Profoundly Understanding the Multiple Relations in Ecological …
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When building ecological civilization, we should give full play to the market’s
basic role in resource allocation to make economic growth more vibrant and efficient. In the meantime, we should give full play to the government’s role in macromanagement and regulation to overcome or make up for the market’s defects
and shortcomings and solve problems that the market cannot. As industrialization, urbanization, marketization, information application and global economic integration are all picking up speed and our reform has come to a critical juncture,
the government should well play its role in boosting employment, adjusting allocation, perfecting social security, ensuring social equity, coordinating urban–rural
and regional development, protecting the ecological environment, and maintaining
economic stability.
Strengthened government control can effectively conserve resources and reduce
the immense hazards imposed by backward market economy on the whole society.
It also avoids the waste of resources resulting from repeated construction and blind
investment, and restricts construction projects that cause high consumption and high
pollution and seriously affect the ecological environment. Great efforts must be made
to accelerate the shift in government functions, clear the institutional barriers to
fundamentally change the economic growth mode, and effectively address the overreaching, omission and mismatch of government functions. Upholding the idea of
open, transparent and honest management and power-duty consistency, the government should comprehensively and correctly perform its duties in “economic adjustment, market supervision, social administration and public service.” It must represent
equality and efficiency in resource and environmental planning, price mechanism,
investment policy and administrative system, and make sure government intervention is just, open and equitable. Government decisions should be more scientific,
so they can rectify market malfunctions while preventing government malfunction,
and avoid disorderly or excessive competition and possible inefficient, unfair or
unequal phenomenon such as monopoly. Special efforts should be made regarding
the allocation of significant rare resources and state-owned public resources. The
government should work hard to achieve reasonable and just social objectives and
sound economic order, and modernize its governing capabilities.
We can use the market mechanism to build ecological civilization at a lower
cost and higher efficiency. Ecological progress doesn’t equal government leadership,
fiscal input and government purchase of services. Instead, the market’s basic role in
resource allocation should be brought into full play. We must take advantage of the
price leverage, so that the price of resources fully reflects the real cost of ecology,
resources and environment, and polluters, resource developers and users will bear
the losses of environmental and ecological damages as well as the cost of resource
depletion. An environmental resource market shall be created, such as the water
market and discharge trading market, to effectively keep down the cost of pollution
control. Public fiscal fund shall be spent in such a way as to steer private capital to
ecological progress, and all kinds of entities shall be mobilized to actively participate
in this cause. Enterprises should consciously act as entities responsible for pollution
control, have a keener sense of social responsibility for environmental protection,
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When building ecological civilization, we should give full play to the market’s
basic role in resource allocation to make economic growth more vibrant and efficient. In the meantime, we should give full play to the government’s role in macromanagement and regulation to overcome or make up for the market’s defects
and shortcomings and solve problems that the market cannot. As industrialization, urbanization, marketization, information application and global economic integration are all picking up speed and our reform has come to a critical juncture,
the government should well play its role in boosting employment, adjusting allocation, perfecting social security, ensuring social equity, coordinating urban–rural
and regional development, protecting the ecological environment, and maintaining
economic stability.
Strengthened government control can effectively conserve resources and reduce
the immense hazards imposed by backward market economy on the whole society.
It also avoids the waste of resources resulting from repeated construction and blind
investment, and restricts construction projects that cause high consumption and high
pollution and seriously affect the ecological environment. Great efforts must be made
to accelerate the shift in government functions, clear the institutional barriers to
fundamentally change the economic growth mode, and effectively address the overreaching, omission and mismatch of government functions. Upholding the idea of
open, transparent and honest management and power-duty consistency, the government should comprehensively and correctly perform its duties in “economic adjustment, market supervision, social administration and public service.” It must represent
equality and efficiency in resource and environmental planning, price mechanism,
investment policy and administrative system, and make sure government intervention is just, open and equitable. Government decisions should be more scientific,
so they can rectify market malfunctions while preventing government malfunction,
and avoid disorderly or excessive competition and possible inefficient, unfair or
unequal phenomenon such as monopoly. Special efforts should be made regarding
the allocation of significant rare resources and state-owned public resources. The
government should work hard to achieve reasonable and just social objectives and
sound economic order, and modernize its governing capabilities.
We can use the market mechanism to build ecological civilization at a lower
cost and higher efficiency. Ecological progress doesn’t equal government leadership,
fiscal input and government purchase of services. Instead, the market’s basic role in
resource allocation should be brought into full play. We must take advantage of the
price leverage, so that the price of resources fully reflects the real cost of ecology,
resources and environment, and polluters, resource developers and users will bear
the losses of environmental and ecological damages as well as the cost of resource
depletion. An environmental resource market shall be created, such as the water
market and discharge trading market, to effectively keep down the cost of pollution
control. Public fiscal fund shall be spent in such a way as to steer private capital to
ecological progress, and all kinds of entities shall be mobilized to actively participate
in this cause. Enterprises should consciously act as entities responsible for pollution
control, have a keener sense of social responsibility for environmental protection,