Hu elevates ecology in overall plan for nation
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November 9, 2012, Friday
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PRESIDENT Hu Jintao yesterday advocated the building of a "beautiful" China in the country's overall development plan by pushing ahead progress made in ecological protection.
In his report to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hu said, "We must give high priority to making ecological progress, work hard to build a beautiful country, and achieve lasting and sustainable development of the Chinese nation."
Hu gave ecological progress a more prominent position by incorporating it into the country's overall development plan together with economic, political, cultural and social progress. It is the first time the concept of "beautiful China" has been written into a keynote report at the Party congress, held every five years.
At the CPC's 17th National Congress in 2007, Hu advocated ecological progress for the first time in his report. The term was also translated as "conservation culture" or "ecological civilization" in China's official documents.
When listing the difficulties and problems for China's development, Hu said unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development remains a big problem, and "resource and environmental constraints have become more serious." To promote ecological progress, China will improve development of its geographical space, promote resource conservation, intensify protection of the ecosystem and the environment, and enhance system building.
China has been aware of the severity of the pollution and energy consumption amid its sizzling economic growth over the past decades.
In 2008, after ecological progress was written in the Party congress report, China elevated the State Environmental Protection Administration to a full-fledged ministry, which is tasked "to step up environmental improvement and ecological protection and accelerate the building of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society."
China also pledged in its 12th Five-Year Program (2011-2015) to cut energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent and slash carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2015. That will help China meet its pledge of reducing carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 from the 2005 levels.
China's installed capacity of wind farms and the use of solar-powered water heater both topped the world.
In his report to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hu said, "We must give high priority to making ecological progress, work hard to build a beautiful country, and achieve lasting and sustainable development of the Chinese nation."
Hu gave ecological progress a more prominent position by incorporating it into the country's overall development plan together with economic, political, cultural and social progress. It is the first time the concept of "beautiful China" has been written into a keynote report at the Party congress, held every five years.
At the CPC's 17th National Congress in 2007, Hu advocated ecological progress for the first time in his report. The term was also translated as "conservation culture" or "ecological civilization" in China's official documents.
When listing the difficulties and problems for China's development, Hu said unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development remains a big problem, and "resource and environmental constraints have become more serious." To promote ecological progress, China will improve development of its geographical space, promote resource conservation, intensify protection of the ecosystem and the environment, and enhance system building.
China has been aware of the severity of the pollution and energy consumption amid its sizzling economic growth over the past decades.
In 2008, after ecological progress was written in the Party congress report, China elevated the State Environmental Protection Administration to a full-fledged ministry, which is tasked "to step up environmental improvement and ecological protection and accelerate the building of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society."
China also pledged in its 12th Five-Year Program (2011-2015) to cut energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent and slash carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2015. That will help China meet its pledge of reducing carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 from the 2005 levels.
China's installed capacity of wind farms and the use of solar-powered water heater both topped the world.
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