Several Issues About Promoting
Ecological Civilization that Should Be
Studied Further
Yuqing Wang
The CPC and the Chinese government have attached great importance to ecological
civilization, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally directed and promoted
this cause, which has brought out historic and comprehensive changes in the country.
The environmental situation in China has notably improved thanks to the concerted
efforts of all parties. In Beijing, people are enjoying more days of blue sky and
white cloud; around the country, the ecological environment is getting better as
bald mountains become green and rivers lucid. However, for a big country with a
population of nearly 1.4 billion people, the environmental pressure is huge on its way
to developing the economy and pursuing a happy life, and ecological improvement
will get increasingly difficult as we move forward. There is a long way to go in our
endeavor to build a beautiful China, and it is absolutely necessary to carry out relevant
in-depth studies, clarify various relations and keep deepening our understanding.
1 How to Understand Harmony Between Man and Nature
Civilization is the summation of the material and cultural (including institutional)
achievements made in the process of human renovation and protection of nature and
organization and reform of society. It is the symbol of social progress. Ecological
civilization can be viewed as an aspect of human civilization, namely the degree
of civilization that is reached by mankind in handling the relation with nature. It
is manifested in a state of harmonious co-existence and benign interaction between
human society and nature that supports the development of human society. When
discussing the concept and contents of ecological civilization, people generally take
“harmony between man and nature” as the core, but discussions are neither extensive
Y. Wang (B)
State Environmental Protection Administration, 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_43
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Ecological Civilization that Should Be
Studied Further
Yuqing Wang
The CPC and the Chinese government have attached great importance to ecological
civilization, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally directed and promoted
this cause, which has brought out historic and comprehensive changes in the country.
The environmental situation in China has notably improved thanks to the concerted
efforts of all parties. In Beijing, people are enjoying more days of blue sky and
white cloud; around the country, the ecological environment is getting better as
bald mountains become green and rivers lucid. However, for a big country with a
population of nearly 1.4 billion people, the environmental pressure is huge on its way
to developing the economy and pursuing a happy life, and ecological improvement
will get increasingly difficult as we move forward. There is a long way to go in our
endeavor to build a beautiful China, and it is absolutely necessary to carry out relevant
in-depth studies, clarify various relations and keep deepening our understanding.
1 How to Understand Harmony Between Man and Nature
Civilization is the summation of the material and cultural (including institutional)
achievements made in the process of human renovation and protection of nature and
organization and reform of society. It is the symbol of social progress. Ecological
civilization can be viewed as an aspect of human civilization, namely the degree
of civilization that is reached by mankind in handling the relation with nature. It
is manifested in a state of harmonious co-existence and benign interaction between
human society and nature that supports the development of human society. When
discussing the concept and contents of ecological civilization, people generally take
“harmony between man and nature” as the core, but discussions are neither extensive
Y. Wang (B)
State Environmental Protection Administration, 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_43
435