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Y. Wang
4 Suggestions for Improving the Ecological Civilization
System
We should strengthen the CPC’s leadership in building an ecological civilization
and promoting system and mechanism innovations. To tackle the problem of low
enthusiasm in some local authorities, we should enhance monitoring, evaluation, and
supervision in the process of the reform to keep track of progress; make good use
of data platforms, scientific evaluations, audits, inspections, reviews, accountability
systems, damage compensations and the like in coordination; provide more support
for specific regions (especially central and western China) where more active efforts
are made for innovations, environmental protection tasks are especially onerous, and
transition to green development is more difficult. Thus, we will encourage innovations
for ecological civilization development at the local level and boost local stakeholder
engagement.
We should step up our efforts to build an ecological civilization and promote the
rule of law. Efforts should be made to promote the “greening” of the legal system and
coordinate for the formulation and revision of relevant laws, regulations and standards
in accordance with the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan; step up legislation efforts in key
fields such as land resources management, environmental protection, and climate
change response, and coordinate for the formulation and revision of laws and regulations on delegated legislation concerning ecological civilization development; study
the feasibility of regional and river basin-based legislation; accelerate the improvement of the legislative capabilities of local legislatures, especially legislatures of cities
with districts under their jurisdiction who have only recently been granted legislative
power; strengthen the enforcement of ecological civilization-related laws and build
dedicated trial mechanisms, institutions and procedures in a rational manner.
We should prioritize environmental protection, promote green development, and
formulate a plan for the Beautiful China campaign as well as for the transition to
a green economy. We should push for the formulation of a plan for the Beautiful
China 2050 campaign; define strategies, goals, policies and action plans for green,
low-carbon and sustainable development towards 2035 and 2050; build consensuses,
pool resources and promote stakeholder participation; forge good political, social and
market expectations for green innovation and green transformation; develop industrial and product standards based on targets for energy conservation, environmental
protection, and emission reduction so as to promote the green transformation and
upgrading of the manufacturing industry; and establish green transformation funds
to support to the relocation of industries and enterprises to the central and western
regions with relevant technologies and financial resources.
We should clarify the relationship between systems, drive system integration with
breakthroughs towards the completion of basic tasks, and advance pilot projects with
enhanced efforts, so as to effectively reduce the costs of the ecological civilization
system reform. Specifically, we should do more research into the relationship between
reform tasks, further clarify the basic functions of each system, and on this basis,
incorporate relevant tasks into a comprehensive framework designed with clearly
Y. Wang
4 Suggestions for Improving the Ecological Civilization
System
We should strengthen the CPC’s leadership in building an ecological civilization
and promoting system and mechanism innovations. To tackle the problem of low
enthusiasm in some local authorities, we should enhance monitoring, evaluation, and
supervision in the process of the reform to keep track of progress; make good use
of data platforms, scientific evaluations, audits, inspections, reviews, accountability
systems, damage compensations and the like in coordination; provide more support
for specific regions (especially central and western China) where more active efforts
are made for innovations, environmental protection tasks are especially onerous, and
transition to green development is more difficult. Thus, we will encourage innovations
for ecological civilization development at the local level and boost local stakeholder
engagement.
We should step up our efforts to build an ecological civilization and promote the
rule of law. Efforts should be made to promote the “greening” of the legal system and
coordinate for the formulation and revision of relevant laws, regulations and standards
in accordance with the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan; step up legislation efforts in key
fields such as land resources management, environmental protection, and climate
change response, and coordinate for the formulation and revision of laws and regulations on delegated legislation concerning ecological civilization development; study
the feasibility of regional and river basin-based legislation; accelerate the improvement of the legislative capabilities of local legislatures, especially legislatures of cities
with districts under their jurisdiction who have only recently been granted legislative
power; strengthen the enforcement of ecological civilization-related laws and build
dedicated trial mechanisms, institutions and procedures in a rational manner.
We should prioritize environmental protection, promote green development, and
formulate a plan for the Beautiful China campaign as well as for the transition to
a green economy. We should push for the formulation of a plan for the Beautiful
China 2050 campaign; define strategies, goals, policies and action plans for green,
low-carbon and sustainable development towards 2035 and 2050; build consensuses,
pool resources and promote stakeholder participation; forge good political, social and
market expectations for green innovation and green transformation; develop industrial and product standards based on targets for energy conservation, environmental
protection, and emission reduction so as to promote the green transformation and
upgrading of the manufacturing industry; and establish green transformation funds
to support to the relocation of industries and enterprises to the central and western
regions with relevant technologies and financial resources.
We should clarify the relationship between systems, drive system integration with
breakthroughs towards the completion of basic tasks, and advance pilot projects with
enhanced efforts, so as to effectively reduce the costs of the ecological civilization
system reform. Specifically, we should do more research into the relationship between
reform tasks, further clarify the basic functions of each system, and on this basis,
incorporate relevant tasks into a comprehensive framework designed with clearly