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1、环境保护与经济发展74854一The two pictures above are both about the relationship between the environment and the economic development. In the first picture, GDP is on the rise while the environment is drastically polluted. In the second picture, economic efficiency progresses with environmental protection. Its
2、 easy to get the conclusion that development according to the second picture is more reasonable than that in the first one.In the early development of socialism, our country didnt pay much attention to the issue of environmental protection and savored the bitterness. Now, the government has taken ma
3、ny measures and is implementing the strategy of “sustainable development”. One aspect of the strategy is to develop the economy and take measures to protect the environment at the same time. In this way, we can develop our country in a sustainable manner and our offspring can have enough resources t
4、o develop society. If we dont put much emphasis on the environment issue and excavate the natural resources blindly, our country will become a barren land sooner or later.In a word, sustainable development is a reasonable strategy which should be implemented for a long time. The nature is providing
5、us with plentiful resources generously, but it may punish us severely if we dont care her. 二Environmental Protection in China Foreword China is a developing country. Now it is confronted with the dual task of developing the economy and protecting the environment. Proceeding from its national conditi
6、ons, China has, in the process of promoting its overall modernization program, made environmental protection one of its basic national policies, regarded the realization of sustainable development as an important strategy and carried out throughout the country large-scale measures for pollution prev
7、ention and control as well as ecological environment protection. Over the 18 years since its adoption of reform and opening to the outside world, Chinas gross national product (GNP) has achieved a sustained annual growth of around 10 percent, while its environmental quality has basically steered cle
8、ar of the outcome of corresponding deterioration. Practice has proved that the principle adopted by China of effecting coordinated development between the economy, the society and the environment has been effective.As a member of the international community, China, while making great efforts to prot
9、ect its own environment, has taken an active part in international environmental affairs, striven to promote international cooperation in the field of environmental protection, and earnestly fulfilled its international obligations. All these have given full expression to the sincerity and determinat
10、ion of the Chinese government and people to protect the global environment.What efforts has China made to protect its own environment? What is the situation of environmental protection in China? On the occasion of the annual World Environment Day, which falls on June 5, here is a brief account:I. Th
11、e Choice of Implementing a Sustainable Development Strategy Chinas modernization drive has been launched in the following conditions: The country has a large population base, its per-capita average of natural resources is low, and its economic development as well as scientific and technological leve
12、l remain quite backward. Along with the growth of Chinas population, the development of the economy and the continuous improvement of the peoples consumption level since the 1970s, the pressure on resources, which were already in rather short supply, and on the fragile environment has become greater
13、 and greater. Which road of development to choose has turned out, historically, to be an issue of paramount importance to the survival of the Chinese people as well as their posterity.The Chinese government has paid great attention to the environmental issues arising from the countrys population gro
14、wth and economic development, and has made protecting the environment an important aspect of the improvement of the peoples living standards and quality of life. In order to promote coordinated development between the economy, the society and the environment, China enacted and implemented a series o
15、f principles, policies, laws and measures for environmental protection in the 1980s. - Making environmental protection one of Chinas basic national policies. The prevention and control of environmental pollution and ecological destruction and the rational exploitation and utilization of natural reso
16、urces are of vital importance to the countrys overall interests and long-term development. The Chinese government is unswervingly carrying out the basic national policy of environmental protection. - Formulating the guiding principles of simultaneous planning, simultaneous implementation and simultaneous development for economic construction, urban and rural construction and environmental construction, and combining the
