Environmental Protection in China in the Past 70 Years

The development of the People’s Republic of China in the past 70 years is the greatest miracle in the modern world. The past 70 years have seen China, with a population of more than 1.3 billion, grow from a poor country to the second largest economy in the world. The Chinese government has worked to keep its environmental protection policy up to date, with emphasis shifting from the control of wastewater, exhaust gas, and solid waste to the development of ecological civilization. With environmental protection at the center of modernization, it has proposed a grand blueprint for building a beautiful China, and is gradually moving toward the center stage of global environmental governance. China is joining hands with other countries to build a community with a shared future for mankind and a clean and beautiful world. This unprecedented ambition attracted worldwide attention. In particular, China’s achievements in environmental protection and ecological civilization development since the 18th National Congress of the CPC received praise and recognition from the Chinese people and the international community.