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will enable people to fairly enjoy the fruits of development and make the society more
harmonious. It seeks benefits and solves difficulties for the people, addresses their
most immediate concerns, and makes continuous progress in ensuring people’s access
to childcare, education, employment, medical services, elderly care and housing. It
should be viewed as a key task to materialize, protect and enhance people’s fundamental interests, and safeguarding people’s environmental rights and interests should
be made the highest standard for work performance. Through the united efforts of
the whole Party and the whole nation, we will strive to create a dynamic situation
where everyone contributes to and shares the benefits in social harmony.
Ecological progress and livelihood improvement promote each other. As people
are living an increasingly better life, they are no longer content with being “well
fed and well clad,” but have higher-level needs such as for a sound ecological environment. They are paying more attention to ecological protection in river basins,
sources of drinking water, and life-related topics like smog. Environmental quality
directly bears on public life safety as the emergence and spread of some diseases
originates in environmental deterioration. Only by intensifying ecological progress
and realizing the sustainable use of natural resources and sound cycle of ecological
environment can we keep improving the livelihood. If we don’t pay close attention to livelihood, a sound environmental cycle is hard to come through; but if we
only focus on livelihood and neglect environmental improvement, livelihood won’t
sustain either. Therefore, we must place equal emphasis on environmental protection
and livelihood improvement, and embark on a development path characterized by
advanced production, affluent life and sound ecology.
Ecological progress should serve social construction. When approving projects
and handling environmental violations and pollution disputes, we must stand fast by
the following bottom line—are we safeguarding the people’s environmental rights
and interests? Are we putting public health and safety first? Democratic rights of the
people should include environmental rights, which therefore have to be protected. On
the other hand, the people have the right to exercise democratic supervision according
to law, and managing public affairs and public welfare undertakings, including environmental protection, is the most effective and widespread approach to letting the
people be their own masters. When it comes to specific work, we must make sure the
people have access to clean drinking water by strengthening water source protection
and the protection and improvement of rural ecology and environment; make sure
they can breathe fresh air by reducing the occurrence and adverse effects of smog
weather. We must also make sure they have access to safe food by encouraging and
supporting ecological agriculture and ecological product development, reinforcing
agricultural non-point pollution governance and food safety supervision, and intensifying full-process supervision over the production, processing and circulation of
grain, vegetables, meat and aquatic products. Efforts should be made to energetically develop characteristic economic forests and fruits, vegetables, medicine and
animal husbandry for “win–win” interactions of “Sannong (agriculture, farms and
countryside).”
Ecological progress doesn’t equal environmental protection. Ecological progress
in the broad sense consists of ecological construction, ecological economy, ecological
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will enable people to fairly enjoy the fruits of development and make the society more
harmonious. It seeks benefits and solves difficulties for the people, addresses their
most immediate concerns, and makes continuous progress in ensuring people’s access
to childcare, education, employment, medical services, elderly care and housing. It
should be viewed as a key task to materialize, protect and enhance people’s fundamental interests, and safeguarding people’s environmental rights and interests should
be made the highest standard for work performance. Through the united efforts of
the whole Party and the whole nation, we will strive to create a dynamic situation
where everyone contributes to and shares the benefits in social harmony.
Ecological progress and livelihood improvement promote each other. As people
are living an increasingly better life, they are no longer content with being “well
fed and well clad,” but have higher-level needs such as for a sound ecological environment. They are paying more attention to ecological protection in river basins,
sources of drinking water, and life-related topics like smog. Environmental quality
directly bears on public life safety as the emergence and spread of some diseases
originates in environmental deterioration. Only by intensifying ecological progress
and realizing the sustainable use of natural resources and sound cycle of ecological
environment can we keep improving the livelihood. If we don’t pay close attention to livelihood, a sound environmental cycle is hard to come through; but if we
only focus on livelihood and neglect environmental improvement, livelihood won’t
sustain either. Therefore, we must place equal emphasis on environmental protection
and livelihood improvement, and embark on a development path characterized by
advanced production, affluent life and sound ecology.
Ecological progress should serve social construction. When approving projects
and handling environmental violations and pollution disputes, we must stand fast by
the following bottom line—are we safeguarding the people’s environmental rights
and interests? Are we putting public health and safety first? Democratic rights of the
people should include environmental rights, which therefore have to be protected. On
the other hand, the people have the right to exercise democratic supervision according
to law, and managing public affairs and public welfare undertakings, including environmental protection, is the most effective and widespread approach to letting the
people be their own masters. When it comes to specific work, we must make sure the
people have access to clean drinking water by strengthening water source protection
and the protection and improvement of rural ecology and environment; make sure
they can breathe fresh air by reducing the occurrence and adverse effects of smog
weather. We must also make sure they have access to safe food by encouraging and
supporting ecological agriculture and ecological product development, reinforcing
agricultural non-point pollution governance and food safety supervision, and intensifying full-process supervision over the production, processing and circulation of
grain, vegetables, meat and aquatic products. Efforts should be made to energetically develop characteristic economic forests and fruits, vegetables, medicine and
animal husbandry for “win–win” interactions of “Sannong (agriculture, farms and
countryside).”
Ecological progress doesn’t equal environmental protection. Ecological progress
in the broad sense consists of ecological construction, ecological economy, ecological