A Beautiful China

A beautiful China is a major goal of the country's effort to build an eco-civilization. It is also an important part of the grand picture of national rejuvenation. The 18th National Congress of the CPC listed eco-environmental progress along with economic, political, cultural and social progress in the Five-sphere Integrated Plan as the goals for building Chinese socialism, vowing to promote eco-environmental progress, build a beautiful China and achieve sustainable development of the Chinese nation. This also showed the CPC's deeper understanding of socialist development and its firm resolution to build an eco-civilization.

The 19th National Congress of the CPC stated that building an eco-civilization is vital to sustaining the Chinese nation's development. It set the goal of developing China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by the mid-21st century, after achieving basic modernization by 2035.

To build a beautiful homeland, China needs to follow the principles of respecting, accommodating and protecting nature, and act on the understanding that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. China will continue its national policy on resource conservation and environmental protection, and promote green, circular and low-carbon development. The initiative underlines the need to leave more space for nature to renew itself, to keep more land for cultivation, and to bequeath a better working and living environment to future generations so that they can be blessed with blue skies, green fields and clear waters.

Since 2012, the CPC central leadership has made eco-civilization a priority in China's overall work. Fundamental, pioneering and far-sighted efforts have been devoted to pollution prevention and control, with a holistic approach to conserving mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands and harnessing deserts.

China has paid the greatest attention to pollution control, adopted more new policies and measures giving priority to conservation, exercised the strictest supervision and law enforcement, and produced the fastest improvement of the environment. Historic, far-reaching changes have been made to people's awareness about eco-civilization and their own actions.

Relevant projects include: integrated protection and restoration for mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands; large-scale land greening campaigns; nationwide green environment campaigns; eco-conservation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Yellow River Basin; improvement of the Erhai Lake in Yunnan Province; and environmental protection of the source regions of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers in Qinghai Province. Household waste sorting has been implemented across the country, and strict laws and regulations on eco-environmental protection have been enforced.

The Chinese Dream cannot be realized at the expense of the environment. A beautiful China will not only benefit the Chinese people, but also promote sustainable development around the world. It will help with the building of a beautiful earth and a better homeland for all.

美麗中國

美麗中國是生態文明建設的重要目標，也是實現中華民族偉大復興中國夢的重要內容。中共十八大把生態文明建設納入中國特色社會主義事業“五位一體”總體布局，明確提出大力推進生態文明建設，努力建設美麗中國，實現中華民族永續發展。這標志著中國共產黨對中國特色社會主義規律認識的進一步深化，表明了中國共產黨加強生態文明建設的堅定意志和堅強決心。中共十九大深刻指出，生態文明建設是關系中華民族永續發展的根本大計，明確提出從2035年到本世紀中葉，在基本實現現代化的基礎上，再奮斗15年，把中國建成富強民主文明和諧美麗的社會主義現代化強國。

具體而言，建設美麗中國就是要按照尊重自然、順應自然、保護自然的原則，秉持“既要金山銀山，又要綠水青山”“綠水青山就是金山銀山”的理念，貫徹節約資源和保護環境的基本國策，更加自覺地推動綠色發展、循環發展、低碳發展；就是要給自然留下更多修復空間，給農業留下更多良田，為子孫后代留下天藍、地綠、水清的生產生活環境。

中共十八大以來，中共中央把生態文明建設擺在全局工作的突出位置，全面加強生態文明建設，開展了一系列根本性、開創性、長遠性工作，堅決打贏打好污染防治攻堅戰，統籌山水林田湖草沙治理，污染治理力度之大、制度出臺頻度之密、監管執法尺度之嚴、環境質量改善速度之快前所未有，生態文明建設從認識到實踐都發生了歷史性、轉折性、全局性的變化。例如，實施山水林田湖草一體化生態保護和修復，開展國土綠化行動、全民綠色行動，推動長江經濟帶、黃河流域綠色發展，推進云南洱海治理、青海三江源保護，促進垃圾分類蔚然成風，實行最嚴格制度、最嚴密法治保護生態環境等。

中國夢的實現不以犧牲環境為代價，在發展經濟的同時，保護好生態環境。建設美麗中國，有利于中國的長遠發展，也將助推全球可持續發展，更有助于實現人類共同的夢想——保護美麗地球、建設綠色家園。