Deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system is an important guarantee for the construction of a beautiful China| Summary of the 2024 China Environmental Strategy and Policy Academic Annual Conference ①

The "2024 China Environmental Strategy and Policy Academic Annual Conference" sponsored by the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment was recently held in Beijing. The meeting thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, focusing on building a beautiful China, accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, improving the ecological and environmental governance system, and promoting ecological priority, conservation and intensive, green and low-carbon development. Promote the harmonious coexistence of man and nature and conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions.

The meeting believed that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made rearrangements for further comprehensive deepening of reforms, which is of great significance to promoting high-quality economic development, promoting national development, and realizing China-style modernization as scheduled. The plenary session focused on building a beautiful China and proposed major tasks and measures for institutional reform, pointing out the way forward for building a beautiful China.

On the new journey, deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system must closely focus on the goal of building a beautiful China, improve the basic system of ecological civilization, pay more attention to system integration, implement a sub-regional, differentiated, and precise control ecological environment management system, strengthen central ecological and environmental protection inspections, and continue to consolidate political responsibility for building a beautiful China. Improve the ecological and environmental governance system, pay more attention to highlighting key points, improve the precise and scientific legal pollution control system and mechanism, implement the fixed pollution source supervision system with the pollution discharge permit system as the core, and promote the construction of an ecological and environmental governance system that integrates upstream and downstream in important river basins. Improve the green and low-carbon development mechanism, pay more attention to the effectiveness of reform, promote the construction of a green and low-carbon circular development economic system, and promote the self-reliance and self-reliance of green and low-carbon technologies.

This annual meeting will set up a main venue with the theme of "Focusing on Building a Beautiful China and Deepening the Reform of the Ecological Civilization System." It will focus on the basic system of ecological civilization, the ecological environment governance system, the green and low-carbon development mechanism, and actively and steadily promoting carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Four parallel sub-venues will be set up on themes such as carbon neutrality. A total of more than 150 representatives from relevant ministries and commissions, scientific research institutes, local governments, news media, etc. attended the meeting, and conducted theoretical and practical discussions and exchanges around the theme of the forum, and put forward good opinions and suggestions.

China-style modernization is a modernization in which man and nature coexist harmoniously. Deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system is a top-level design and major plan to improve the socialist ecological civilization system with China characteristics at a new historical starting point, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities in the field of ecological civilization, and provide strong impetus and institutional guarantee for the construction of a beautiful China. Experts attending the meeting held a heated discussion around the Party Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements on deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system.

At present, the global climate crisis is becoming increasingly serious, and the multilateral process of climate change is facing many challenges. The international community has higher expectations for China's responsibilities and actions in addressing climate change. Some experts believe that my country already has certain advantages in new energy, electric vehicles, power batteries and other fields. In the future, we should take climate action and the "double carbon" goal as the starting point to promote the synergy of economy, society, environment, energy and climate. High-quality sustainable development will make greater contributions to the construction of global ecological civilization and the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system and required the improvement of the institutional system of the main functional areas. Some experts believe that promoting the construction of ecological civilization through this system is an inherent need to realize the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. We need to coordinate progress in formulating laws, implementing main functional area plans, introducing fiscal and industrial policies, and improving performance appraisal mechanisms.

The rule of law is an important guarantee for China-style modernization. Some experts pointed out that at present, my country has basically established a relatively complete ecological and environmental legal system. In order to meet the new requirements and new needs of the rule of law in the construction of ecological civilization, we should further deepen the theoretical basis and practical application of the compilation of ecological and environmental codes, and strengthen diversified collaborative governance mechanisms and forward-looking research on sexual normative systems.

In response to the construction of a beautiful China, some experts believe that it is necessary to lead the comprehensive deepening of reforms through economic system reform, adhere to the construction of systems and the rule of law as the main line, and improve the basic system of ecological civilization. We must eliminate institutional obstacles in the construction of ecological civilization, change governance models and development paradigms, liberate and develop factor productivity, and enhance the disruptive technological originality capabilities of market entities. Promote comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development and lay a green foundation for high-quality development. Some experts pointed out that my country's green and low-carbon development level in the transportation sector has improved significantly, contributing to China's efforts to cope with global climate change, but it still faces many challenges. In the future, we need to continue to promote green and low-carbon transformation, optimize the transportation structure, strengthen green infrastructure construction, promote the manufacturing and application of energy-saving and low-carbon transportation vehicles, promote the integrated development of transportation and energy, build a full-chain transportation low-carbon management system, and actively participate in global transportation governance.

Developing green finance is an inevitable requirement for implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and serving the construction of a beautiful China. This is not only an important part of supporting the green transformation of the real economy and achieving high-quality financial development, but also helps address climate change risks. Some experts suggest that environmental and climate risk management should be integrated into the development of the financial system, green finance capacity building should be improved, green financial products and services should be strengthened, the field of transformation financial services should be expanded, and the strategy for carbon emission and capital "double intensive" industries should be strengthened. Research and exploration of transformation paths.