"China has become the country with the largest increase in greening in the world." At the press conference of the Third Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference held on March 3, the words of spokesperson Liu Jieyi expressed his pride in my country's achievements in ecological civilization construction and showed the world China's determination to develop greenly.

my country is moving steadily on the road of green development. Since proposing the concept of "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains" to clarifying the "dual carbon" goal, my country has elevated the construction of ecological civilization to an unprecedented strategic height, achieved a leap from concept to action, and from passive to active transformation, making important contributions to the construction of global ecological civilization. The picture of building a beautiful China is slowly unfolding, and China's green development achievements are attracting global attention.

The leap from concept to action. In the past year, the proportion of days with good air in the country has reached 87.2%, the proportion of sections of excellent surface water quality in the country has reached 90.4%, the forest coverage rate has exceeded 25%, and the area of ​​artificial forests ranks first in the world. The clear and bright "Beijing Blue" is no longer "limited time and free", but gradually becomes "monthly service and annual consumption"; the Yangtze River and the Nine-Curve Yellow River are rejuvenated; the "Green Scarlet" that stretches 3,046 kilometers and the Taklamakan Desert are locked. Behind the achievements is China's persistent practice of green development concepts.

The transformation from passive to active. my country coordinates industrial structure adjustment, pollution control, ecological protection, and climate change response, and builds the world's largest and most complete new energy industry chain, with the number of new energy vehicles accounting for more than half of the world; the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in the world's largest and the fastest development speed in the world; the national carbon market system is gradually improved to achieve full coverage of emission reduction entities. Since the new era, my country has resolutely abandoned the old path of Western countries' "pollution first, then governance", unswervingly followed the path of ecological priority and green development, and achieved a major transformation from passive response to active action.

Show China's responsibility in the construction of global ecological civilization. my country actively promotes the international community to fully and effectively implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, promotes in-depth docking between the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, actively participate in global environmental governance, and effectively fulfills relevant treaty obligations such as climate change and biodiversity, and become an important participant, contributor and leader in the construction of global ecological civilization. Faced with ecological environment challenges, China has propositions and responsibilities, contributes successful experience and provides public products, has won wide praise from the international community and injected confidence and strength into the world.

The construction of ecological civilization will benefit the present and the future. China in the new era has proved with practical actions that green development is not a burden but an opportunity, not a stopgap measure but a long-term strategy. Adhering to the concept of green development and building a modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, China's path to green development will surely become wider and wider. (Source of this article: Economic Daily Author: Liu Jin)