Li Keqiang to promote ecological and environmental protection and other major projects
Time:2017-09-15
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on August 27 to determine to accelerate the development of commercial health insurance, help medical reform, and improve the level of medical security for the masses; deploy and promote the construction of major projects such as ecological and environmental protection elderly care services to adjust the structure to promote development and upgrade; listen to Policies and measures implement third-party evaluation reports, and reform and innovate government management methods. The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to targeted regulation and control to solve long-term problems to ensure the current stable economic and social development. Paying close attention to structural adjustment and accelerating the construction of a number of major projects to "make up for shortcomings" is an important measure to promote quality and efficiency upgrades. It is also conducive to stabilizing investment, promoting consumption, and benefiting people's livelihood. The meeting determined that the following projects will be promoted this year and next: First, the implementation of air pollution and water pollution prevention and control in key river basins, the second phase of natural forest resource protection, and the conversion of farmland to forests and grasslands will promote the improvement of the ecological environment. The second is to accelerate the construction of health service systems such as general hospitals, Chinese medicine hospitals, and rehabilitation hospitals, and build elderly care service systems such as nursing homes and rural elderly care facilities to improve the ability to serve the grassroots. Construction of public fitness activity centers, etc., to promote convenient sports fitness facilities in urban and rural areas wide coverage. The third is to vigorously develop clean energy and start the construction of a number of wind power, hydropower, photovoltaic power generation and coastal nuclear power projects. The meeting called for doing a good job in the preliminary work of the project, improving and implementing supporting policies, reforming the investment and financing mechanism, attracting more social capital to participate, and promoting the smooth implementation of the project. Experts believe that it is imperative to take ecological protection and construction as a major project to be implemented and promoted. Clear water, blue sky and a good ecological environment are the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being. China's economic development must adapt to the affordable ecological environment. Improving the increasingly severe ecological environment bottleneck is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed to realize the sustainable development of China's economy and let the people share the fruits of economic development. Xia Guang, director of the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, pointed out that the main factor restricting my country's economic development has turned into insufficient carrying capacity of the ecological environment. To promote economic development, we must first restore and improve the carrying capacity of resources and environment, and take the road of green development. In response to the development of air pollution prevention and control work, Hao Jiming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, suggested that the synergistic effect of energy conservation on air pollution prevention and control should be further emphasized, including industrial energy conservation, building energy conservation, transportation energy conservation, etc.; scientific planning and orderly promotion of urbanization; establishment of environmental goals, Determine emission reduction targets to control measures, implement them separately, and finally track and evaluate. According to the observation of people in the environmental protection industry, since July, the National Development and Reform Commission has successively issued investment plans for water pollution control in key river basins in 2014 to more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, including sewage treatment projects, ecological restoration of water pollution, and reuse of water resources. Sewage treatment and other projects involve an investment of tens of billions of yuan. "The construction of ecological civilization has a'positive energy' for my country's future economic development, and will forcefully force industrial transformation and upgrading and the continuous optimization of economic structure." Xia Guang said.