When it comes to the construction of ecological civilization, people will think of a song "Please come to the ends of the earth, where the seasons are always there ...", a beautiful song that people are familiar with and sings people's admiration for the beautiful environment in Hainan. Since September 2000, Hainan Province has promoted the creation of civilized ecological villages with the theme of "building ecological environment, developing ecological economy and cultivating ecological culture". As of April 2008, * * * has built 7774 civilized ecological villages, accounting for 33.4% of the total number of natural villages in the province. The local rural landscape has undergone profound changes, farmers' income has increased, and the level of civilization has improved. Qiongdao is full of flowers of ecological civilization. Hainan Province has grasped the outstanding advantages and long-term support of a good ecological environment, adhered to the principle of establishing a province by ecology, put the construction of ecological civilization and the protection of ecological environment at the forefront of economic and social development, and made remarkable achievements in development and protection during development. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward "building ecological civilization" as the new requirement of building a well-off society in an all-round way for the first time, and emphasized firmly establishing the concept of ecological civilization in the whole society, which reflected the great importance attached by the party and the government to building ecological civilization and expressed the urgent desire of the broad masses of people to share ecological civilization, which will certainly have a great impact on the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Ecological problem is an important and urgent task and a major strategic issue that human society must pay close attention to. Building ecological civilization is related to the harmonious development of economy and society, which not only affects the overall situation of development, but also determines the sustainability of development; The construction of ecological civilization is related to the fate of mankind, which not only affects the present of mankind, but also determines the future of mankind. Ecological civilization refers to the sum of material, spiritual and institutional achievements made by people in the process of transforming the objective material world, actively improving and optimizing the relationship between man and nature, and building an orderly ecological operation mechanism and a good ecological environment. The essence of building ecological civilization is to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society based on the carrying capacity of resources and environment, guided by the laws of nature and aimed at sustainable development. Historical experience tells us that ecological prosperity leads to civilization prosperity and ecological decline leads to civilization decline. The splendid Chinese civilization is closely related to the ecological conditions in the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins, while the livable environment in the Indus River basin has shaped the ancient Indian civilization. People will never forget the once prosperous ancient Egyptian civilization and ancient Babylonian civilization. The tragedy from prosperity to decline is largely due to the increasingly acute contradiction between man and nature in these areas, which leads to ecological destruction and environmental deterioration, and makes civilization submerged in the dust of history. The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future In the early and middle stage of industrialization, all developed countries in the contemporary world have taken a traditional road of industrialization, that is, pollution first and then treatment. Today's London has a beautiful environment, but it was once called "Fog Capital". 65438+In 1950s, London was a city surrounded by various factories. Smoke hangs over the city, causing serious industrial pollution and embodying the characteristics of capitalist industrialization. For a long time, especially since the industrial revolution, while human material production has made great progress, industrial civilization characterized by high input, high energy consumption and high consumption has gone beyond the reasonable scope of the earth's resources, causing serious damage to the ecological environment. Since the 1960s, human beings have increasingly reflected on and understood their relationship with nature. 1972, the United Nations issued the Declaration on the Human Environment, which solemnly declared that while developing and utilizing the environment, human beings also bear the obligation to safeguard nature. Since the 1990s, a series of landmark programmatic documents, such as Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and 2 1 Century Agenda, have been issued one after another, which indicates that the concept of ecological civilization, which marks the harmonious development between man and nature, has gradually become world knowledge. Building ecological civilization and protecting ecological environment is an important and urgent task in contemporary China. After nearly 30 years of rapid economic growth, the life of 654.38+0.3 billion people in China is gradually getting richer, and we have made remarkable development achievements. At the same time, we should also see that the ecological situation in China is still very grim. On the one hand, China's per capita resources are scarce, and the per capita cultivated land, fresh water and forests only account for 32%, 27.4% and 12.8% of the world average, and the per capita possession of resources such as oil, natural gas and iron ore is also significantly lower than the world average. The area of desertified land in China is 1739700 square kilometers, accounting for 18. 12% of the national territory. The total area of soil erosion land has reached 3.56 million square kilometers, accounting for 37.1%of the national territory; The average farmland drought area is nearly 400 million mu, the waterlogged area is 65.438+0.5 billion mu, and the grain loss is about 65.438+0.00 billion Jin. On the other hand, due to the long-term implementation of extensive economic's growth mode, China is under the pressure of traditional development model on resources and environment-in the case that most economic indicators have been basically completed, the environmental indicators stipulated in the Tenth Five-Year Plan have not been completed as scheduled. It is an arduous task to achieve the resource and environment-related planning objectives such as reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP by about 20% and reducing the total discharge of major pollutants by 10% during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period. Both history and reality have warned us that we must go beyond the development mode of traditional industrial civilization, get rid of the old road of pollution before treatment, and embark on a civilized development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology. At the same time of rapid economic and social development, we will give the people a beautiful living home, make the sky bluer and the water clearer, and leave blue sky, white clouds, green water and green hills for future generations to realize sustainable economic and social development.
The Inevitable Choice Facing the Future At the end of 2007, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice prohibiting the production, sale and use of ultra-thin plastic shopping bags nationwide from June 1 2008; At the same time, in all supermarkets, shopping malls, bazaars and other retail places, the system of paid use of plastic shopping bags shall be implemented, and plastic shopping bags shall not be provided free of charge. When the ban came out, it touched people's hearts. Once upon a time, plastic bags greatly facilitated people's daily lives because of their convenience and cheapness. However, they are increasingly becoming the main source of "white pollution". In today's increasingly serious environmental problems, should we continue to rely on the convenience of plastic bags and ignore their harm, or seriously make new choices for environmental protection? The implementation of the "Plastic Prohibition Order" fully demonstrates the firm stance and determination of the China Municipal Government to protect the environment, and also helps to further establish the concept of ecological civilization in which man and nature live in harmony in the whole society. Establishing the new goal of building ecological civilization is a new understanding, new concept and new task that our party has gained in the process of implementing the great project of Scientific Outlook on Development. From the 12th to 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we took building socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization as the main content of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the 16th National Congress put forward building socialist political civilization on this basis. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward the construction of ecological civilization, which is another sublimation of the concept of Scientific Outlook on Development and harmonious development put forward by our party, which indicates that contemporary China producers have further deepened their understanding of the law of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's construction and is a new contribution of the Chinese nation to human civilization. Building ecological civilization is the objective requirement of building a well-off society in an all-round way and China's modernization. In a populous country like China, the urgent task is to solve the problems of "low level", "incompleteness" and "imbalance" in building a higher-level well-off society that benefits more than one billion people. If we don't change the traditional development ideas and methods, continue the extensive growth mode of high investment, high energy consumption, high emission and low efficiency, and take the development road of pollution before treatment, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way. At present, China is in a period of accelerated industrialization and urbanization. Insufficient resource supply, serious energy shortage and increased environmental pressure have become the key constraints of socialist modernization. Saving resources and protecting the environment have become the basic requirements for achieving sustainable economic and social development. Under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, we have embarked on a new development path with less investment, more output, high technology content, low resource consumption, good economic benefits, less environmental pollution and full play of human resources. Building ecological civilization is the inherent requirement of implementing Scientific Outlook on Development. Scientific Outlook on Development emphasizes the internal unity of development, people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable, and adheres to the fundamental method of overall consideration. The construction of ecological civilization embodies the coordinated development of man and nature, man and man, economy and society, and is the foothold and destination of coordinating the relationship between man and nature. Meanwhile, the essence of ecological civilization is scientific development. There are contradictions and interdependence between "green mountains and green hills" and "Jinshan Yinshan", which is the relationship of unity of opposites. Green mountains and green hills can bring a steady stream of Jinshan Yinshan, which also needs a good ecological environment. Without civilized ecology, the development of productive forces cannot be sustained; The construction of ecological civilization is precisely to better liberate and develop productive forces. Only by correctly handling the relationship between rapid development and sustainable development, adhering to the development path of resource conservation and environmental protection, building an ecological civilization with a high degree of harmony between man and nature, and constantly pursuing and enjoying happiness in the vibrant green mountains and green mountains, can we truly have a heavy "Jinshan Yinshan". Building ecological civilization is the foundation and guarantee of promoting social harmony. Ecological civilization is the sum total of the cultural achievements of the harmonious unity and sustainable development of man and nature, man and social environment formed in the course of human historical development, and it is a state of communication and integration between man and nature. Without ecological security, mankind will fall into the deepest crisis of survival. In this sense, ecological construction is the foundation and premise of economic construction, political construction, cultural construction and social construction. With the understanding and actions of the whole society, the coal consumption for power supply has been reduced by 22.4g/kWh in five years, 3.85 million tons of standard coal, 2.43 billion kWh of electricity and 385,000 tons of fuel have been saved, and the energy saving value has been directly realized by 3.35 billion yuan. At the same time, the scale doubled in five years, the installed capacity reached 63.02 million kilowatts, and the benefits quadrupled. The main business income was 72 billion yuan and the profit was 40 million yuan. This is an impressive answer given by China Huadian Group in the tough battle of energy conservation and emission reduction in science and technology development. Huadian Group's achievements in relying on scientific and technological progress, promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, and accelerating clean development show that only by strengthening energy conservation and emission reduction and ecological environment protection can we continuously enhance our sustainable development capability. Building ecological civilization is related to the vital interests of the people and the survival and development of the Chinese nation. It is necessary to carry out the construction of ecological civilization throughout the whole process of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's cause, firmly establish the concept of ecological civilization in the whole society, put the construction of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society in a prominent position in the development strategy of industrialization and modernization, and basically form an industrial structure, growth mode and consumption mode that saves energy resources and protects the ecological environment. To build an ecological civilization, ideas should come first. It is necessary to make the concept of ecological civilization deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and strengthen the national consciousness of China's large population, low per capita resources and severe environmental situation among all citizens; Strengthen the benefit consciousness of unifying economic benefits, social benefits and ecological benefits; Strengthen the overall development of economic indicators, resource indicators, environmental indicators and humanities indicators; Strengthening environment is resources, environment is capital, destroying environment is destroying productivity, and protecting environment is cultivating environmental awareness of productivity. In the whole society, the consciousness of understanding the national conditions, cherishing the environment, protecting the ecology, advocating nature, saving resources and benefiting future generations has been formed, making the concept of ecological civilization a common value concept and conscious action of 65.438+0.3 billion China people. Changing the mode of economic development is the key. We should truly unify our thoughts and actions with the requirements of sound and rapid economic development in Scientific Outlook on Development, establish the concept that green mountains and green waters are also achievements, combine the adjustment of industrial structure with saving resources and protecting the ecological environment, take the road of new industrialization with China characteristics, vigorously develop circular economy, promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, and accelerate the transformation of economic development mode. Gradually change the unreasonable industrial structure and extensive economic development mode to achieve a win-win situation for economic development and environmental protection. Unswervingly grasping the work of energy conservation and emission reduction is the core. To achieve sound and rapid economic development, "good" is the foundation, and one of the manifestations of "good" is to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction while economic growth. It is necessary to regard energy conservation and consumption reduction and pollution reduction as two "high-voltage lines", use advanced technology to accelerate the transformation of enterprises with high energy consumption and high pollution, resolutely eliminate backward productive forces, and unswervingly follow the civilized development path of production development, affluent life and good ecology. Strict system is the guarantee. To achieve hard goals, we must make hard moves, and we can't get blue sky and clear water without moving seriously. Just like controlling population and protecting cultivated land, we should implement strict environmental resources protection system, strict legal system, environmental standards, law enforcement discipline and means, establish and improve energy-saving target responsibility and assessment system, incorporate consumption reduction and pollution reduction into the comprehensive evaluation system of economic and social development, implement performance supervision system and administrative accountability system, resolutely punish those acts that go their own way, ignore the law and discipline and seriously damage the ecological environment, put an end to all environmental violations, and never allow "a few people" to build ecological civilization for the whole society. When the construction of ecological civilization becomes the conscious action of every member of our society, the beautiful scenery of harmonious coexistence between man and nature will surely be realized.