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On September 15, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of "implementing the new development concept of and building a harmonious coexistence between man and nature".
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has placed ecological protection in an important position in ecological civilization construction. The motherland's green waters and green mountains have become more, and some rare animals and plants have also appeared frequently. " Daily Economic News " reporter asked the Ministry of Ecology and Environment at the press conference: What work has my country carried out in ecological protection? What achievements have been achieved? In addition, as the presidency of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), what role will China play in the second phase of the meeting? What goals are you looking forward to achieving?
"Daily Economic News" reporter asked a question at the press conference. Image source: Guoxin.com (photo taken by Luan Haijun)
Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu said in response to the question from the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has placed ecological protection in an important position in ecological civilization construction. It has repeatedly emphasized the need to promote the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, improve the quality and stability of the ecosystem, and guard the boundaries of natural ecological security.
Huang Runqiu also revealed that the second phase of COP15 was moved to the location of the Convention Secretariat, namely the city of Montreal, Canada. Although the location has changed, the theme of the COP15 conference remains unchanged, and it is still "Ecological Civilization: Building a Community of Life on Earth".
More than 25% of the land area is included in Ecological Protection Red Line
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has done many aspects of work in the field of ecological protection and has achieved remarkable results.
Huang Runqiu replied to a question from a reporter from the "Daily Economic News" that, first of all, these ten years have been a decade in which my country's ecological and environmental protection system has been systematically improved. In terms of laws and regulations, more than 20 laws and regulations have been formulated and revised, including the Biosafety Law, the Forest Law, the Wildlife Protection Law, and the Wetland Protection Law, and the legal guarantee of ecological protection is more powerful. In terms of institutional measures, the first ecological protection red line system was established, and more than 25% of the land area was included in the ecological protection red line.
"We have established a natural reserve system with national parks as the main body, and officially established the first batch of five national parks such as Sanjiangyuan , effectively protecting 90% of the terrestrial ecosystem types and 74% of the national key protected wildlife populations." Huang Runqiu said.
By implementing the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River, rare aquatic organisms such as Yangtze River porpoise , which is called "smiling angel" by the people, have been initially restored. The aquatic species monitored in Dongting Lake in 2021 have increased by 30 compared with 2018.
"Secondly, this decade is the ten years with the greatest efforts in my country's ecological protection supervision." Huang Runqiu pointed out that through the central ecological environment protection inspection, a number of prominent ecological environment damage problems have been effectively solved.
For example, Qilian Mountains have gone from being "rife with holes" to now "green all over the mountains", from chaos to governance, and have achieved great results. The northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains has undergone historic changes from "disorderly development" to "orderly exit" to current ecological restoration.
In addition, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, in conjunction with relevant departments, has organized and carried out strengthening supervision of the "Green Shield" nature reserve for five consecutive years, and promoted the rectification of more than 35,000 problems in the national nature reserve.
In addition, this decade has been the effective consolidation of my country's ecological security barrier. Huang Runqiu responded to a question from a reporter from the "Daily Economic News" that my country insisted on integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sands, steadily promoted the pilot projects of 25 ecological protection and restoration projects of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, implemented the major projects of biodiversity protection and rescue projects of endangered species, and designated 35 priority areas for biodiversity protection.
Huang Runqiu shows reporters the relevant situation of the protection of some endangered species. Photo by reporter Zhang Huaishui of Meike
Huang Runqiu picked up enlarged color photos from the table and showed it to the reporter on the scene, "H colored ibis , which was once considered extinct in the past, has appeared again. This is rare and has appeared in nature. The picture above is a gibbon in Hainan. It is critically endangered and has also ushered in new members. Their population is constantly expanding, and the critically endangered plant 'missing' for a century has also been discovered again, and 112 endemic rare and endangered wild animals and plants have achieved a return to the wild."
deeply participates in global biodiversity governance
Green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains . In the past ten years, focusing on the transformation of "green water and green mountains" to "gold and silver mountains", Huang Runqiu said that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment regards the construction of ecological civilization demonstration as an important platform and practical carrier for practicing Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, and has successively organized and named five batches of 362 national ecological civilization demonstration cities and counties and 136 "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains" practice innovation bases, guiding all localities to actively explore new ways of high-quality development of with ecological priority and green development.
Huang Runqiu gave an example, saying that there is an Jiawang District in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. This area has achieved a gorgeous turn from "one city of coal ash and half city soil" to "one city of green mountains and half city lakes" by vigorously implementing the management of coal mining subsidence area, barren mountain greening and water system management.
In the past decade, while my country has strengthened ecological protection with unprecedented efforts, it has also deeply participated in global biodiversity governance.
Huang Runqiu replied to a question from a reporter from the Daily Economic News that my country actively implements the Convention on Biological Diversity and its protocol. In the past decade, the implementation of my country's biodiversity conservation goals has been better than the global average.
"In October last year, as the chairman of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the first phase of COP15 was successfully held in Kunming. President Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered a keynote speech, announcing the establishment of the Biodiversity Fund and other host country measures. The meeting also passed the " Kunming Declaration ". "
Huang Runqiu further pointed out that the theme of this meeting is "Ecological Civilization: Jointly Building a Community of Life on Earth". This theme has explained to the world my country's concepts, propositions and actions to promote global ecological civilization construction, and contributed Chinese wisdom, Chinese solution and Chinese strength to promote global ecological civilization construction.
Regarding the situation of the second phase of COP15 meeting, Huang Runqiu revealed that taking into account the domestic and international epidemic prevention and control situation, the second phase of the meeting was moved to the location of the Secretariat of the Convention, namely Montreal, Canada. The time was from December 7 to 19. Although the location changed, the theme of the conference of COP15 remains unchanged, and it is still "Ecological Civilization: Building a Community of Life on Earth"; the logo remains unchanged, and China remains as the agenda of the leadership conference of the presidency of COP15.
"Our goal is to strive to promote the achievement of the 'Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework' with both ambition and pragmatic balance, and contribute our strength to promoting the global biodiversity process and building a community of life on earth." Huang Runqiu said.
Daily Economic News
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