A Study On China’s Low-carbon Economy Development From The Perspective Of Ecological Marxism

Since promoting the reform and opening up policies in 1978, China has made great progress. Firstly, China’s economy has achieved sustainable and rapid development; the comprehensive national power has further enhanced and the economic aggregate has ranked second in the world. Such brilliant achievements in socialist economic construction are closely related to the great emancipation of productive forces in China. Secondly, the people’s livelihood has been significantly improved. Chinese people have stepped into well-off level as a whole. Currently, China is the only country in the world to achieve the target of halving poverty in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The per capita disposable income and per capita housing area have increased substantially. Thirdly, the market economy system has been initially established to adapt to the economic development in which the market plays a decisive role in resource allocation, and the basic framework of the market economy has basically taken shape in China.However, with the accelerated pace of socialist modernization in China, many new issues show up, among which ecological and environmental issues are the most intractable. Economic development is constrained and troubled by resource shortages, air pollution, water pollution and other issues. China has become one of the world’s largest acid rain areas, following Europe and North America; life wastewater is discharged without being treated properly. And soil degradation results in the destruction of vegetation.The ecological and environmental issues above have become the bottleneck to China’s economic and social development. It is necessary for us to improve the public awareness of low-carbon and apply theories to solve the issues of the relationship between environmental protection and economic construction from a fresh perspective. This paper aims at exploring a road of low carbon economy with Chinese characteristics by observing our current ecological and environmental issues from the perspective of ecological Marxism and analyzing the status quo of the development of China’s low-carbon economy to draw the intrinsic relationship between ecological Marxism and low-carbon economy.