Global Transformation of China’s Ecological Civilization …
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and the management system, have been continuously improved, strengthened and
highlighted. The “multiple pillars” reform of the ecological civilization system have
been established with emerging beneficial results. Moreover, the report of the 19th
National Congress emphasized, once again, the importance of establishing an ecological civilization system from many aspects, including “stepping up efforts to establish a legal and policy framework that promotes green production and consumption,”
“improving environment management systems,” and “enforcing stricter pollutants
discharge standards and seeing to it that polluters are held accountable. We will
improve our systems for credibility assessment based on environmental protection
performance, for mandatory release of environmental information, and for imposing
severe punishment for environmental violations.”—all of which have put forward
new requirements for building an ecological civilization system in a new era.
In general, building an ecological civilization requires efforts in the following
aspects: The first is to accelerate the improvement of the property rights system for
natural resources and assets and the use control system, delineate the red line for
ecological protection, and promote the “natural balance sheet,” in order to provide a
fundamental legal basis and system guarantee for instilling the “concept of nature’s
value and capital”; The second is to clarify the spatial planning system by “combing
regulations into one” with integrated planning for land use, urban construction, industrial layout, pollution control, and ecological protection; The third is to accelerate the
establishment of an ecological compensation mechanism and an ecological compensation fiscal policy system, strengthen the overall conservation system, improve the
function of resource wealth compensation and the transformation to social costs, and
lay the foundation for creating a legal system for green production and consumption;
The fourth is to speed up the establishment of the target evaluation and accountability
system for ecological civilization construction, supervise the party and government
leaders at all levels and guide them to actively advance ecological civilization to
reverse their idea of “pursuing GDP only” so that they can gain a new concept about
political performance in the ecological civilization governance system; The fifth is to
speed up the establishment of an environmental damage assessment system, deepen
the reform of the national environmental damage compensation system, and promote
the concept that “the environment has value, and those who damage it will be subject
to punishment” to support ecological restoration and the like.
4. Contributing to global ecological security
The report of the 19th National Congress clearly required that we should have a
strong commitment to socialist ecological civilization and work to develop a new
model of modernization with humans developing in harmony with nature. This was
not only a signal, but also a promise to the world, and a Chinese approach to building
a community with a shared future for mankind.
China has taken responsibility for handling global ecological security issues by
advancing the negotiation, conclusion, effectiveness and implementation of the Paris
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and the management system, have been continuously improved, strengthened and
highlighted. The “multiple pillars” reform of the ecological civilization system have
been established with emerging beneficial results. Moreover, the report of the 19th
National Congress emphasized, once again, the importance of establishing an ecological civilization system from many aspects, including “stepping up efforts to establish a legal and policy framework that promotes green production and consumption,”
“improving environment management systems,” and “enforcing stricter pollutants
discharge standards and seeing to it that polluters are held accountable. We will
improve our systems for credibility assessment based on environmental protection
performance, for mandatory release of environmental information, and for imposing
severe punishment for environmental violations.”—all of which have put forward
new requirements for building an ecological civilization system in a new era.
In general, building an ecological civilization requires efforts in the following
aspects: The first is to accelerate the improvement of the property rights system for
natural resources and assets and the use control system, delineate the red line for
ecological protection, and promote the “natural balance sheet,” in order to provide a
fundamental legal basis and system guarantee for instilling the “concept of nature’s
value and capital”; The second is to clarify the spatial planning system by “combing
regulations into one” with integrated planning for land use, urban construction, industrial layout, pollution control, and ecological protection; The third is to accelerate the
establishment of an ecological compensation mechanism and an ecological compensation fiscal policy system, strengthen the overall conservation system, improve the
function of resource wealth compensation and the transformation to social costs, and
lay the foundation for creating a legal system for green production and consumption;
The fourth is to speed up the establishment of the target evaluation and accountability
system for ecological civilization construction, supervise the party and government
leaders at all levels and guide them to actively advance ecological civilization to
reverse their idea of “pursuing GDP only” so that they can gain a new concept about
political performance in the ecological civilization governance system; The fifth is to
speed up the establishment of an environmental damage assessment system, deepen
the reform of the national environmental damage compensation system, and promote
the concept that “the environment has value, and those who damage it will be subject
to punishment” to support ecological restoration and the like.
4. Contributing to global ecological security
The report of the 19th National Congress clearly required that we should have a
strong commitment to socialist ecological civilization and work to develop a new
model of modernization with humans developing in harmony with nature. This was
not only a signal, but also a promise to the world, and a Chinese approach to building
a community with a shared future for mankind.
China has taken responsibility for handling global ecological security issues by
advancing the negotiation, conclusion, effectiveness and implementation of the Paris