Guiding Global Climate Governance and Domestic Response …
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needs of domestic resource conservation, environmental protection and sustainable
development, with more consideration directed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions
to ensure the planet’s ecological security—starting from the historical mission of
making new and greater contributions to mankind, to making the goal and measures
to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions, compared with the peak year, by
2050 and achieve zero emissions. We should take the goal of actively responding to
climate change as an important part of the overall goal of building China as a modern
and powerful socialist country, and make contributions to the global response to
climate change that are in line with our national strength and international influence
at that time, in order to assume our responsibility and take the lead to pursue global
ecological civilization development and the common interests of mankind and to
build a modern socialist China and ensure global ecological security at the same
time.
At present, China is at the intersection of the 13th Five-Year Plan period for
building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and the 14th Five-Year Plan,
where our country has embarked on a new journey of socialist modernization. We
should follow the proposal of the 19th National Congress to accelerate the reform of
the ecological civilization system, promote a sound economic structure that facilitates
green, low-carbon, and circular development, win the war on pollution prevention
and control, build a beautiful China, and contribute to global ecological security.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan and 14th Five-Year Plan periods, it is necessary
to use Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as a guide to give play to
the synergistic effect of carbon dioxide emission reduction and preservation of the
environment, and to coordinate deployment and strengthen actions. Currently, it is
necessary to combine the strategic deployment of building a moderately prosperous
society in all respects, and while implementing a series of policy measures such as
promoting the building of an ecological civilization and fighting the war on pollution,
we should improve the ecological environment and reduce carbon dioxide emissions
at the same time; moreover, while pursuing the short-term target of dealing with and
preventing regional environmental pollution, we should strive to achieve the longterm goal of low-carbon development and carbon dioxide emission reduction. We
should coordinate governance of the economy, energy, and the environment with
response to climate change to create a win-win situation for all.
Besides achieving urgent emission reduction targets and following emission
reduction paths, we should encourage breakthroughs in revolutionary advanced technologies, such as large-scale energy storage technology and smart grid technology
with a large proportion of renewable electricity grids in place; Bio-energy with carbon
capture and storage (BECCS), a process of extracting bio-energy from biomass and
capturing and storing the carbon, thereby achieving negative carbon dioxide emissions; the preparation, storage and utilization technology of hydrogen, considered as
a clean zero-carbon secondary source of energy; and zero-carbon production technology for raw materials such as chemicals, steel, and cement etc. It is necessary
to strengthen R&D and demonstration projects of these revolutionary technologies,
and increase investment to make breakthroughs as soon as possible to quickly industrialize them before turning them into mature and affordable products for realizing
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needs of domestic resource conservation, environmental protection and sustainable
development, with more consideration directed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions
to ensure the planet’s ecological security—starting from the historical mission of
making new and greater contributions to mankind, to making the goal and measures
to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions, compared with the peak year, by
2050 and achieve zero emissions. We should take the goal of actively responding to
climate change as an important part of the overall goal of building China as a modern
and powerful socialist country, and make contributions to the global response to
climate change that are in line with our national strength and international influence
at that time, in order to assume our responsibility and take the lead to pursue global
ecological civilization development and the common interests of mankind and to
build a modern socialist China and ensure global ecological security at the same
time.
At present, China is at the intersection of the 13th Five-Year Plan period for
building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and the 14th Five-Year Plan,
where our country has embarked on a new journey of socialist modernization. We
should follow the proposal of the 19th National Congress to accelerate the reform of
the ecological civilization system, promote a sound economic structure that facilitates
green, low-carbon, and circular development, win the war on pollution prevention
and control, build a beautiful China, and contribute to global ecological security.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan and 14th Five-Year Plan periods, it is necessary
to use Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as a guide to give play to
the synergistic effect of carbon dioxide emission reduction and preservation of the
environment, and to coordinate deployment and strengthen actions. Currently, it is
necessary to combine the strategic deployment of building a moderately prosperous
society in all respects, and while implementing a series of policy measures such as
promoting the building of an ecological civilization and fighting the war on pollution,
we should improve the ecological environment and reduce carbon dioxide emissions
at the same time; moreover, while pursuing the short-term target of dealing with and
preventing regional environmental pollution, we should strive to achieve the longterm goal of low-carbon development and carbon dioxide emission reduction. We
should coordinate governance of the economy, energy, and the environment with
response to climate change to create a win-win situation for all.
Besides achieving urgent emission reduction targets and following emission
reduction paths, we should encourage breakthroughs in revolutionary advanced technologies, such as large-scale energy storage technology and smart grid technology
with a large proportion of renewable electricity grids in place; Bio-energy with carbon
capture and storage (BECCS), a process of extracting bio-energy from biomass and
capturing and storing the carbon, thereby achieving negative carbon dioxide emissions; the preparation, storage and utilization technology of hydrogen, considered as
a clean zero-carbon secondary source of energy; and zero-carbon production technology for raw materials such as chemicals, steel, and cement etc. It is necessary
to strengthen R&D and demonstration projects of these revolutionary technologies,
and increase investment to make breakthroughs as soon as possible to quickly industrialize them before turning them into mature and affordable products for realizing