Ministry of Natural Resources： Strengthening ＂Four Governance＂ to Promote Ecological Protection and Restoration

　　CCTV News:On September 19th, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Ten Years in China" to introduce the development and achievements of natural resources in the new era.

　　Zhuang Shaoqin, Vice Minister of Natural Resources, said that ecosystem protection and restoration is a basic responsibility of the Ministry of Natural Resources and a very important content in the "two unifications". We promote ecological protection and restoration in accordance with the supreme leader’s ecological civilization thought, especially in accordance with the principles of strengthening systematic governance, comprehensive governance, source governance and legal governance.

　　In adhering to the source control, we first strengthen planning and overall planning. The national land and space planning outline has set a red line for ecological protection, and all the areas with extremely important and sensitive ecological functions in our country are included in the red line for ecological protection. For example, our nature reserve system with national parks as the main body is all in the red line. Through the demarcation of the red line, we have established a national ecological security barrier pattern of "three zones and four belts". At the same time, we have cooperated with the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments to issue a master plan for major national ecological system protection and restoration projects, and there are nine special construction plans, which make it clear that by 2035, not only ecological space, including agricultural space and urban space, but also ecological problems should be systematically restored. Therefore, we should first make overall arrangements in the whole plan and strengthen source management.

　　The second is to strengthen system governance. According to the general secretary’s idea that mountains, rivers, fields, lakes, grass and sand are a community of life, the restoration is not based on a single factor, but on the integrity of the ecosystem, and the system governance is carried out for regions and watersheds. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", we have deployed and implemented 44 systematic protection and restoration projects in the "three areas and four belts", and completed the restoration and treatment of more than 2 million hectares. At the same time, we have carried out mine ecological protection and restoration around the areas where mineral resources are concentrated, especially Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Economic Belt and Yellow River Basin, which are involved in major regional strategies of our country, with the restoration area reaching 280,000 hectares. In addition, special actions have been carried out in depth, such as the rectification of the Blue Bay, the protection and restoration of coastal zones, and the protection and restoration of mangroves. A total of 1,500 kilometers of coastline and 30,000 hectares of coastal wetlands have been restored. In addition, we also carry out ecological restoration and promote rural revitalization by carrying out comprehensive land improvement in rural areas.

　　The third is to adhere to comprehensive management, mainly to establish a new mechanism for ecological protection and restoration, especially to introduce policies to encourage and support social capital to participate in ecological protection and restoration, innovate incentive mechanisms, policies and investment and financing models, attract social capital to participate, and at the same time coordinate the reform of property rights system of natural resources assets to promote the realization of the value of ecological products. Other related policies have been introduced, such as the management policy of three types of control lines in the "three areas and three lines", how to reflect ecological priority, and reclamation and land greening. There are some policies and systems to mobilize the enthusiasm of the whole society to promote the comprehensive management of the ecological environment.

　　The fourth is to adhere to the rule of law. Form a new situation of ecological protection and repair the rule of law. In recent years, we have carried out the revision of the Law on the Protection of National Space Development, the Law on National Space Planning, the Law on Nature Reserves and National Parks, and laws and regulations related to land, forests, grasslands, wetlands, cultivated land, minerals and other fields, providing strong legal support for ecological protection and restoration.

　　In short, in recent years, according to the requirements of the supreme leader’s ecological civilization thought, we have carried out institutional changes from the above aspects, laying a good foundation for ecological environment construction.