Preventing Environmental Risks
from the Perspective of Territorial Space
Planning
He Xu
China is a country that has a vast territory, with great differences in various regions
in terms of economic and social development, natural resources, and the diversity
and fragility of the ecosystem. Therefore, the types and degrees of environmental
security issues faced by regions across China are different. In general, accidental
and cumulative environmental risks exist side by side in China, where its ecosystems
of air, water and soil are facing complex and considerable risks. The 13th FiveYear Plan is vital for China’s economic restructuring, social transformation, and
the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects. From the period of
the 13th Five-Year Plan onwards, China will still face formidable environmental
risks that impose serious constraints on the sustainable advance of its economy and
society. The development of ecological civilization inevitably comes with various
environmental risks arising from the intensified contradictions between human and
nature. In a sense, the concept of ecological civilization is the goal of preventing
environmental risks. In other words, ecological civilization aims to realize recycling
of material and energy on the premise that environmental risks can be effectively
prevented and eliminated.
At the National Conference on Eco-environmental Protection held in May 2018,
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we must effectively forestall environmental risks. Environmental security is a key component of national security
and an important safeguard for the continuation of healthy socioeconomic development. We must make management of environmental risks a regular practice, carefully constructing a multi-leveled environmental risk prevention system that monitors
these risks at every stage. We must speed up the structural reforms in the ecological
domain, focus on implementing reform measures that have already been launched,
and formulate new reform plans in a timely manner. Prevention of environmental
risks has become a major issue for China, and environmental risk issues—latent
and continuous in nature—are closely linked to the spatial distribution of China’s
H. Xu (B)
Institute of Ecological Civilization, Nankai University, Tianjin, 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_74
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from the Perspective of Territorial Space
Planning
He Xu
China is a country that has a vast territory, with great differences in various regions
in terms of economic and social development, natural resources, and the diversity
and fragility of the ecosystem. Therefore, the types and degrees of environmental
security issues faced by regions across China are different. In general, accidental
and cumulative environmental risks exist side by side in China, where its ecosystems
of air, water and soil are facing complex and considerable risks. The 13th FiveYear Plan is vital for China’s economic restructuring, social transformation, and
the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects. From the period of
the 13th Five-Year Plan onwards, China will still face formidable environmental
risks that impose serious constraints on the sustainable advance of its economy and
society. The development of ecological civilization inevitably comes with various
environmental risks arising from the intensified contradictions between human and
nature. In a sense, the concept of ecological civilization is the goal of preventing
environmental risks. In other words, ecological civilization aims to realize recycling
of material and energy on the premise that environmental risks can be effectively
prevented and eliminated.
At the National Conference on Eco-environmental Protection held in May 2018,
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we must effectively forestall environmental risks. Environmental security is a key component of national security
and an important safeguard for the continuation of healthy socioeconomic development. We must make management of environmental risks a regular practice, carefully constructing a multi-leveled environmental risk prevention system that monitors
these risks at every stage. We must speed up the structural reforms in the ecological
domain, focus on implementing reform measures that have already been launched,
and formulate new reform plans in a timely manner. Prevention of environmental
risks has become a major issue for China, and environmental risk issues—latent
and continuous in nature—are closely linked to the spatial distribution of China’s
H. Xu (B)
Institute of Ecological Civilization, Nankai University, Tianjin, 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_74
747