Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets (People’s Forum)

　　In Jiangsu, a good ecological environment has become the most happy public product for the people, and the people’s satisfaction with the environment has increased to 93.6%; In Hebei Province, the cumulative over-exploitation of groundwater has been reduced by 5.23 billion cubic meters, the mine area has been restored by 400,000 mu, and the grassland ecology of "three modernizations" has been restored by 2.7 million mu. In Guizhou, the ratio of days with excellent air quality in central cities is over 98%, and the excellent water quality rate in exit sections of major rivers is 100％… … Recently, a series of press conferences on the theme of "China this decade" were held in various places, with specific figures, which reflected the great development advantages and competitive advantages brought by the excellent ecological environment, and Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s concept was thoroughly practiced.

　　Profound thoughts, which have been baptized by time and tested by practice, are more and more brilliant. In August, 2005, when the then supreme leader of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee visited Yucun, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, he first put forward the important conclusion of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets". Under the guidance of the theory of "two mountains", the local area has realized the transformation from "relying on mountains to eating mountains" to "raising mountains and enriching mountains", and explored a new way to realize the mutual integration and symbiosis of economy and ecology and promote mutual progress. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has made a more profound and systematic theoretical summary and explanation of the "Two Mountains Theory" on many occasions. "We want green mountains and green hills as well as Jinshan Yinshan. I’d rather have green mountains and green hills than Jinshan Yinshan, and Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. We must never exchange the temporary economic development at the expense of the ecological environment. ""Green mountains and green hills and Jinshan Yinshan are by no means antagonistic, and the key lies in people and ideas. ""Protecting the ecological environment means protecting productive forces, and improving the ecological environment means developing productive forces. Let the green mountains and green rivers give full play to their economic and social benefits, not to destroy them, but to protect them better "… … The theory of "two mountains" is constantly enriched and perfected in the process of interaction between theory and practice.It has become the consensus and action of the whole party and society, an important part of the new development concept, and an important content of the supreme leader’s ecological civilization thought, which is more fully displayed on the motherland.

　　People live up to the castle peak, and the castle peak will live up to people. Green water and green mountains are not only natural wealth, ecological wealth, but also social wealth and economic wealth. Shanghai Yangpu Riverside has changed from "industrial rust belt" to "life show belt", and the former gathering place of old industrial enterprises has become the back garden of residents; Ningxia Helanshan sandstone mining area has become a winery after renovation, and the industrial transformation has brought rich returns; Fish ponds and cultivated land along the lake in Gusheng Village, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province have been withdrawn from ponds and returned to farmland, and the beautiful scenery has attracted more and more tourists … … Facts have proved that protecting the ecological environment means protecting natural value and increasing natural capital, and protecting the potential and stamina of economic and social development. A foreign student said with emotion: "The rapid development of ecotourism in China fully proves that ‘ Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets ’ The scientific nature of the concept. "

　　Eco-environmental protection and economic development are dialectical unity and complementary. Development and protection coexist synergistically, so as to realize the profound change of development concept, the deep adjustment of value orientation and the fundamental transformation of development mode. In May last year, the first batch of forestry carbon tickets in China was officially released. The ecological public welfare forest in Changkou Village, Jiangle County, Fujian Province was converted into carbon emission reduction and sold for more than 140,000 yuan. The locals said with emotion, "In the past, we used to make money by cutting down trees. Now we protect the forest and the air can become ‘ Real money and silver ’ 。” Economic development should not exhaust resources and ecological environment, and ecological environment protection should not abandon the marginal trees of economic development for fish. Instead, we should adhere to protection in development and development in protection, promote high-quality economic development and high-level ecological environment protection in coordination, and strive to achieve win-win economic, environmental and social benefits.

　　General Secretary of the Supreme Leader profoundly pointed out: "China’s socialist modernization has many important characteristics, one of which is that China’s modernization is a modernization in which man and nature coexist harmoniously, and it pays attention to simultaneously promoting the construction of material civilization and ecological civilization." The more difficult and challenging the development is, the more we must implement the concept of green development, the more we must strengthen the strategic determination of ecological civilization construction, and the more we must find a way in the green mountains and seek benefits from the ecological environment. In the protection of ecological environment, we should calculate big accounts, long-term accounts, overall accounts and comprehensive accounts; In economic and social development, it is necessary to establish and improve a green and low-carbon circular development economic system and promote a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Only by protecting the beautiful green mountains and green rivers, expanding the Jinshan Yinshan and realizing the coordination of economic and social development with population, resources and environment can a good ecological environment become the growth point of people’s lives, the support point of sustained and healthy economic and social development, and green become the most beautiful development background.

　　"It’s like soaking butter in hot milk tea, it’s too thick to score, and it tastes great!" In Qinghai, people who eat "tourist meals" describe good days like this. In the new era and new journey, we will learn to make good use of the "two mountains theory", make green mountains and green hills more beautiful, and make Jinshan Yinshan bigger, and we will certainly be able to embark on a civilized development path with developed production, affluent life and good ecology.

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　　People’s Daily (August 18, 2022, 04 edition)