The country's first local legislation named after ecological civilization education will be officially implemented on September 1

  On July 4, the reporter learned from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment that the "Jiangsu Province Ecological Civilization Education Promotion Measures" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") has recently been promulgated and will be officially implemented on September 1 this year.

This is also the first local legislation in the country named after ecological civilization education.

The "Measures" clearly designated the week of June 5th Environment Day as the Jiangsu Provincial Ecological Civilization Education and Publicity Week.

At the same time, encourage and support animal and botanical gardens, wetland parks, geoparks, public cultural facilities, etc. to be open to the public at a discount or free of charge, and open for free during the ecological civilization education and publicity week to provide ecological civilization education services.

  The "Measures" include general provisions, school ecological civilization education, family ecological civilization education, social ecological civilization education, safeguard incentive measures, and supplementary provisions, with a total of six chapters and forty articles.

The "Measures" clearly stipulate that ecological civilization education is the responsibility of the whole society, stipulates the government's ecological civilization education responsibilities, refines the ecological civilization education responsibilities in all aspects of society, and promotes the diversification of ecological civilization education carriers.

  The "Measures" summarizes and refines the practice of ecological civilization education in Jiangsu Province on the basis of learning from some local early legislations, and proposes forward-looking and leading institutional measures in combination with the needs of ecological civilization construction and the requirements of the times.

For example, the special chapter clarifies the content and responsibilities of family ecological civilization education, and proposes and makes clear that "youth should be the key target of ecological civilization education", and "public officials, managers of enterprises, institutions and social organizations should take the lead in fulfilling the responsibility of ecological civilization education." , "Education supervision institutions should incorporate the school's ecological civilization education work into the education supervision index system", "Industry associations, chambers of commerce and other organizations should play the role of industry self-discipline, organize, guide and support members to carry out ecological civilization education", "Enterprises and institutions and The implementation of ecological civilization education responsibilities of other producers and operators shall be included in the scope of ecological environment supervision and management, and measures such as credit incentives shall be implemented in accordance with the law”, etc.

  It is a common practice to promote ecological civilization education through legislation.

The promulgation of the "Measures" will guide, standardize and guarantee the education of ecological civilization in the whole province, promote the establishment of ecological civilization values ​​and codes of conduct in the whole society, and build a solid social foundation for building an ecological environment action system and promoting the construction of a beautiful Jiangsu.

  (Headquarters reporter Yang Ying)