Xi Jinping: We should vigorously advocate green and low-carbon production and lifestyle, and seek development opportunities and motivation from green development.
This passage comes from President Xi Jinping’s speech at the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12, 2020.
Green development is one of the core essences of the new development concept and an inevitable requirement for us to promote Chinese-style modernization.
Promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development means that our development mode has shifted from pursuing speed and scale to paying more attention to quality, efficiency, safety and sustainability. It also reflects people's expectations and pursuit of a higher quality of life.
In recent years, under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Ecological Civilization, various localities and departments have continued to cultivate a green foundation for high-quality development, and have coordinated efforts to reduce carbon emissions, reduce pollution, expand green areas, and promote growth. my country’s green development has achieved new results.
At present, my country's renewable energy installed capacity has reached 1.45 billion kilowatts, accounting for more than 50% of the country's total installed power generation capacity, historically surpassing thermal power installed capacity.
The output of green and low-carbon products is also growing rapidly. In 2023, the national new energy vehicle output will increase by 30.3% compared with the previous year, and both production and sales volume will rank first in the world.
In many places, the concept of green development has become a powerful driving force for local economic growth.
For example, Shandong focuses on emerging industries such as new energy vehicles, integrated circuits, aerospace information, and new materials, and cultivates future industrial clusters such as Jinan aerospace information, Qingdao artificial intelligence, and Yantai Oriental Spaceport, and presses the "green, low-carbon, high-quality development" "Accelerator"; Zhejiang activates the "beautiful economy" with green ecology and continues to promote the development of rural tourism, leisure agriculture and other industries in the construction of common prosperity demonstration areas.
At the same time, in our daily lives, a healthy lifestyle of "simple, moderate, green and low-carbon" is becoming a trend.
Green and environmentally friendly life concepts such as "Operation CD", garbage classification, and green travel are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Green and low-carbon products are favored by more consumers, and more and more people are consciously becoming promoters and guardians of green life.
Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Beautiful China", which clarified that by 2027, green and low-carbon development will be further promoted, the total emission of major pollutants will continue to decrease, and the quality of the ecological environment will continue to improve.
Facing the future, we must anchor the goal of building a beautiful China, accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation in energy, industry, transportation, urban and rural construction, agriculture and other fields, and actively practice simple, moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy lifestyles and consumption patterns, Through the joint efforts of the whole society, we will find a path of civilized development featuring developed production, affluent life, and good ecology, and achieve the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.
Interpretation of this issue: Guan Lingzi, commentator of CCTV