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M. Yu
made concerted efforts to create a better ecological environment with clearer sky,
greener mountains and cleaner waters, and jointly walked into the new era of socialist
ecological civilization.
The new development concept put an end to some long-standing disputes—
what’s the relation between economic development and environmental protection?
Is economic development bound to destroy the environment? It drew the definite
conclusion that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets as they can
bring economic benefits. As long as we consistently carry out this new concept,
we can achieve economic and social development and environmental protection in
parallel, and economic, social and ecological benefits in parallel.
3. Adhering to “protecting and improving the eco-environment is protecting
and developing productivity”
On April 10, 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping said during an inspection tour
in Hainan Province, “throughout the world development history, protecting and
improving the eco-environment is protecting and developing productivity.” On May
23, 2016, he said “ecology contains resources and productivity” when inspecting
Yichun, Heilongjiang Province.
The idea that ecology contains productivity overset the definition of productivity in
modern economics, which is that there is only one kind of productivity—the social
productivity of human labor. But that definition is incomplete. Ecology contains
productivity—this idea proposed by General Secretary Xi is a new economic theory,
a theoretical innovation and substantial progress in economics.
Following the idea that “ecology contains resources and productivity,” we need
to correctly handle the relation between economic development and environmental
protection, put economic statistics on natural resources and environmental quality
that go into material production, and implement the policy of paid use of natural
resources. Ecological assessment should be performed on the exploitation and utilization of resources and environment to compensate for their damages and strive for
ecologically balanced development. According to the new economic theory and
on the “circular economy” principle, we should invent ecological technologies and
processes to recycle or reuse resources invested in economic production for maximal
output while reducing the discharge of wastes, so as to realize maximal economic,
social and ecological benefits all at once. We need to protect and develop ecological productivity, so that we can create adequate economic products and values to
support modern life while conserving natural and ecological values, sustaining the
development of man, society and nature, and advancing their common prosperity in
a community of shared future. This is both imperative and feasible. It is the basis of
economic development in ecological civilization.
4. Adhering to socialist outlook on ecological civilization and socialist path
with Chinese characteristics
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report of the 19th CPC National
Congress that what we are doing today to build an ecological civilization will benefit
M. Yu
made concerted efforts to create a better ecological environment with clearer sky,
greener mountains and cleaner waters, and jointly walked into the new era of socialist
ecological civilization.
The new development concept put an end to some long-standing disputes—
what’s the relation between economic development and environmental protection?
Is economic development bound to destroy the environment? It drew the definite
conclusion that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets as they can
bring economic benefits. As long as we consistently carry out this new concept,
we can achieve economic and social development and environmental protection in
parallel, and economic, social and ecological benefits in parallel.
3. Adhering to “protecting and improving the eco-environment is protecting
and developing productivity”
On April 10, 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping said during an inspection tour
in Hainan Province, “throughout the world development history, protecting and
improving the eco-environment is protecting and developing productivity.” On May
23, 2016, he said “ecology contains resources and productivity” when inspecting
Yichun, Heilongjiang Province.
The idea that ecology contains productivity overset the definition of productivity in
modern economics, which is that there is only one kind of productivity—the social
productivity of human labor. But that definition is incomplete. Ecology contains
productivity—this idea proposed by General Secretary Xi is a new economic theory,
a theoretical innovation and substantial progress in economics.
Following the idea that “ecology contains resources and productivity,” we need
to correctly handle the relation between economic development and environmental
protection, put economic statistics on natural resources and environmental quality
that go into material production, and implement the policy of paid use of natural
resources. Ecological assessment should be performed on the exploitation and utilization of resources and environment to compensate for their damages and strive for
ecologically balanced development. According to the new economic theory and
on the “circular economy” principle, we should invent ecological technologies and
processes to recycle or reuse resources invested in economic production for maximal
output while reducing the discharge of wastes, so as to realize maximal economic,
social and ecological benefits all at once. We need to protect and develop ecological productivity, so that we can create adequate economic products and values to
support modern life while conserving natural and ecological values, sustaining the
development of man, society and nature, and advancing their common prosperity in
a community of shared future. This is both imperative and feasible. It is the basis of
economic development in ecological civilization.
4. Adhering to socialist outlook on ecological civilization and socialist path
with Chinese characteristics
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report of the 19th CPC National
Congress that what we are doing today to build an ecological civilization will benefit