Recently, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held and issued the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Upholding and Improving the Socialist System with Chinese Characteristics, Promoting the Modernization of the National Governance System and Governance Capacity (referred to as The Decision)”, further emphasizing the strict responsibility system for ecological environment protection, which has aroused widespread concern from all walks of life.

Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), said in an interview with the People's Daily reporter that with the deepening of ecological civilization construction, the construction of relevant mechanisms, especially the top-level design, will form a more effective system guarantee, which will help President Xi Jinping's ecological civilization better guide the overall development of our society. On the basis of agricultural civilization and industrial civilization, further, implement the construction of ecological civilization, promote China's continuous and in-depth participation in global environmental governance, and highlight the image of a responsible country in the field of ecological and environmental protection.

He pointed out that the implementation of the ecological environment responsibility system should not neglect the ability of public supervision. One of the most important factors in the process of "source prevention and control" and "process strict management" is the need for people's participation and supervision. For example, there are many volunteers in our country who have been volunteering to patrol for the protection of the ecological environment for a long time. Zhou Jinfeng said that The Decision mentioned in detail the improvement of the ecological environment public interest litigation system, the audit of leading cadres leaving office, and the investigation of environmental damage responsibility, and improved the system framework from the top-level design, which also laid the foundation for the next step of the refinement and development of the supporting provisions of relevant departments.

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By / Xue Tongtong