Encourage social capital to participate in ecological protection and restoration
The implementation of ecological protection and restoration projects is an important part of building an ecological civilization system and promoting the construction of a beautiful China.
A few days ago, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Encouraging and Supporting Social Capital to Participate in Ecological Protection and Restoration" to guide and support social capital to participate in the entire process of investment, design, restoration, management and protection of ecological protection and restoration projects.
Social capital and ecological protection and restoration are deeply integrated and mutually beneficial.
The participation of social capital in ecological protection and restoration is of great significance.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the central government invested 50 billion yuan to carry out a series of major projects for the integrated protection and restoration of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes and grasses, and significant results have been achieved.
However, for a long time, ecological protection and restoration have suffered a lot of historical debts and financial pressures, and the voice of social capital participation has gradually increased.
The report of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly requires “to build an environmental governance system led by the government, with enterprises as the main body, social organizations and the public participating together.”
The participation of social capital in ecological protection and restoration is a practical requirement of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", an inevitable requirement of the new development concept of "innovation, coordination, greenness, openness, and sharing", and the whole society is highly responsible for future generations. Attitude is necessary to build a beautiful China together and build a "community of life."
Social capital has a prominent role in participating in ecological protection and restoration.
The deep integration of the two is conducive to broadening social capital investment channels and enhancing the endogenous power of economic growth; it is conducive to innovating investment and financing mechanisms, promoting the diversification of investment entities, achieving complementary advantages and saving costs; conducive to the formation of improved environmental Promote a virtuous circle of capital investment, industrial development, and ecological employment, and ultimately achieve comprehensive ecological, economic and social benefits.
At present, there are many ways of integration that can be used for reference: independent investment by social capital, cooperation with the government, and participation in public welfare; there are many types of integration models: ecological restoration to improve the environment to drive social capital investment, government and social capital cooperation and joint construction, and ecological restoration Combining urban construction and development, ecological restoration and integration of poverty alleviation, ecological restoration to promote resource recycling, cultural heritage protection, tourism development, etc.; typical cases are also in various forms: ecological restoration of abandoned mines in Wulongshan, Huixian City, Henan, and Wuliangsuhai Mountains, Forests, Lakes, Inner Mongolia Grass ecological protection and restoration, the construction of the "Sea Garden" in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, etc.
The in-depth integration and benign mutual promotion of the two need to be regulated by the system, guided by the mechanism, and innovated by practice.
Governments at all levels should use policies and regulations, planning control, property rights incentives, fiscal and taxation support, resource utilization, financial support, technological innovation, and credit rewards and punishments to establish comprehensive rules and regulations.
The whole society must form a market-oriented, diversified and benign mutual promotion mechanism of "who protects, who benefits, who repairs, and who benefits".
Only by doing a good job of top-level design and continuous development in practice can we continue to promote high-quality development of ecological protection and restoration, maintain national ecological security, and effectively benefit hundreds of millions of people.