Lawyers’ Legal Services for Developing
an Ecological Civilization
Yiming Dong
1 The Development of Law-Based Ecological Conservation
The guiding role of the rule-of-law thinking is crucial to promoting ecological conservation. With the ecological civilization drive unfolds, it’s imperative to seek institutional and policy innovation to promote institutionalized and law-based practices,
strengthen national and local legislation, exercise strict law enforcement, and ramp
up judicial support for ecological protection. China’s current law-based ecological
progress is mainly reflected in such areas as the policy system, legal sources, administration, and judicial remedies, and basically the rule of law in this regard is progressing
in both breadth and depth.
1. The policy system: the top-level design is more and more specific
According to the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Some Major Issues
Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform adopted at the Third Plenary
Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee: “To develop an ecological civilization, it
is necessary to establish a systematic and complete set of institutions for promoting
ecological progress, implement the strictest source protection system, system for
compensating for ecological damage and the accountability system, improve environmental governance and ecological restoration system, and protect the ecological
environment with institutions.” The 19th CPC National Congress proposed that to
“speed up the reform of the system for developing an ecological civilization and build
a beautiful China,” it is necessary to provide more high-quality ecological products
to meet the people’s growing demand for a beautiful ecological environment, intensify ecosystem protection, and reform the environmental regulation system. At the
2018 National Conference on Eco-environmental Protection, Xi Jinping put forward
six principles and five ecological civilization systems for developing an ecological
civilization. As people get a clearer and deeper understanding of the connotation
Y. Dong (B)
Jointide (Beijing) Law Firm, Jinan, 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_66
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an Ecological Civilization
Yiming Dong
1 The Development of Law-Based Ecological Conservation
The guiding role of the rule-of-law thinking is crucial to promoting ecological conservation. With the ecological civilization drive unfolds, it’s imperative to seek institutional and policy innovation to promote institutionalized and law-based practices,
strengthen national and local legislation, exercise strict law enforcement, and ramp
up judicial support for ecological protection. China’s current law-based ecological
progress is mainly reflected in such areas as the policy system, legal sources, administration, and judicial remedies, and basically the rule of law in this regard is progressing
in both breadth and depth.
1. The policy system: the top-level design is more and more specific
According to the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Some Major Issues
Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform adopted at the Third Plenary
Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee: “To develop an ecological civilization, it
is necessary to establish a systematic and complete set of institutions for promoting
ecological progress, implement the strictest source protection system, system for
compensating for ecological damage and the accountability system, improve environmental governance and ecological restoration system, and protect the ecological
environment with institutions.” The 19th CPC National Congress proposed that to
“speed up the reform of the system for developing an ecological civilization and build
a beautiful China,” it is necessary to provide more high-quality ecological products
to meet the people’s growing demand for a beautiful ecological environment, intensify ecosystem protection, and reform the environmental regulation system. At the
2018 National Conference on Eco-environmental Protection, Xi Jinping put forward
six principles and five ecological civilization systems for developing an ecological
civilization. As people get a clearer and deeper understanding of the connotation
Y. Dong (B)
Jointide (Beijing) Law Firm, Jinan, 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_66
669