A few days ago, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's "Implementation Opinions on Building a Beautiful China Pioneer Zone" to explore a path model that coordinates high-quality development and high-level protection. What areas are designated in the Beautiful China Pioneer Zone? What are the differences in focus between each pilot area? Let’s look at the experts’ interpretation.

Grade-based and classified promotion to create five major strategic regions

The construction of beautiful China pioneer areas will be carried out at the regional, provincial, city and county levels, and various localities are encouraged to carry out demonstration and innovation according to local conditions.

Taking the national level as an example, there are currently five major strategic regions planned across the country, namely Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Yangtze River Basin and Yellow River Basin. According to experts, these five regions were selected because they are the main body of my country's modernization drive, and at the same time, there are obvious differences between the regions. Regional, river basin, and cross-border ecological and environmental problems are prominent, and a sound integration needs to be established. Mechanisms for environmental protection, collaborative governance, and systematic governance will create a highland for green and low-carbon development.

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Vice President of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Wan Jun:

Among them, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is under the greatest pressure to build a Beautiful China, and improving air quality is a top priority.

The Yangtze River Delta has a developed economy, dense towns and intertwined water networks. It is necessary to improve the "three provinces and one city" ecological and environmental protection cooperation mechanism to jointly build a green and beautiful Yangtze River Delta.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area involves "one country, two systems". It is necessary to explore an ecological and environmental management system that is in line with international standards and jointly build a beautiful Greater Bay Area.

The Yangtze River and Yellow River basins must coordinate the upstream, downstream, and left banks of the basins, improve high-level protection mechanisms, and create a green development demonstration belt in the Yangtze River and a high-quality development pilot area in the Yellow River basin.

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In addition, each province in our country also assumes the responsibility of the main body of work in the construction of Beautiful China, and must carry out construction pilot projects based on the positioning and characteristics of their respective provincial functions. The principle of pilot work is to be small but precise, emphasizing demonstration and leadership. In the near future, the country will focus on supporting about five provinces to develop pilot areas.

A batch of demonstration models will be formed by the end of 2027

The "Implementation Opinions" released this time proposes to form a batch of practical innovation and institutional innovation results by the end of 2027. How to build the Beautiful China Pioneer Zone?

The Beautiful China Pioneer Zone is a component of the Chinese-style modernization pioneer zone, and its goal is to create a demonstration model for the construction of Beautiful China across the region. The "Implementation Opinions" released this time clarify the overall goals and tasks of the construction of the Beautiful China Pioneer Zone, which is to focus on deepening pollution prevention and control, improving the quality of the ecological environment, and enhancing people's livelihood and well-being, focusing on promoting green and low-carbon development, and promoting the fundamentals of the ecological environment. Improve the situation, strengthen ecological protection and restoration, build a solid bottom line for ecological security, and deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system, etc. According to experts, building a beautiful China pioneer zone is an urgent need to improve the ecological environment and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

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Senior Engineer, Institute of Strategic Planning, Environmental Planning Institute, Ministry of Ecology and Environment Li Xin: In the new stage of comprehensively promoting the construction of Beautiful China, we are still facing a series of outstanding problems. The structural, root-cause and trend pressures on the ecological environment have not been effectively alleviated. There is great pressure to continuously improve the ecological environment. The task of green and low-carbon transformation is arduous. The basic conditions and problems vary greatly among regions. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of beautiful China pilot areas and encourage localities to actively explore and trial, so as to accumulate experience, create models, and set benchmarks for the country.

The "Implementation Opinions" stipulates that a batch of practical innovation and institutional innovation results will be formed by the end of 2027, and a number of demonstration models that are both beautiful and satisfactory to the masses will be built to accumulate experience for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. , Set a benchmark.

(CCTV reporters Wang Chen and Jiang Xiaoping)