Understanding the Dialectics of Ecological Civilization: Insights from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Speech

2023-07-19 00:11:00

This is a very important meeting—

After five years, the National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference will be held in Beijing from July 17 to 18, 2023.

The important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the meeting contains profound dialectics. It is a new interpretation and new development of Xi Jinping’s ecological civilization thought, and provides a powerful ideological weapon for continuing to promote the construction of ecological civilization.

Observing the construction of ecological civilization in the new era requires a dialectical perspective——

General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward four “major changes” in his speech, namely: “to achieve a major change from focused rectification to systematic governance”, “to achieve a major change from passive response to active action”, and “to achieve a major change from a global environmental governance participant to a leading A major transformation of the author” and “realization of a major transformation from practical exploration to scientific theory guidance”.

This is not only a systematic summary of the great achievements in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era, but also a highly condensed summary of the theoretical innovation, practical innovation, and institutional innovation of ecological civilization in the new era.

There is also change in change.

At the National Ecological and Environmental Protection Conference five years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the construction of ecological civilization is in a critical period of pressure and burden, and has entered the stage of providing more high-quality ecological products to meet the people’s growing needs for a beautiful ecological environment. It is also a window period when we have the conditions and ability to solve outstanding ecological and environmental problems.

At this conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again emphasized that my country’s economic and social development has entered a high-quality development stage of accelerating greening and low-carbonization, and the construction of ecological civilization is still in a critical period of pressure and burden.

Looking at the macro situation: the structural, root-causing and trending pressures on my country’s ecological and environmental protection have not been fundamentally alleviated.

Look at the specific indicators: in the first half of this year, the proportion of days with good air quality in the country fell by 3.2 percentage points year-on-year, and the average number of days with severe and above pollution increased by 1.4 percentage points year-on-year; last year, the proportion of coal consumption in total energy consumption rebounded; Ecologically fragile areas above the degree account for 55% of the country’s terrestrial land space area…

In the face of new situations and new problems, how to plan and promote the new journey of ecological and environmental protection work?

At this meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a profound exposition of several major relationships that need to be properly handled. The wisdom of dialectics also shines here.

——Correctly handle the “relationship between high-quality development and high-level protection”, occupying a leading position in management and summarization.

Dealing with the relationship between development and protection is a worldwide problem, but it is not without solutions. China’s development practice in the new era has proved and is continuing to prove that high-level protection is an important support for high-quality development, and high-quality development can only be achieved by high-level protection, and the two can complement each other and bring out the best in each other.

“Through high-level environmental protection, we will continue to shape new kinetic energy and new advantages for development, focus on building a green and low-carbon circular economic system, effectively reduce the cost of resources and the environment for development, and continue to enhance the potential and stamina of development.” General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the meeting. .

——Correctly handling the “relationship between key tackling and coordinated governance” is a test of the profound practice of the theory of contradiction and system.

In-depth understanding of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important exposition, on the one hand, we must grasp the main contradictions and the main aspects of contradictions, “take effective measures for outstanding ecological and environmental problems”; , departmental coordination, regional coordination, and policy coordination”.

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——Correctly handling the “relationship between natural restoration and artificial restoration” embodies the philosophy of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and requires that people’s subjective initiative should be brought into play on the premise of respecting objective laws.

The general secretary made a clear request that natural restoration and artificial restoration should be used comprehensively, measures should be taken according to local conditions, and policies should be implemented according to different regions and categories, so as to find the best solution for ecological protection and restoration.

—— To correctly handle the “relationship between external constraints and endogenous power”, it is necessary to achieve an organic unity of internal and external.

In this regard, the general secretary clearly pointed out that “we must always adhere to the most stringent system and the strictest rule of law to protect the ecological environment, maintain normalized external pressure, and at the same time stimulate the endogenous motivation of the whole society to jointly protect the ecological environment.”

——Correctly handling the “relationship between ‘dual-carbon’ commitment and voluntary action” requires not only the combination of internal and external, but also the unity of stability and progress.

At the Central Economic Work Conference in December 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an in-depth elaboration on the correct understanding and grasp of carbon neutrality at peak carbon, and made it clear that “the goal of carbon neutrality at peak carbon must be unswerving” and “stable carbon neutrality must be adhered to.” Seek progress and realize it step by step.”

Promoting carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is my country’s solemn commitment to the international community and an inherent requirement for high-quality development. On different occasions, the general secretary has repeatedly emphasized that to achieve the “double carbon” goal, we are not asked to do it by others, but we must do it ourselves.

At this meeting, the general secretary further made an important elaboration: “The goal of ‘double carbon’ we promised is unwavering, but the path, method, rhythm and strength to achieve this goal should and must be determined by ourselves. Never be influenced by others.”

Like two sides of a coin and two ends of a balance, ecological and environmental protection and economic and social development are in themselves a dialectical and unified relationship.

The next five years will be an important period for building a beautiful China. At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping made new arrangements for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. Only by using dialectical thinking well and deeply understanding the profound connotation of the General Secretary’s important speech can we better implement and implement it.

Planning: Huo Xiaoguang

Producer: Zhang Xiaosong

Chief Writers: Zou Wei, Gao Jing

Coordinator: Wang Xuan, Bai Jie

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