Green agricultural development requires coordinated advancement of six aspects of greening
The Opinions proposed to "coordinate the advancement of new industrialization, urbanization, informatization, agricultural modernization and greening." This is another major deployment by the central leadership for advancing ecological civilization construction, following the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Decisions of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee. "Greening" is the latest summary of the comprehensive green transformation of China's economic and social development. Its scope of application includes not only ecological civilization construction, but also all aspects of economic, political, cultural and social development, covering the entire process of new industrialization, urbanization, informatization and agricultural modernization. To advance greening, efforts can be focused on the following aspects.
Greening of national concepts. Throughout society, break down the anthropocentric notion that "humans are the masters of nature and must defeat and conquer nature," and firmly establish the ecological civilization concept of respecting nature, conforming to nature and protecting nature; break down the notion that protecting the ecological environment is opposed to economic development, and firmly establish the concept that protecting the ecological environment is protecting productive forces and improving the ecological environment is developing productive forces; break down the notion that nature has no value and that natural capital is not wealth, and firmly establish the concept that nature also has value and that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets"; break down the value of opposing humans to nature, and firmly establish the ecological value of harmony between humans and nature, forming a new social trend in which everyone, in everything and at all times advocates ecological civilization.
Greening of territorial space. Through channels such as the nationwide voluntary tree-planting campaign, plant trees and forests wherever conditions permit, and accelerate the greening of the national territory; through reform of state-owned forest farms and state-owned forest areas and deepening reform of the collective forest rights system, enhance the vitality of forestry development, protect forest resources and improve forest quality; through the implementation of major ecological restoration projects such as natural forest protection and returning farmland to forest, enhance the capacity to produce ecological products, advance comprehensive management of desertification, rocky desertification and soil erosion, expand the area of forests, lakes and wetlands, and protect biodiversity; through implementation of the main functional area strategy, build a strategic pattern of ecological security centered on major forest ecological barriers such as the Northeast forest barrier and the northern windbreak and sand-fixation barrier.
Greening of production methods. Fundamentally change the traditional development model characterized by high consumption, high emissions, high pollution and low output, and pursued at the cost of environmental pollution, resource waste and ecological degradation, and vigorously develop a green economy, circular economy and low-carbon economy based on the principle of unifying ecological, economic and social benefits. Accelerate adjustment of the economic and industrial structure, and promote the transformation of economic growth from being driven mainly by the secondary industry to being driven jointly by the primary, secondary and tertiary industries; accelerate adjustment of the structure of economic factors, and promote the transformation of economic growth from relying mainly on increased consumption of material resources to relying mainly on scientific and technological progress, improvement of worker quality and management innovation; accelerate development of resource-saving, environment-friendly and ecologically safe green industries, and substantially raise the degree of economic greening; accelerate construction of an industrial structure and production method with high scientific and technological content, low resource consumption, little environmental pollution and small ecological impact, forming new growth points for economic and social development.
Greening of lifestyles. Change the harmful lifestyle aimed at satisfying people's endless material desires, centered on personal pleasure and characterized mainly by high consumption, and vigorously promote an ecological consumption pattern that gives equal weight to material consumption and spiritual and cultural consumption, aims to satisfy people's basic needs, centers on improving the quality of life and is characterized mainly by reasonable consumption. Oppose the unsustainable lifestyle of unrestrained consumption of natural resources, unrestrained discharge of waste and pollutants, and unrestrained destruction of ecological balance; vigorously promote a lifestyle based on the principles of saving resources, reducing pollution and protecting ecology, so that the use of natural resources and toxic materials is greatly reduced, waste and pollutants generated in the life cycle of services or products are minimized, and acts such as illegal hunting, trading and use of wild animals and their products are effectively curbed.
Greening of science and technology. We should recognize both the tremendous contributions science and technology have made to promoting the development of productive forces and improving people's lives, and the negative effects they have brought to humanity when their goals are misdirected, such as resource depletion, environmental pollution and ecological degradation; strive to overcome the profit-driven and arbitrary nature of scientific and technological development and application, correctly grasp the goals and direction of scientific and technological development and application, and enable them to better play a positive role. Vigorously develop green biotechnology and green new energy technologies, technologies for eliminating pollutants and technologies that do not produce pollutants, as well as waste reuse technologies and waste-free production technologies, so as to achieve effective protection of biological species, rational development and utilization of new energy, purification and treatment of harmful and toxic substances, and promote cleaner production and resource utilization of waste.
Greening of institutional development. Treat institutional development as the top priority in advancing ecological civilization construction, and treat greening as the essential attribute of ecological civilization institutional development. In accordance with the requirements of modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity, focus on breaking institutional and mechanistic obstacles restricting ecological civilization construction, take major systems such as red-line control of resources, environment and ecology, property rights and use control of natural resource assets, natural resource balance sheets, departure audits of natural resource assets, compensation for ecological and environmental damage and accountability, and ecological compensation as breakthrough points, deepen reform of the ecological civilization system, issue relevant reform plans, establish a systematic and complete institutional system, and bring ecological civilization construction onto a law-based and institutionalized track. At the same time, promote the greening of relevant institutional development by integrating ecological civilization construction into all aspects and the entire process of economic, political, cultural and social development, so as to provide reliable institutional guarantees for the comprehensive green transformation of China's economic and social development in the new period.