Xinhua News Agency
Li Zhanshu, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, presided over the Yangtze River Protection Law Legislative Symposium in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province on the morning of the 6th, stressing that it is necessary to adhere to the practice of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization and comprehensively implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's protection of the Yangtze River. Important directives require that the Yangtze River protection legislation process be accelerated, a rigid constraint mechanism for the Yangtze River ecological environment be formed, and the Yangtze River Mother River should be protected by legal weapons.
Li Zhanshu said that the Yangtze River is our mother river and an important support for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to the ecological environment protection of the Yangtze River and proposes major legislative tasks for the formulation of the Yangtze River Protection Law. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the important guiding spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's 'together with great protection and not to develop'. Based on the overall situation and focus on the long-term, fully understand the importance and urgency of formulating the Yangtze River Protection Law, and do a good job in legislative work to make the Yangtze River Protection has laws to provide legal support for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Li Zhanshu pointed out that the Yangtze River Protection Law is a special law and special law that protects the entire Yangtze River ecosystem and promotes the green development and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Find the right position in the legislation and highlight the key points. The first is to clarify the purpose of legislation and the scope of application of the law, and to enhance the pertinence, scientificity, and effectiveness of the law. The second is to systematically design and arrange various systems to standardize and establish the most basic and important systems in legal form. The third is to coordinate land planning and resource development and utilization to avoid blind over-exploitation and disorderly construction. The fourth is to put the restoration of the Yangtze River ecological environment in an overwhelming position and take effective measures to increase the ecological restoration and protection. The fifth is to promote structural adjustment, promote transformation and upgrading, encourage technological innovation, and provide legal protection for the green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The sixth is to strengthen the protection of water sources and the construction of emergency standby water sources to ensure absolute safety of drinking water. The seventh is to establish a unified, efficient, coordinated and orderly management system, and form a joint effort to repair and protect development. Eighth is to stipulate stricter and stricter legal responsibilities, and severely punish violations of laws and regulations and damage the ecological environment.
Li Zhanshu stressed that it is necessary to speed up the drafting of the Yangtze River Protection Law in accordance with the legislative work plan of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and come up with a draft law as soon as possible. In the process of legislation, it is necessary to conduct in-depth investigations and studies, extensively listen to opinions and suggestions from various quarters, brainstorm ideas, unite legislative consensus, and formulate a Yangtze River Protection Law that will reassure the Party Central Committee and satisfy the people.
Shen Yueyue, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the meeting. Relevant departments of the State Council, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the responsible comrades of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress of the Yangtze River Basin, some NPC deputies, experts and scholars attended the meeting.