BEIJING: President Xi Jinping has called for stronger efforts to build a Beautiful China and to underpin the nation’s high-quality growth with a high-quality ecological environment, saying that Beijing will remain unwavering in honoring its climate commitments.
While reiterating China’s unswerving commitment to peak its carbon emissions before 2030 and attain carbon neutrality before 2060, Xi insisted that the pathways, methods, pace and intensity of work to reach these goals “should and must be” determined by China and be free from outside interference.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a national conference on ecological and environmental protection held in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday.
The conference, presided over by Premier Li Qiang, brought together senior officials including members of the Party’s core leadership and from the top legislature, with top officials from provincial regions attending via video link.
Xi told the conference that the next five years will be a crucial period in building a Beautiful China, highlighting the need to firmly adhere to and practice the philosophy that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. He called for a remarkable improvement in the living environment in urban and rural areas and for the nation to move forward with modernization featuring harmony between humanity and nature.
While summarizing China’s achievements in building an ecological civilization over the past decade, Xi said that China’s resolve, intensity of measures and achievements in this regard have been unprecedented. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
