Exploring the Road to the Law-Based Green …
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national governance system and capabilities, to achieve the integrated green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, we must remove the barriers of local interests and institutional barriers, and use law to improve the administrative regulation
mechanism. First, a unified river basin management agency should be established. We
may reform the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission and the Changjiang
River Administration of Navigational Affairs and set up a dedicated administration
for Yangtze River Economic Belt, which shall directly report to the State Council, not
any ministry or commission under the State Council. The administration will consist
of administrative heads in provinces and cities along the Yangtze River to realize
centralized leadership, coordinate departments and exert direct control. Second, we
need to rationally allocate administrative powers, strengthen cooperation between
localities and departments, and establish a regular mechanism for consultation and
cooperation.
3. Improving the judicial cooperation mechanism
We should give full play to the role of judicial organs in safeguarding green development and embody the vision of ecological civilization in judicial work. Based
on green development and in-basin coordination, we should explore the model of
cooperation between in-basin courts and procuratorial organs, between public security organs, procuratorial organs and courts of the same locality, and between courts
and ecology & environment authorities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. We
should introduce new legal institutional designs for judicial cooperation, promote
the law-based, regular model of judicial cooperation, and form a basic framework of “top-level design + independent exploration” and a judicial collaboration
model for cases about the protection and development of ecological environment
and natural resources. The goal is to realize judicial cooperation in environmental
cases, including joint development of judicial standards through consultation, standardizing case filing and litigation services, and realizing cross-regional centralized
jurisdiction. Specific mechanisms involved include the information sharing mechanism for major environmental cases, judicial execution coordination mechanism,
judicial service coordination mechanism, judicial big data application mechanism,
the uniform interaction and communication mechanism for law application, and the
coordination mechanism for cross-regional environmental public interest litigation
and environmental damage compensation.
4. Improving the environmental governance system
Environmental crisis is a common challenge for mankind. The building of an ecological civilization requires the concerted efforts of the government, the society, enterprises and individuals. The report to the 19th CPC National Congress clearly states
that: “We will step up institution building in social governance and improve the lawbased social governance model under which Party committees exercise leadership,
government assumes responsibility, non-governmental actors provide assistance, and
the public get involved.” While vigorously promoting the green development of
the Yangtze River Economic Belt, we need to change the traditional environmental
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national governance system and capabilities, to achieve the integrated green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, we must remove the barriers of local interests and institutional barriers, and use law to improve the administrative regulation
mechanism. First, a unified river basin management agency should be established. We
may reform the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission and the Changjiang
River Administration of Navigational Affairs and set up a dedicated administration
for Yangtze River Economic Belt, which shall directly report to the State Council, not
any ministry or commission under the State Council. The administration will consist
of administrative heads in provinces and cities along the Yangtze River to realize
centralized leadership, coordinate departments and exert direct control. Second, we
need to rationally allocate administrative powers, strengthen cooperation between
localities and departments, and establish a regular mechanism for consultation and
cooperation.
3. Improving the judicial cooperation mechanism
We should give full play to the role of judicial organs in safeguarding green development and embody the vision of ecological civilization in judicial work. Based
on green development and in-basin coordination, we should explore the model of
cooperation between in-basin courts and procuratorial organs, between public security organs, procuratorial organs and courts of the same locality, and between courts
and ecology & environment authorities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. We
should introduce new legal institutional designs for judicial cooperation, promote
the law-based, regular model of judicial cooperation, and form a basic framework of “top-level design + independent exploration” and a judicial collaboration
model for cases about the protection and development of ecological environment
and natural resources. The goal is to realize judicial cooperation in environmental
cases, including joint development of judicial standards through consultation, standardizing case filing and litigation services, and realizing cross-regional centralized
jurisdiction. Specific mechanisms involved include the information sharing mechanism for major environmental cases, judicial execution coordination mechanism,
judicial service coordination mechanism, judicial big data application mechanism,
the uniform interaction and communication mechanism for law application, and the
coordination mechanism for cross-regional environmental public interest litigation
and environmental damage compensation.
4. Improving the environmental governance system
Environmental crisis is a common challenge for mankind. The building of an ecological civilization requires the concerted efforts of the government, the society, enterprises and individuals. The report to the 19th CPC National Congress clearly states
that: “We will step up institution building in social governance and improve the lawbased social governance model under which Party committees exercise leadership,
government assumes responsibility, non-governmental actors provide assistance, and
the public get involved.” While vigorously promoting the green development of
the Yangtze River Economic Belt, we need to change the traditional environmental