CCTV News: When talking about "strengthening pollution prevention and control and ecological construction", this year's "Government Work Report" clearly proposed to "deeply implement ecological environment zoning control." What is the specific partition control? How will it be implemented in 2025? A relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment gave a detailed explanation.
Ecological and environmental zoning control is an environmental management system with the goal of ensuring ecological functions and improving environmental quality, and implementing differentiated and precise control in regions. In March 2024, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Control of Ecological Environment and Zoning", proposing that by 2025, the ecological environment Zoning Control System will be basically established, and a comprehensive and accurate and scientific ecological environment Zoning Control System will be initially formed. At present, 44,604 ecological environment control units have been designated nationwide, basically achieving full coverage, of which priority protection units account for 54.4% of the national land area, key control units account for 14.1% of the national land area, and general control units account for 31.5% of the national land area.
Jiang Hua, deputy director of the Environmental Assessment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that he will promote ecological environment zoning control and increase the breadth, intensity and depth of application in comprehensive decision-making, environmental access, park management, law enforcement and supervision. We must also guide local governments to actively use big data, satellite remote sensing and other means to strengthen supervision and law enforcement for behaviors that violate the ecological environment access list.
In 2025, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will promote the inclusion of ecological environment zoning control into the Ecological Environment Code, formulate and issue relevant work standards, guide local governments to carry out implementation results tracking and evaluation, and implement accurate and differentiated control in different regions. Focusing on the ecological protection red line, the bottom line of environmental quality, and the resource utilization, an ecological environment access list for different regions and units is compiled, providing a green ruler for optimizing productivity layout and industrial structure adjustment from the source.
Look at the construction of a beautiful China from the "Government Work Report" and accelerate the construction of pilot zones in a hierarchical and classified manner
This year's "Government Work Report" clearly proposes to "actively promote the construction of a beautiful China pilot zone and continuously meet the people's new expectations for a good ecological environment." So how will the Beautiful China Pilot Zone be built? What kind of new picture will be achieved in the end? Let’s take a look at the interpretation of the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
According to the "Implementation Opinions on Building a Beautiful China Pilot Zone" forwarded by the General Office of the State Council in January this year, the construction of the Beautiful China Pilot Zone has been in-depth in the "14th Five-Year Plan" to achieve continuous improvement of the ecological environment; consolidate and expand the "15th Five-Year Plan" to achieve comprehensive improvement of the ecological environment; the "16th Five-Year Plan" has been comprehensively improved, and the ecological environment has been fundamentally improved. We must vigorously promote the green and low-carbonization of economic and social development, accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation in energy, industry, transportation, urban and rural construction, agriculture and other fields, focus on promoting the construction of beautiful blue skies, beautiful rivers and lakes, beautiful bays, beautiful mountains and rivers, beautiful cities and beautiful villages, and paint a new picture of beautiful China with each beauty and sharing beauty.
In 2025, my country will explore a path model to coordinate high-quality development and high-level protection, and the construction of a beautiful China pilot zone will be carried out at the regional, provincial, urban and county levels respectively. At the regional level, the country plans five strategic regions to create a green development highland. They are: a demonstration zone for coordinated and ecological restoration of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, a model zone for high-level protection and promotion of high-quality development in the Yangtze River Delta, a model area for integrated Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao, a beautiful bay area for green and low-carbon development in the Yangtze River Basin, and a demonstration zone for coordinated protection and governance of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin. At the provincial level, each province has one characteristic, and the province plays the main role of the province in the construction of a beautiful China. Focus on supporting about 50 cities and about 100 counties to promote green and low-carbon development and promote fundamental improvement of the ecological environment.
