When was the green development concept first put forward

Background of the "green" concept: The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward a scientific development concept and development mode to guide the development of China in the "13th Five-Year Plan" period and even for the longer term.

The significance of the green concept: It is a design concept and method for the purpose of saving resources and protecting the environment, which emphasizes the protection of the natural ecology, making full use of resources, people-oriented, and treating the environment well.

Connotation of Green Concept: A model innovation based on traditional development, a new development model that takes environmental protection as an important pillar for realizing sustainable development under the constraints of ecological and environmental capacity and resource carrying capacity. Specifically, it includes the following key points: first, environmental resources should be regarded as an intrinsic element of socio-economic development; second, the sustainable development of economy, society and environment should be regarded as the goal of green development; third, the greening and ecologization of the process and results of economic activities should be regarded as the main objective of green development; and third, the greening and ecologization of the process and results of economic activities should be regarded as the main objective of green development. Third, we should take the process and results of economic activities "greening" and "ecologization" as the main content and path of green development.