Promoting green development in depth
Our reporter Cao Hongyan
2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", and it is also a key year for promoting the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, promoting the overall green transformation of economic and social development, and realizing the improvement of ecological environment quality from quantitative to qualitative.
This year, we continued to strengthen ecological and environmental protection to promote high-quality development and made new progress. We made new steps in the battle of pollution prevention and control. We accelerated the establishment of a carbon peak and carbon neutral "1+N" policy system... Green development has become the best A clear weather vane.
Ecological improvement takes a big step
Living up to the green waters and green mountains, you will get the gold and silver mountains.
A good ecological environment is not only natural wealth, but also economic wealth.
In 2021, all localities will continue to strengthen ecological and environmental protection, and promote high-quality development with high-level protection to continuously achieve new results.
At 0:00 on January 1, 2021, the ten-year ban on fishing in key waters of the Yangtze River Basin was fully launched.
The fishermen withdrew their catches and landed, and the Yangtze River was able to recuperate;
This year, a group of wild Asian elephants in Yunnan patrolled north and returned to their habitat safely under artificial guidance.
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The ecological protection red line system has been steadily established.
Cui Shuhong, director of the Department of Natural Ecological Protection of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, notified that the proportion of the national ecological protection red line initially delineated shall not be less than 25% of the land area, covering key ecological function areas, ecological environment sensitive areas and fragile areas. The key area of the national biodiversity distribution.
The national park system took root.
In 2021, my country officially established the first batch of national parks such as Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Wuyi Mountain, marking this innovation from a pilot to a rapid development stage.
Integrating various nature protection areas at all levels, breaking the division of departmental, local interests, and administrative systems, has improved the overall protection level of my country's natural ecosystems.
Large-scale greening of the country has been pushed forward.
The implementation of national land greening tasks has reached the county level and landed on the map above. In 2021, 54 million mu of afforestation will be completed, and 46 million mu of grass will be improved.
Pollution control has achieved results
"Through the unremitting efforts of the whole society,'Normal Blue' has gradually become the background of citizens' lives, and'Ecological Green' is becoming the beautiful background color of the capital." This is the heartfelt words of Yu Jianhua, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment and a spokesman.
"From the "13th Five-Year Plan" to resolutely fighting pollution prevention and control, to the "14th Five-Year Plan" in-depth fighting pollution prevention and control, it means that pollution prevention and control involves a deeper level of contradictions, a broader field, and higher requirements." Ecological Environment Said Tian Chengchuan, deputy director of the Department of Comprehensive Affairs.
Destroying black soil, occupying wetland parks, illegally dumping waste residue into the Yellow River, illegally using Yellow River water... a batch of typical cases have been exposed.
The central eco-environmental protection inspectors have been working hard, more eco-environmental problems have been solved, and the effectiveness of inspection rectification has been continuously demonstrated.
The sky is bluer.
From January to November 2021, the average PM2.5 concentration of 339 prefecture-level and above cities across the country was 28 micrograms/m3, a year-on-year decrease of 9.7%.
The water is clearer.
From January to November 2021, among the 3641 national surface water assessment sections across the country, the proportion of sections with good water quality (Class I to Class III) was 83.6%, a year-on-year increase of 1.7 percentage points.
The ground is cleaner.
Intensify the fight against pollution in agriculture and rural areas, continue to promote the construction of "waste-free cities", and continue to promote the comprehensive management of "white garbage", and the battle of pure land defense has achieved remarkable results.
Low-carbon transformation opens a new stage
In the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the construction of my country's ecological civilization, with carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as the starting point, began a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on the Complete, Accurate and Comprehensive Implementation of the New Development Concept to Do a Good Job in Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality" and the "Carbon Peaking Action Plan by 2030" were released, planning top-level design and breaking down for achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Draw a road map for action.
The energy structure continues to be optimized.
As of the end of October 2021, my country’s cumulative installed capacity of renewable energy power generation has exceeded the 1 billion kilowatt mark, accounting for 43.5% of the country’s total installed power generation capacity.
The activity of the national carbon market has steadily increased.
As of December 22, 2021, the cumulative trading volume of carbon emission allowances was 140 million tons, and the cumulative trading volume was 5.802 billion yuan.
"The role of the national carbon market as an important policy tool for controlling and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting the realization of carbon peaks and carbon neutrality has initially emerged." said Liu Youbin, spokesperson for the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
The National Green Technology Trading Center was established, and the green and low-carbon technology started to warm up.
More and more traditional high-energy-consuming enterprises are laying out the green transformation track, and more and more industrial production enterprises regard whether they attach importance to sustainable development as an important reference standard for selecting upstream suppliers... The concept of low carbon is like a strong new wind. Quickly spread to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
The pace of green manufacturing has accelerated.
In the first three quarters of 2021, energy consumption per unit of GDP dropped by 2.3% year-on-year, and energy consumption per unit of value added by industrial enterprises above designated size dropped by 5.2%.
The supply of green and low-carbon products has increased, and the cumulative production and sales of new energy vehicles from January to November 2021 increased by 1.7 times year-on-year.
The production and lifestyle are gradually and orderly transformed to a comprehensive green and low-carbon.
On the new journey, ecological priority and green development are stimulating huge potential energy to promote the modernization of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.