Energy saving and emission reduction, what is reduced is gained

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Pollution emission reduction not only reduces the emission of major pollutants, but also reduces the burden of China's economic development in a deeper level and meaning. 　　A clear and profound understanding of this point is particularly necessary in the current situation where China is increasingly affected by the international financial crisis and some places are becoming more and more eager to maintain growth. 　　 * * Zhang Ping, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, recently addressed the country * * * * When the meeting reported on the mid-term implementation of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" outline, it sounded the alarm to people. “Among the eight binding indicators proposed in the 11th Five-Year Plan outline, the forest coverage indicator is difficult to accurately evaluate due to the lack of annual data, and the progress of the two indicators of energy conservation and emission reduction is relatively lagging behind. This means that during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the situation is relatively severe in order to complete the energy conservation and emission reduction tasks specified in the plan. 　　in the party and * * With great attention, through local governments at all levels * * With the joint efforts of , environmental protection and related departments, my country's pollution reduction work has been steadily advancing in the past two years. China's pollution reduction has made certain progress in 2007. The total national chemical oxygen demand and sulfur dioxide emissions dropped by 3.14% and 4.66% respectively compared with 2006, achieving a double decline. ； In the first three quarters of last year, the country's total chemical oxygen demand and sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 2.7% and 4.2% respectively. 　　This achievement is particularly hard-won in the context that my country's extensive economic growth model has not yet been fundamentally reversed and GDP growth has remained at a high level for many years. While we are excited and encouraged by the achievements, we must be clearly aware that to consolidate this achievement, make greater progress, and finally complete the binding targets for pollution reduction in the "11th Five-Year Plan", we need to make unremitting efforts and make greater efforts. And the sudden international financial crisis * Sweeping the world, many places in our country have also been hit hard by surprise. The decision-making brought about by the mentality of eager to resume production, activate the economy and ensure growth is likely to have an impact on the in-depth advancement of pollution reduction work. 　　Although in recent years, more and more places have * * Recognizing the great significance of pollution reduction for economic, social, scientific and sustainable development, it has been listed as a key task, but it is undeniable that there are still some places where * * Treat pollution reduction only as an environmental protection task, and separate environmental protection, pollution reduction and economic and social construction. Under the situation of good economic environment and smooth capital accumulation, we can adapt to the situation. * * However, once we encounter market fluctuations and GDP growth slows down, we will inevitably relax environmental protection requirements and even waver in our determination to complete pollution reduction. 　　Actions that are forced by external forces are always difficult to become conscious actions, and the effects of actions are often greatly compromised because of this. To truly gather the internal motivation to promote pollution reduction, we must clearly understand what pollution reduction has reduced us and what we have increased. 　　The severe economic situation currently facing our country has clearly shown that the international financial crisis is only an external factor affecting our country's economic development, while the long-standing extensive growth model and the various drawbacks and chronic diseases resulting from it are the internal constraints that affect the sustainable development of our country's economic and social development. The blind expansion and excessive growth of high-consumption, heavy-pollution, and low-efficiency industries not only burden us with huge costs of resource and environmental consumption, but also put us at a disadvantage at the low end of the industrial and economic chain in the international economic competition. Once we are involved in the vortex of an economic crisis, we can easily become a victim. The externalization of resource and environmental costs has caused us to excessively consume the basic production factors that support development, and lacks sufficient guarantee, stamina and motivation in the process of responding to the economic crisis. This is an urgent problem that we must face up to and solve immediately. 　　Pollution emission reduction is an important means to resolve this deep-seated contradiction and eliminate this key sticking point. Pollution reduction reduces not just pollutant emissions, but also the heavy burden of excessive resource and environmental costs in the long term during economic and social construction and development. Through structural emission reduction, adjust the industrial structure, promote the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure, and promote the economic structure with low consumption, low pollution, high technology content and high efficiency. * * The economy moves towards the high end of the world economic chain, relying on the improvement of internal strength to enhance the ability to resist risks. ； Promote significant reductions in pollutant emissions through engineering emission reductions, free up environmental capacity for regional and socio-economic sustainable development, and increase its potential for future development and participation in international competition. ； By managing emission reductions and standardizing the production behavior of enterprises, enterprises can reduce costs and improve efficiency by participating in the circular economy and implementing cleaner production, and occupy a favorable position on the international trade platform. 　　In a word, pollution reduction is not an end, but a means. The real purpose is to increase, expand the space for development, enhance the potential for development, enrich the foundation for development, and improve the quality of development. 　　In order to ensure sustained, stable and rapid economic development, * * A number of measures have been formulated to expand domestic demand and huge financial guarantees have been provided. Ecological and environmental protection is listed as one of the important contents. This shows that there is no conflict between maintaining growth and achieving energy conservation and emission reduction goals. Strengthening investment in energy conservation and emission reduction itself is also conducive to promoting economic growth. Only by completing pollution reduction targets can we effectively promote environmental protection to optimize economic growth and effectively gather the core competitive advantages of our economy. 　　Give up in order to take. Abandoning pollution can create space and capabilities for scientific development. Unswervingly insisting on reducing pollution emissions has no choice, whether it is to cope with the international financial crisis or to achieve sustainable economic and social development in the future.