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.

建設“美麗中國”

建設生態文明，關系人民福祉，關乎民族未來。黨的十八大把生態文明建設納入中國特色社會主義事業五位一體總體布局，明確提出大力推進生態文明建設，努力建設美麗中國，實現中華民族永續發展。建設美麗中國是中國夢的重要內容，就是要按照尊重自然、順應自然、保護自然的理念，堅持“既要金山銀山，又要綠水青山” “綠水青山就是金山銀山”的理念，貫徹節約資源和保護環境的基本國策，更加自覺地推動綠色發展、循環發展、低碳發展。建設美麗中國，就是要給自然留下更多修復空間，給農業留下更多良田，為子孫后代留下天藍、地綠、水清的生產生活環境。中國夢的實現不以犧牲環境為代價，在發展經濟的同時，保護好生態環境。建設“美麗中國”，有利于中國的長遠發展，也將助推世界可持續發展，更有助于實現人類共同的夢想：保護美麗的地球。