Suzhou Industrial Park Ecological Civilization Construction

Ecological civilization is a civilization pattern taking the ecological environment respect and maintenance as purport, while is based on sustainable development and focused on the continued development of the future of human beings. It is also the combination of material and spiritual achievements of following human, natural, social development objective laws. In November2012, the18th CPC National Congress proceeded from the historic beginning, and made a strategic decision regarding "vigorously promote the construction of ecological civilization", while made the plans for construction of ecological civilization from the10aspects.18th CPC National Congress report gives the discourse in terms of major achievements, important position and objectives of construction of ecological civilization respectively in Part1,2and3, moreover, it also makes an all-round and profound discussion on the detailed contents of ecological civilization construction in the Part8, thereby giving a complete picture of China’s construction of ecological civilization for a considerably long time. Construction of ecological civilization is a long-term plan of vital concern to the people’s wellbeing as well as the future of the nation. With the increasing tightness of resource constraints, environmental pollution and ecosystem degradation, the ecological civilization concepts of reverence for nature, conforming to nature and conservation of nature must be established by incorporating the ecological civilization construction into the whole process of economic construction, political construction, cultural construction and social construction, and strive to build a beautiful China, thereby achieving the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.Located in Suzhou, a city known as "the paradise on earth", Suzhou Industrial Park is an important economic cooperation project between Chinese and Singapore government. SIP covers a total jurisdiction area of288sq km, among which80sq km area belongs to China-Singapore Cooperative Zone.20years of development and construction, SIP has maintained a sustained, rapid and healthy development momentum achieved GDP over one hundred billion yuan, total tax revenues over one hundred billion yuan, actual use of foreign capital over one hundred billion yuan, registered domestic capital one hundred billion yuan. While enjoying rapid economic development, SIP attaches great importance to improve the quality of development, carrying out a recycling economy pilot of water reuse, clean production, energy saving and green building, resource intensive and other indexes in the country go forefront, becoming the first batch of "national new industrialization demonstration base" and "national eco-industrial demonstration park." In order to maintain rapid and healthy development momentum, SIP will accelerate the transformation and upgrading oriented to the "second pioneering " in promoting economic development, SIP will also accelerate the optimization of the ecological environment through promoting "eco-optimized action plan "; while the goal of building the " new eastern Suzhou city" changes, SIP will be the focus of a demonstration area for sustainable development and the new most livable city. In such a historical period, SIP is necessary to carry out the construction of ecological civilization, it will help unify and enhance the development of awareness, promote and accelerate the upgrading, promote the "second pioneering" tide; conducive to the realization of the new eastern Suzhou city transformation. We can say that the construction of ecological civilization is an important way to maintain the vitality of SIP, thus to achieve another record high.