Original title: comprehensively promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature by building a beautiful China
At the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "We must take the promotion of Chinese style modernization as the biggest politics, unite the vast majority of people under the unified leadership of the Party, focus on the central work of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, and gradually turn the grand blueprint of Chinese style modernization into a beautiful reality." The ecological environment system should firmly support the "two establishment" and "two maintenance", deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, especially Xi Jinping's thought of ecological civilization, comprehensively implement the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference and the National Conference on Ecological Environment Protection, and firmly act as the pacesetter and main force in building a beautiful China, Support high-quality development with high-quality ecological environment, and comprehensively promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with the construction of a beautiful China.
Perseverance and profound understanding of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought
In July 2023, the CPC Central Committee reconvened the National Ecological Environment Protection Conference, which is a new milestone in the field of ecological civilization construction in the new era and new journey. General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered an important speech, comprehensively summarized the remarkable achievements of China's ecological civilization construction in the new era, especially the "four major changes", profoundly expounded the "five major relationships" that need to be handled to promote the construction of ecological civilization on the new journey, and systematically deployed the "six major tasks" to comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China, It clearly put forward the "one major requirement" of adhering to and strengthening the comprehensive leadership of the Party, realized the innovative development of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought on the basis of practice, and provided a fundamental compliance and action guide for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China and accelerating the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
The ecological environment system should consolidate and expand the achievements of theme education, unremittingly use Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era to solidify the soul, further learn and understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the National Ecological Environment Protection Conference, and deeply internalize the Party's innovative theory into a powerful ideological weapon to guide the comprehensive promotion of the construction of a beautiful China, Conscientiously be a firm believer, active communicator and loyal practitioner of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, and always forge ahead in the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping and the CPC Central Committee. We should closely link the vivid practice and great achievements of ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection in the new era, deeply understand the truth and practical power of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, deeply grasp the world outlook, methodology, and positions and views throughout this thought, further strengthen historical confidence, enhance historical initiative, and deepen the understanding of laws, We will make the ideas, methods and measures of building a beautiful China to comprehensively promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature more complete, more scientific and more solid. We should unswervingly adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership over the construction of ecological civilization, give full play to the political advantages of the Party's leadership, plan and promote the ecological environment protection work of the new journey with a higher position, a broader vision and greater strength, and fundamentally ensure that the blueprint for a beautiful China is gradually turned into reality.
Perseverance and great mission of building a beautiful China
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, the ecological environment system fully implements the spirit of the Twentieth National Congress of the Party, earnestly studies and implements the spirit of the National Ecological Environment Protection Conference, better plans for development and protection, and deepens the battle against pollution, While fully supporting the overall improvement of the service economy, we firmly withstood the multiple pressures of substantial increase in pollutant emissions and extremely adverse meteorological conditions brought about by the economic recovery after the epidemic prevention and control transition, and achieved good results in the steady improvement of ecological environment quality. In 2023, the average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM) in cities at prefecture level and above will be 30 μ g/m3, which is better than the annual target set in the 14th Five Year Plan by nearly 3 μ g/m3; The national excellent days ratio is 85.5%, and 86.8% after deducting the days of abnormal sand dust, which is 0.6 percentage points better than the annual target. The proportion of national excellent surface water quality sections was 89.4%, up 1.5 percentage points year on year; The water quality along the main stream of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River remained stable at Class II; The proportion of the area of coastal waters with excellent seawater quality nationwide was 85.0%, up 3.1 percentage points year on year. The safe use of polluted farmland and key construction land across the country has been effectively guaranteed, and the national rural domestic sewage treatment (control) rate has reached more than 40%. National ecological quality is generally good, nuclear and radiation safety is stable and controllable, and environmental risks are effectively controlled. These achievements are hard won and lay a good foundation for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China.
At the same time, we are also soberly aware that China's ecological civilization construction is still in a critical period of pressure superposition and heavy load forward, the green and low-carbon transformation of the development mode has a long way to go, the structural, root and trend pressure of ecological environmental protection has not been fundamentally alleviated, and the contradiction between limited environmental capacity and high total pollutant emissions is still prominent, The foundation for stable and good ecological environment quality is not yet solid, the pressure on ecological environment security continues to increase, the modern environmental governance system is not perfect, and the global environmental governance situation is becoming more complex. History and reality show that modernization will not fall from the sky, and beautiful China will never be achieved easily. We must maintain strategic clarity and strategic concentration, make long-term hard efforts, and work hard for a long time.
In December 2023, the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China was issued, further clarifying the overall requirements, key tasks and major measures for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. It is a programmatic document for systematic deployment and guidance of comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. The ecological environment system should constantly improve its political judgment, political understanding and political execution, have a mind of "the biggest country", carefully benchmark, accurately grasp the situation and tasks facing the construction of a beautiful China, anchor the basic realization of the goal of a beautiful China by 2035, adhere to the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, advance before breaking, and coordinate industrial restructuring, pollution control, ecological protection In response to climate change, we should work together to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, accelerate the improvement of ecological environment quality from quantitative change to qualitative change, and accelerate the formation of a new pattern of building a beautiful China guided by the modernization of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. Give full play to the function of coordination, establish and improve the implementation system and mechanism of building a beautiful China, strengthen departmental coordination, deepen local practice, and form a strong joint force to jointly build and share a beautiful China. Focusing on the construction of a beautiful China pilot area, we will step up efforts to build a model for the construction of a beautiful China, focus on major regional strategies to build a green development highland, adapt measures to local conditions to create a beautiful city and countryside, continue to focus on the construction of beautiful rivers and lakes, beautiful bays, and cultivate beautiful cells such as ecological communities. With improving the quality of ecological environment as the core, we will continue to deepen the battle of defending blue sky, clear water and clean land, implement a number of landmark actions and innovative measures with higher standards, promote pollution prevention and control to achieve new breakthroughs in key areas, key areas and key indicators, and constantly enhance people's sense of well-being and security of ecological environment.
Persist in ensuring high-quality development with high-level protection support
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "In the whole process of Chinese style modernization, we must grasp the dialectical and unified relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection." High quality development and high-level protection are complementary and mutually reinforcing. High quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and it is the development of green becoming a universal form, High level protection is the proper meaning and important support of high-quality development. Ecological priority, green and low-carbon high-quality development can only be achieved by relying on high-level protection. On the new journey, we must keep in mind that high-quality development is the hard truth of the new era, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, take overall high-quality development and high-level protection as the guide, and constantly shape new momentum and new advantages of development through high-level protection, build a green low-carbon circular economy system, promote the accelerated development of new quality productivity, and plant the green background of high-quality development, Continue to enhance the potential and stamina of development.
The ecological environment system should focus on the central work of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, consciously integrate ecological environment protection into the overall situation of economic and social development, deepen the policies and measures of ecological environment service and economic recovery to support high-quality development, strengthen the environmental assessment guarantee of major investment projects on the basis of keeping the bottom line of ecological environment protection, and promote environmental protection and finance Monetary, employment, industry, region, science and technology and other policies should be coordinated to form a policy synergy and market-oriented mechanism to support green and low-carbon development, foster and strengthen ecological and environmental protection industries, create a new engine for green growth, and make every effort to serve and support the continuous improvement of economic operation. Keep the strategic focus on strengthening the construction of ecological civilization, give full play to the role of high-level protection as a support and guarantee, and promote the green transformation of industrial structure, energy structure, transportation structure, urban and rural construction and development by improving the quality of ecological environment, carbon peaking and carbon neutralization to force the total emission reduction, source emission reduction, and structural emission reduction, To strengthen the management and control of ecological environment zoning and optimize the pattern of land space development and protection, "clear the bottom line", "draw the border", "add green and gold" for high-quality development, and realize the benign interaction of high-level protection, high-quality environment, and high-quality development. We should coordinate development and security, strictly prevent and control ecological environment risks, earnestly maintain ecological security, ensure nuclear and radiation safety, ensure that the natural environment and conditions on which we rely for survival and development are not threatened and damaged, and firmly adhere to the bottom line of building a beautiful China.
Persist in implementing the policy of precise, scientific and legal pollution control
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "we should adhere to the principle of precise, scientific and legal pollution control", which provides an important methodology and fundamental policy for in-depth promotion of pollution prevention and control, and also provides an action guide for ecological and environmental departments to better serve economic and social development based on their functional responsibilities. At present, with the continuous deepening of pollution prevention and control, the contradictions involved are deeper, broader and more demanding. On the new journey, to plan and promote the work of ecological environment protection with higher standards, we must comprehensively and accurately implement the policies of precise, scientific and legal pollution control, and comprehensively improve the modernization of ecological environment management.
Strengthen accurate thinking. "The world's major events must be done in detail." Ecological environment governance should strengthen accurate thinking, and do a solid job with embroidery skills. Analyze and find out the main and secondary contradictions that affect the quality of the ecological environment, as well as the main and secondary aspects of the contradictions, so as to be clear about them, clarify the main direction of attack, seize the "big head", create conditions, and implement precise policies. Be good at using figures to speak and make decisions, make great efforts to carry out investigation and research, make detailed argumentation and assessment, calculate the expected emission reduction and actual improvement effect of environmental quality of each pollution control measure as carefully as possible, and make every measure, step and link solid and refined to achieve the best governance effect. According to the objectives and tasks of environmental quality improvement and the schedule requirements, combined with meteorological conditions, human activities and other factors, we should grasp the relationship between peacetime governance and key period governance, focus more on peacetime, and strive for initiative and leave room for completing the annual objectives and tasks.
Strengthen scientific thinking. Ecological environment governance is a science, which must adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts, seeking truth and pragmatism, and consciously act in accordance with objective laws. It is necessary to scientifically analyze the deep root causes behind the ecological environment problems, focus on the environmental pollution and ecological damage caused by the activities of industry, energy, transportation and other people, rather than the problems caused by natural factors, and then take targeted measures to address both symptoms and root causes, so as to promote the fundamental solution of the problems. Understand and apply scientific laws, be good at judging the composition of pollution emission sources and the change of contribution amount from the environmental monitoring and traceability results, analyze and find the characteristics of regional environmental pollution, industrial structure and energy structure, and use this as a scientific basis to treat the symptoms and improve the effectiveness of pollution control. Put the system concept throughout the whole process of ecological protection and environmental governance, and take the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction as the traction to strengthen the system governance, source governance, and comprehensive governance, and enhance the relevance and consistency of various measures. Do not treat the problem with headache, foot pain, foot pain, or care about one thing and lose another. Adhere to the principle of adjusting measures to local conditions and implementing policies by category, reasonably set governance evaluation standards according to the natural resource endowment and ecological environment capacity of different regions, and adopt different governance methods. While taking engineering measures, we should also make good use of "nature based solutions", instead of blindly pursuing high standards and full coverage.
We should strengthen the rule of law thinking. "The country is strong if the people who obey the law are strong, and the country is weak if the people who obey the law are weak." Observing and strictly implementing the law is the bottom line of the national public officials, and it is also unconditional. We must not implement the law if we agree with it, or not implement it if we disagree with it. We cannot regard the law as a soft constraint or an empty paper on the shelf. The work of ecological environment protection is highly political, people oriented, and law based. We must respect the rule of law, fear the law, administer according to law, perform duties according to law, and be good at using the rule of law thinking and method to carry out work. Adhere to the principle of taking facts as the basis and laws as the criterion, properly handle the relationship between purpose and means, strictly standardize the law enforcement procedures, strictly observe the statutory time limit for handling, further improve the quality of law enforcement, do not resort to unscrupulous means to achieve the purpose, and resolutely prevent simple and crude law enforcement, arbitrary law enforcement, and arbitrary punishment.
Constantly improve the ability to implement
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed the importance of practical work and implementation, and regarded implementation as one of the basic abilities that party members and cadres must have. At the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again stressed the extreme importance of implementing, and asked us to implement without compromise, vigorously, realistically and pragmatically, and courageously. At present, the blueprint for a beautiful China has been drawn, and the goals and tasks have been clearly defined. The key is to work hard to overcome difficulties and ensure that the decisions and arrangements of the Central Committee of the Party are fully implemented and effective.
The ecological environment system should further improve its political position, place the building of a beautiful China in a prominent position in the building of a strong country and national rejuvenation, strengthen political consciousness, know how to bear heavy responsibilities, overcome difficulties, and shoulder responsibilities, and work hard with a full spirit and pragmatic work style, one task at a time, one link at a time. Adhere to the goal oriented and problem oriented approach, further strengthen investigation and research, deepen reform and innovation, constantly make new breakthroughs in key areas, key links and weak points, and solve the deep-seated contradictions and recurring problems faced by the development of ecological environmental protection, in view of the characteristics of ecological environmental governance, which is characterized by a wide range of points, new and old contradictions, and accumulated pressure, Efforts should be made to build an ecological civilization system and mechanism conducive to promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. Adhere to the people centered development thought and high-quality development orientation, vigorously promote the pragmatic style, resolutely rectify the violation of natural laws, engage in sudden attack, simplification, "one size fits all" and other formalistic issues, and constantly win the trust of the people by improving the effectiveness of ecological environment quality. We will comprehensively strengthen ideological refining, political training, practical training, and professional training, vigorously promote the Marxist style of learning that integrates theory with practice, purposefully address weaknesses, strengths, and weaknesses, practice basic skills, master master skills, constantly improve the ability to solve practical problems, and demonstrate new responsibilities and new achievements with excellent skills.
(Author: Sun Jinlong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Ecological Environment)
