The construction of beautiful China has taken a major step

[China Ten Years · Series Topic Press Release]

"In the past ten years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it is the deepest understanding of ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection. The whole party's consciousness and initiative to promote green development throughout the country has significantly enhanced the world's attention, and created the world's attention ecological miracles and green development miracles. It has gone out of a civilized development path with rich production, rich life, and good ecology. Pay. "On September 15th, at the" China Ten Years "series of theme press conference held by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecological Environment, introduced the" implementation of new development concepts and the beautiful China of the builder and nature and harmony. "Regarding the situation, and answered the reporter's question.

The concept of ecological civilization is deeply rooted in people's hearts

In Huang Runqiu's view, General Secretary Xi Jinping stood at the height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, vigorously promoted the theoretical innovation, practical innovation and institutional innovation of ecological civilization. Thought provides a fundamental follow -up and action guide for ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection. He said that under the guidance of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, the concept of "green water and green mountains is the golden mountains and silver mountains" has become the consensus and actions of the whole party and the whole society. The carbon lifestyle is full of wind.

At the same time, the construction of ecological civilization and ecological environmental protection have been gradually incorporated into all aspects and process of economic and social development. "We include 'Beautiful China' into the goal of socialist modernization, and incorporating 'ecological civilization' into the" five -in -one "overall layout, and incorporating the basic strategy of" human and nature harmonious coexistence "into the new era. Incorporating 'green' into the new concept of development, incorporating 'pollution control' into the three major battles -the layout of the construction of ecological civilization is more complete, more systematic, and more mature. "Huang Runqiu pointed out.

The effectiveness of green development is constantly emerging

Huang Runqiu introduced that in the past ten years, my country has supported an average of 6.5%of its economic growth with an average annual energy consumption growth rate. carbon dioxide.

The following sets of data interpreted the above conclusions: In 2021, the proportion of coal consumption in my country decreased from 72.4%in 2005 to 56.0%, and the proportion of non -fossil energy consumption reached about 16.6%. The value of the above industrial added value reached 15.1%; the scale of my country's renewable energy installed capacity exceeded 1 billion kilowatts, and the installed capacity of hydropower, wind power, solar power generation, and biomass power generation ranked first in the world; It runs smoothly; the scale of new energy vehicles has ranked first in the world for 7 consecutive years.

"In 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics became the first 'carbon neutral and' Winter Olympics in Olympic history. More than 1,000 hydrogen buses were shuttled in the field. 100%of the venues were powered by clean energy. All venues reached green building standards. The firm determination and solid pace of comprehensive green and low -carbon transformation in my country. "Huang Runqiu added.

The quality of ecological environment continues to improve

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has promoted the construction of ecological civilization with unprecedented efforts. One of the iconic measures is to deploy to resolutely fight against pollution prevention.

In Huang Runqiu's view, the main results achieved by pollution prevention and control can be summarized with "three major changes":

The first is historic changes in air quality. "The average concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) nationwide, from 46 micrograms/cubic meters in 2015 to 33 micrograms/cubic meters in 2020, and further dropped to 30 micrograms/cubic meters last year. The first stage of the organization. The ratio of excellent days reached 87.5%in 2021, an increase of 6.3 percentage points over 2015. my country has become the country with the fastest quality improvement in the world in the world. "

Second, the quality of water environment changes. "In the past ten years, the proportion of excellent water body in category I ~ III in my country increased by 23.3 percentage points to 84.9%, which is close to the level of developed countries. Effective guarantee. "

The third is the basic changes in the quality of the soil environment. "In recent years, my country has introduced the first basic law of soil pollution prevention and control of the" People's Republic of the People's Republic of China soil pollution prevention and control "to carry out detailed investigations of soil pollution for national agricultural land and construction land, implement soil pollution risk control, and the trend of worsening soil pollution obtained. Effectively curb. "

Another iconic movement is that ecological protection and repair are continuously increased, and the results are significant. Huang Runqiu introduced that in the past ten years, my country's forest coverage has increased by 2.68 percentage points to 23.04%, and the forest area and forest accumulation have been maintained for more than 30 consecutive years to maintain "double growth"; the first national park was established, and the first national botanical garden and seed library were built; The area of ​​natural protection land accounted for 18%of the country's land and land area, and the preliminary designated ecological protection red line area accounted for about 25%of the land area of ​​land. The number of wild species of more than 300 rare and endangered wild plants rose steadily.

In -depth participation in global ecological governance

In the past ten years, my country has also firmly practiced multilateralism and strived to promote the establishment of a fair and cooperative global environmental governance system. Huang Runqiu summarizes my country's global environmental governance contribution as follows: Promote the reaching, signing, effectiveness and implementation of climate change "Paris Agreement"; announced that carbon dioxide emissions strive to reach peaks by 2030, strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, strongly support The development of energy green and low -carbon in developing countries will no longer build a new overseas coal power project, fully showing the responsibility of the responsible power; the first stage of the 15th Conference of the Contracting Congress (COP15) of the "Biological Diversity Convention" is successfully held. Video methods attended the leader summit and delivered important speeches, announcing the establishment of the host national measures such as the Kunming Biological Diversity Fund, and the meeting released the "Kunming Declaration" to open a new chapter in global biodiversity governance; in -depth construction of green "Belt and Road", advocating the establishment of "" The Belt and Road "Green Development International Alliance and the" Belt and Road "ecological environmental protection big data service platform to carry out South -South cooperation to help developing countries improve the level of environmental governance.

In 2013, the Council of the UN Environmental Planning Agency passed the draft decision to promote the concept of Chinese ecological civilization; in 2016, the United Nations Environmental Planning Department released the report "Green Water and Qingshan is Jinshan Yinshan: Chinese Ecological Civilization Strategy and Action" report; in 2021, COP15 was based on The theme of "Ecological Civilization: Building a Community of Earth Life" has become the first global conference held by the United Nations with the theme of ecological civilization. "It can be seen that the achievements of my country's ecological civilization construction have been widely affirmed by the international community. my country is becoming an important participant, contributor, and leader in the construction of global ecological civilization." Huang Runqiu said.

(Reporter Zhang Lei)

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