transformation during the new industrial revolution. During his
inspection tour to Guizhou, General Secretary Xi Jinping said “Guizhou is blazing
out a development path different from that in eastern China and that of other western
provinces.” In combining knowledge with action, the key lies in action, or practice.
Guizhou’s practices have demonstrated what powerful reform the implementation of
ecological civilization could bring about.
5 Building a Green “Belt and Road” by Promoting
Ecological Civilization Worldwide
The Belt and Road Initiative is aimed to build interconnected infrastructure hardware, while the building and international promotion of ecological civilization is the
software that underpins the hardware. They jointly create the green “Belt and Road.”
Ecological civilization has not only awakened the world’s ecological awareness,
but also given it a better idea of the Chinese version of the UN’s 2030 Agenda and
manifested its prospects through the “five transcendences” exclusive to ecological
civilization. As ecological civilization is centered on reflecting the natural and ecological laws of earth, its “five transcendences” have innate eloquence and penetration
that transcends the differences in nationality and territory, in stage of economic and
social development (e.g. developing and developed countries), in political and social
system, in thinking and ideology, and in culture and religious belief.
Obviously ecological civilization transcends the different civilizations currently
existing in the world, which makes Samuel Huntington’s “conflict of civilization”
theory unfounded. Peace is the common aspiration of the majority of global citizens,
and ecological civilization will enjoy the most extensive support because it can
promote equal dialogue, exchange and mutual learning among different civilizations,
and take the world to the new era featuring extensive consultation, joint contribution,
mutual help and shared benefits.
6 Only Ecological Civilization Can Resolve the Three Basic
Contradictions Faced by the Mankind
in the Twenty-First Century and Bring New Hope
and Vision for the Human Society
Amid the profound changes of the twenty-first century, there are three most fundamental and inevitable contradictions facing the humankind—(1) the increasingly