Greenization

It refers to implementing the industrial structure and production modes with high technological content, low resource consumption, and low environmental pollution in the economic field, as well as lifestyles and consumption modes that are diligent and thrifty, green and low-carbon, civilized and healthy, and refraining from luxury and waste and unreasonable consumption. On March 24, 2015, the “Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization”, reviewed and adopted by the Meeting of Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, proposed "to coordinate the promotion of new industrialization, urbanization, informationization, agricultural modernization and greening”. For the first time, the concept of “greening” is listed in parallel with the “new industrialization, urbanization, informatization, and agricultural modernization”, i.e., the “new four modernizations”, which enhances the understanding of “modernization”, and provides the theoretical basis as well as practical path for the construction of ecological civilization. Greening has the connotation of "economic greening", hoping to drive “green industry” and “form a new growth point for economic and social development”. Greening is still a value orientation, aiming to “incorporating ecological civilization into the Socialist core value system, and forming a new social trend of everyone, everything, and always advocating ecological civilization”. The “new five modernizations” emphasizes the integration of ecological civilization into all aspects and the whole process of modernization, not only to achieve green development in economic and social development, but also to make it a common value orientation for the whole society; it not only takes reform as the starting point of greening, but also proposes the rule of law and system guarantee; it not only has a domestic perspective, but also an international perspective, seeking international cooperation. The significance of the concept of “greening” is mainly reflected in two aspects:

(1) Greening represents the qualitative improvement of the concept of ecological civilization. After the founding of New China, greening mainly refers to “afforestation and landscaping” ; after the 1990s, greening began to be applied in the fields of food, ecological agriculture, etc., indicating “organic and pollution-free”; and later, it was gradually applied in construction, chemical, manufacturing, engineering management and other fields, indicating “environmental protection, and eco-friendly”. Nowadays, expanding the connotations of greening, and forming the “new five modernizations” represents a major upgrade of its concept.

(2) Greening is the Party ’s political commitment to the people and the future.

The proposal of greening is to raise the previous conventional environmental governance means to the height of political tasks, and to take greening as a “political task”, which meets the need for the development of ecological civilization and for sustainable development in the future.

The Communist Party of China advocates the construction of ecological civilization, mentions “greening” in parallel with the “new four modernizations”, advocates the “green” production modes and lifestyles, promotes the mainstream values of ecological civilization, promotes the construction of ecological civilization system, and strengthens “green” exchange with countries all over the world, which is an important measure for China to assume the responsibility of a majorcountry and follow the trend of the world.