On Xi Jinping’s Important Statements on Reform …
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on one or several elements of ecological civilization to comprehensively promoting
the coordinated development of ecological culture, ecological industry, ecological
consumption, ecological environment, ecological resources, ecological technology,
ecological institutions, ecological villages, and ecological cities.
The construction of institutions for developing an ecological civilization has
expanded a single institution to a set of institutions, and built a complete set and
structure of institutions. China has not only tried institutions imported, but also
invented its own institutions; converged the once-separated formal, informal institutions and implementation mechanisms, with informal institutions and implementation mechanisms to support the introduction of formal institutions. The performance
of institutions has been much improved. The economic development and ecological
protection are mutually dependent and inseparable, leading to a not only safer but
also more beautiful ecological environment.
It took China only decades to achieve industrialization which took developed
countries centuries. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has managed to
halt the degeneration of and see much improvement in the environmental quality,
a transition that took developed countries at least 30 to 50 years, or more than
100 years at most in the course of industrialization. Xi Jinping pointed out at
the National Conference on Eco-environmental Protection: “Since the 18th CPC
National Congress, we have carried out a series of fundamental, pioneering and
long-term work, accelerated the top-level design and the construction of the set of
institutions for promoting ecological progress, strengthened the rule of law, and
established and implemented the central supervision and inspection system for environmental protection… spurring historic, defining and across-the-board changes in
the ecological and environmental protection drive.” This comment is a fair evaluation
of what we have achieved, which is there for all to see and is inseparable from Xi
Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, including his important statements on
the reform of the system for developing an ecological civilization.
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on one or several elements of ecological civilization to comprehensively promoting
the coordinated development of ecological culture, ecological industry, ecological
consumption, ecological environment, ecological resources, ecological technology,
ecological institutions, ecological villages, and ecological cities.
The construction of institutions for developing an ecological civilization has
expanded a single institution to a set of institutions, and built a complete set and
structure of institutions. China has not only tried institutions imported, but also
invented its own institutions; converged the once-separated formal, informal institutions and implementation mechanisms, with informal institutions and implementation mechanisms to support the introduction of formal institutions. The performance
of institutions has been much improved. The economic development and ecological
protection are mutually dependent and inseparable, leading to a not only safer but
also more beautiful ecological environment.
It took China only decades to achieve industrialization which took developed
countries centuries. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has managed to
halt the degeneration of and see much improvement in the environmental quality,
a transition that took developed countries at least 30 to 50 years, or more than
100 years at most in the course of industrialization. Xi Jinping pointed out at
the National Conference on Eco-environmental Protection: “Since the 18th CPC
National Congress, we have carried out a series of fundamental, pioneering and
long-term work, accelerated the top-level design and the construction of the set of
institutions for promoting ecological progress, strengthened the rule of law, and
established and implemented the central supervision and inspection system for environmental protection… spurring historic, defining and across-the-board changes in
the ecological and environmental protection drive.” This comment is a fair evaluation
of what we have achieved, which is there for all to see and is inseparable from Xi
Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, including his important statements on
the reform of the system for developing an ecological civilization.