Xin Changxing, Secretary of the CPC Jiangsu provincial committee, emphasized the need to deeply study and implement the Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on Jiangsu’s work, implement the spirit of the National Ecological Environment Protection Conference, promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature through the construction of beautiful Jiangsu, and fully demonstrate the beauty of natural ecology, green development, livability in urban and rural areas, water charm and humanistic beauty, and regional good governance so as to consolidate the ecological foundation and make greater contributions to the new chapter of modernization construction in new Jiangsu. He made the remarks when attending the provincial meeting on ecological environment protection and conservation on Wednesday. Governor Xu Kunlin presided over the meeting.
Xin Changxing pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has made unprecedented efforts to promote the construction of ecological civilization, comprehensively promoting theoretical, practical, and institutional innovation of ecological civilization, coming up with the Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, and promoting historical, transitional, and global changes in China's ecological environment protection.
The important speech delivered by the General Secretary at the National Ecological Environment Protection Conference is a new interpretation and development of the Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, providing fundamental guidance and action guidelines for promoting ecological civilization construction on the new journey.
We need to deeply understand and grasp the historical achievements of the "Four Major Transformations", promote the regular understanding of the "Five Major Relationships", the strategic deployment of the "Six Major Tasks", and the major requirements of the "One Fundamental Guarantee" in the important speech delivered by the General Secretary, and gain a deeper understanding of the decisive significance of the "Two Determinations" so as to promote the construction of ecological civilization more scientifically, more firmly shoulder the responsibility of Jiangsu in building a beautiful China, and more solidly promote the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
Xin Changxing pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached importance to the construction of ecological civilization in Jiangsu, so that Jiangsu has made breakthrough progress in promoting ecological civilization construction and ecological environment protection, and making it a common consensus and conscious action in following the path of green development.
He said the province’s ecological environment has shifted from severe overdraft to significant improvement, accelerating the formation of a good situation where high-quality development and high-level protection coexist, and ensuring that the modernization of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity is at the forefront of the country.
With the tremendous changes in the ecological environment since the new era, we have gained a deeper sense and understanding of the truth and practical power of the Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization. As long as we firmly follow the direction guided by the General Secretary, the path of high-quality development will become wider and wider.
Xin Changxing said that Jiangsu has entered a new stage of comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation in its economic and social development, high-quality development, and high-level protection, promoting a new stage of leapfrog ecological environment improvement from quantitative to qualitative. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately grasp the new situation and requirements, take the construction of beautiful Jiangsu as the driving force, and make greater efforts to promote green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, and make greater efforts to boost the fight against pollution prevention and control, strengthen the governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sand systems, address prominent ecological environmental issues around the people, and embark on a path where economic development and ecological civilization complement each other, support high-quality economic development with a better ecological environment and create a high-quality life for the people.
Xin Changxing stressed that the next five years is an important period to promote the construction of a beautiful Jiangsu. Therefore, we must speed up the fundamental improvement of the quality of the ecological environment, promote the environmental protection of blue sky, clear water and clean land at a higher standard, solidly promote a new round of comprehensive treatment of the Taihu Lake and protection of other important water bodies, prevent and resolve ecological environmental risks, improve the stability and sustainability of ecosystem diversity, and fully demonstrate the beauty of natural ecology.
The provincial party chief said Jiangsu must make every effort to promote green and low-carbon economic and social development, build "1+3" key functional areas at a higher level, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, and fully demonstrate the beauty of green development.
All parts of the province must make every effort to promote the improvement of urban and rural environment, coordinate the construction of beautiful and livable cities and urban renewal actions, continue to promote the demonstration construction of ecological and livable beautiful villages and the construction of characteristic rural areas, accelerate the improvement of environmental infrastructure, and better integrate cities into nature, revitalize villages with a modern atmosphere, and provide people with a better home so as to fully demonstrate the beauty of livable urban and rural areas.
We must strive to build national cultural parks along the Yangtze River and Grand Canal, advocate the ecological civilization values of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, tell the beautiful Chinese story that happened on the land of Jiangsu, fully demonstrate the beauty of water culture and humanity, continue to deepen ecological civilization reform and innovation, strengthen legal protection, improve economic policies, strengthen scientific and technological support, expand international cooperation, and build a modern environmental governance system that is in line with the actual situation of Jiangsu so as to fully demonstrate the beauty of regional good governance.
