The System of Evaluation Standards for Eco-Environmental Conservation

Evaluating eco-environmental conservation means conducting accurate assessment, making science-based plans, and reviewing quantitative targets and relevant practices, in order to draw objective, accurate conclusions about harmony between humanity and nature, and thus provide reliable information for correct decision-making, rational planning, quantitative management and practical implementation.

So official standards are needed to evaluate the progress in key eco-environmental protection projects and people's sense of benefit.

Xi Jinping has issued instructions on the evaluation of eco-environmental conservation. Speaking at a study session of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee in May 2013, he said that eco-environmental protection must be based on institutions and laws, and only the strictest institutions and laws can provide the proper guarantee for such protection. He called for a better performance evaluation system for economic and social development, including the indexes of resource consumption, environmental damage and ecological benefits that could reflect the progress made, so as to create appropriate target systems, review methods, and mechanisms of reward and sanction that accommodate the needs of an eco-civilization. These will be obligatory for the officials, and guide their protection of the eco-environment.

In December 2016, the central authorities published the methods for performance evaluation in relation to eco-environmental conservation. In line with these methods, two documents were issued – one on annual green development indexes and the other on eco-environmental protection targets every five years. These all provide principles and a base for evaluation.

The evaluation will focus on both output increase and consumption reduction, both economic benefits and environmental improvement, both growth speed and development quality, so that it will offer important guidance to local governments and leading officials, and stimulate their enthusiasm, initiative and creativity to form strong synergy in building an eco-civilization.

生態(tài)文明建設(shè)評價指標體系

生態(tài)文明建設(shè)評價指標體系，是對生態(tài)文明建設(shè)進行準確評價、科學規(guī)劃、定量考核和具體實施的依據(jù)，通過客觀、準確評價人與自然和諧程度及其文明水平，為正確決策、科學規(guī)劃、定量管理和具體實施等提供科學依據(jù)。

中共中央、國務(wù)院部署的生態(tài)文明重大目標任務(wù)完成情況，生態(tài)環(huán)境改善帶給人民的獲得感，生態(tài)文明建設(shè)的成效，需要一把尺子來衡量、來檢驗。習近平多次對生態(tài)文明建設(shè)目標評價考核工作提出要求。2013年5月，習近平在十八屆中央政治局第六次集體學習時指出，保護生態(tài)環(huán)境必須依靠制度、依靠法治。只有實行最嚴格的制度、最嚴密的法治，才能為生態(tài)文明建設(shè)提供可靠保障。他要求，完善經(jīng)濟社會發(fā)展考核評價體系，把資源消耗、環(huán)境損害、生態(tài)效益等體現(xiàn)生態(tài)文明建設(shè)狀況的指標納入經(jīng)濟社會發(fā)展評價體系，建立體現(xiàn)生態(tài)文明要求的目標體系、考核辦法、獎懲機制，使之成為推進生態(tài)文明建設(shè)的重要導向和約束。

2016年12月，中共中央辦公廳、國務(wù)院辦公廳印發(fā)《生態(tài)文明建設(shè)目標評價考核辦法》。根據(jù)這一《辦法》，國家發(fā)展改革委等4部門聯(lián)合制定了年度評價的《綠色發(fā)展指標體系》和五年考核的《生態(tài)文明建設(shè)考核目標體系》，為規(guī)范生態(tài)文明建設(shè)評價考核工作提供原則和依據(jù)。

構(gòu)建生態(tài)文明建設(shè)評價指標體系并進行評價考核，既要看產(chǎn)出增加，又要看消耗降低；既要看經(jīng)濟效益，又要看環(huán)境效益；既要看發(fā)展速度，又要看發(fā)展質(zhì)量，以起到對地方政府和領(lǐng)導干部的指揮棒作用，從而激發(fā)各級政府部門、廣大干部的積極性、主動性和創(chuàng)造性，形成推進生態(tài)文明建設(shè)的強大動力。