建设“美丽中国”

建设“美丽中国”

建设生态文明，关系人民福祉，关乎民族未来。党的十八大把生态文明建设纳入中国特色社会主义事业五位一体总体布局，明确提出大力推进生态文明建设，努力建设美丽中国，实现中华民族永续发展。建设美丽中国是中国梦的重要内容，就是要按照尊重自然、顺应自然、保护自然的理念，坚持“既要金山银山，又要绿水青山” “绿水青山就是金山银山”的理念，贯彻节约资源和保护环境的基本国策，更加自觉地推动绿色发展、循环发展、低碳发展。建设美丽中国，就是要给自然留下更多修复空间，给农业留下更多良田，为子孙后代留下天蓝、地绿、水清的生产生活环境。中国梦的实现不以牺牲环境为代价，在发展经济的同时，保护好生态环境。建设“美丽中国”，有利于中国的长远发展，也将助推世界可持续发展，更有助于实现人类共同的梦想：保护美丽的地球。

Building a Beautiful China

The wellbeing of our people and the future of our nation hinge on our efforts to preserve and protect the natural environment. During its 18th National Congress, the CPC therefore placed environmental preservation and protection at the top of the agenda for building a socialist country with Chinese characteristics, alongside economic, political, cultural, and social progress. It unveiled its vision to step up environmental initiatives to build a beautiful China and ensure our nation’s future development.

Building a beautiful China is an important element of the Chinese Dream. It calls for respecting, protecting, and living in harmony with nature. While we hanker after “gold mountains”, we cannot do without green mountains, as green mountains are also gold mountains. The push to build a beautiful China is based on a key national policy of resource conservation, environmental protection, and promotion of green, circular and low-carbon development. It underscores the need for leaving more space for nature to renew itself, keeping more land for cultivation, and bequeathing a better working and living environment to future generations so that they will be blessed with blue skies, green mountains, and clear waters.

The Chinese Dream will not be realized at the expense of the environment. Economic development should be accompanied by strong measures of ecological protection. The initiative to build a beautiful China will be of benefit to the country’s long-term development, to promoting sustainable global development, and to fulfilling the universal dream of protecting our beautiful earth.