The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) held a special press conference at 10:00 a.m. on the 11th to introduce the "National Major Project Plan for the Protection and Restoration of Important Ecosystems (2021-2035)" and answer questions from reporters, with comrades in charge of relevant departments and bureaus of the NDRC and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau in attendance. China.com live broadcast, the following is the live transcript.

China Mining News reporter: Please ask the director Zhou, ecological protection and restoration is a professional, scientific, systematic work, the past has also been reported in the media, semi-arid areas used to dig fields to divert water to create lakes, artificial excessive restoration, there are problems against the laws of nature. How does the Plan grasp and reflect the scientific nature of ecological restoration? Thank you.

Zhou Yuanbo, Director of the Department of Ecological Restoration of Land Spaces, Ministry of Natural Resources: You mentioned the issue of the scientific nature of ecological protection and restoration, which does exist in our work reality and practice at present, there are both objective and subjective reasons. In order to solve this problem, in the preparation of the "planning" process, we adhere to the Xi Jinping thought of ecological civilization as a guide, and strive to implement the scientific nature of ecological protection and restoration throughout. In the specific preparation process, based on the analysis of the spatial and temporal layout, current problems, and background characteristics of different ecosystems in China, strict protection and scientific restoration requirements were made in the overall requirements, basic principles, planning objectives, general layout, key projects, as well as task initiatives and safeguard measures of the Plan.

The next step in the work, but also in the implementation of the "Plan", we will also focus on grasping the following five aspects.

First, we should strengthen research on major ecological issues, to follow the internal laws of natural ecosystems and their own mechanisms, combined with changes in the natural geographic pattern, the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of natural resources, analysis in the context of climate change, some major ecological risks, while trying to study some of the strategies and approaches to cope.

Second, we should adhere to the priority of protection. We should improve the legal system of nature reserves, forests and grasslands, marine environment, etc., and investigate the responsibility of ecological and environmental damage in accordance with the newly promulgated Civil Code, speed up the construction of the "multi-regulation" planning system of national land space, and strengthen the use control, and coordinate the delineation and strict adherence to the ecological protection red line, permanent The three control lines of ecological protection red line, permanent agricultural land and urban development boundary, as well as the various protection lines of the sea, to ensure that the area of ecological space will not be reduced, the nature will not change, and the function will not be reduced. To promote the reform of property rights of natural resources assets, to promote the conservation and intensive development and use of resources, to gradually establish and improve the source of prevention, process control, compensation for damage, responsibility for ecological protection system system, and resolutely prevent the "first damage after treatment" this old road, to change the passive repair for active protection.

Third, we must adhere to the natural recovery-oriented. Drawing on some advanced international concepts, experience and practices, around water conservation, soil conservation, wind and sand control, biodiversity conservation and coastal zone protection and other ecological services to enhance the current various types of ecological degradation and destruction, as well as their degree of damage and destruction, respectively, to adopt conservation and protection, natural restoration, auxiliary restoration, ecological reshaping and other restoration and protection models, to avoid excessive Artificial intervention, resolutely opposed to all kinds of flashy and unrealistic or even sensationalist bonsai projects and image projects.

Fourth, we must highlight the systemic and holistic nature. Focus on the continuity and integrity of natural geographic units, as well as the connectivity of species habitats, co-ordinate various natural ecosystems, co-ordinate the relationship between land and sea, mountain and mountain, above and below the ground, upstream and downstream, and promote the overall protection, systematic restoration and comprehensive management of landscape, forest, lake and grass.

Fifth, we must adhere to the water, depending on the amount of water. Fully consider the endowment conditions and carrying capacity of water resources, adhere to the appropriate forest, irrigation, irrigation, grass, wet, wet, wilderness, respect the objective law, enhance the ecological function.

Reprinted from China Mining News website http://www.zgkyb.com/yw/20200611_62846.htm