What is green development and its significance?

Green development is a model of economic growth and social development with the goal of efficiency, harmony and sustainability.

In terms of connotation, green development is a model innovation based on traditional development, a new development model based on the constraints of ecological environment capacity and resource carrying capacity, and taking environmental protection as an important pillar to realize sustainable development.

The significance of green development

1. Green development is an inevitable requirement to break the constraints of resources and environment in China. China is rich in total resources, many of which rank first in the world, but the per capita resources are low. The per capita resources of oil and natural gas throughout industrial development are only 10% of the world average, respectively. At the same time, the emissions of industrial wastewater, waste gas and solid waste have been increasing at a high level, which has caused great pressure on the ecological environment.

2. Green development is an inevitable requirement for accelerating the transformation of economic development mode and optimizing industrial structure. At present, China is mainly an extensive mode of economic development, and there are few innovative science and technology industries. The economic structure is unreasonable, the primary and secondary industries are developing rapidly, and the development of the tertiary industry and supporting service industries cannot keep up.

3. Green development is an inevitable requirement to improve international competitiveness. At present, all countries in the world focus on new energy, new materials, energy conservation and environmental protection, and regard them as the focus of a new round of industrial development in an attempt to occupy the commanding heights of future economic development. As a developing country, China must also develop a green economy, form a new economic growth point and win the initiative and a place in the international market.

4. Green development is an inevitable requirement to deal with climate change. In recent years, the severe haze weather originally confined to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has also spread to many parts of the country. It is urgent to protect the ecological environment, and it is imperative to provide people with a safe and secure living and production environment. In this case, green development has become a barrier to conform to the ecological environment construction.

Extended data:

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's economic construction has made great achievements, but it has also accumulated many ecological and environmental problems. It can be said that ecological environmental pollution has become the pain of people's livelihood and people's hearts, and it is a prominent shortcoming to promote the formation of green development mode and lifestyle.

Judging from the development mode, for a long time in the past, China's economic development mainly relied on increasing the consumption of material resources, extensive expansion of scale and industries with high energy consumption and high emissions, which caused the resources and environment to be overwhelmed and posed a serious threat to the construction of beautiful China.

In recent years, China has continuously strengthened the protection of resources and environment, and the ecological environment has improved significantly. However, the threat of extensive development to the ecological environment has not been fundamentally lifted, and it is a long way to go to build a beautiful China.

In terms of lifestyle, China has a large population, insufficient per capita resource endowment and limited environmental carrying capacity. In recent years, China's residents' consumption has continued to expand and upgrade. In 20 13-20 17, the total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 1 1.3% annually, and the online retail sales increased by more than 30% annually.

At the same time, excessive packaging and wasteful consumption still exist to varying degrees. The rapid growth of resource consumption, pollutant emission, greenhouse gas emission and waste production in the field of life has become a bottleneck constraint that must be solved to build a beautiful China.

Culturally, the Chinese nation has a tradition of respecting and conforming to nature since ancient times. The Chinese civilization, which lasted for more than 5,000 years, gave birth to rich ecological culture and formed the traditional virtue of thrift.

However, under the impact of western industrial civilization and consumerism culture, the development mode of excessive consumption of resources and destruction of the environment has gradually broken the harmonious state between man and nature, and excessive luxury consumption culture is eroding simple and moderate consumption culture. To promote the formation of green development mode and lifestyle and build a beautiful China, we must inherit and develop excellent ecological culture and cultivate and practice green culture.

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