In the name of the law, guard the green waters and green mountains

2023-08-14

On June 28th, the third meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Establishing National Ecological Day, which designated August 15th as National Ecological Day. As the first National Ecological Day approaches, let's review the legislative work on ecological and environmental protection in China since the 18th National Congress. In 2018, the Constitutional Amendment incorporated ecological civilization into the Constitution, forming a systematic pattern of constitutional ecological civilization system composed of the fundamental tasks in the preface, the ecological environment protection system in the "General Outline", and the legal responsibilities of "national institutions". It established the constitutional position of ecological civilization and provided constitutional guarantees for promoting the modernization of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has formulated and revised a total of 19 laws in the field of ecological and environmental protection, and is currently reviewing one law and making one relevant resolution. Among them, in terms of resource protection and utilization, the Yangtze River Protection Law, the Yellow River Protection Law, the Wetland Protection Law, the Black Land Protection Law, the Qinghai Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law, the Biosafety Law, and the Deep Sea Seabed Regional Resource Exploration and Development Law have been formulated, filling the shortcomings and weaknesses in China's resource protection and utilization field and carrying out institutional innovation. At present, there are more than 30 effective laws on ecological and environmental protection, over 100 administrative regulations, and over 1000 local regulations, which have preliminarily established a legal system for ecological and environmental protection. In addition, the State Council and its relevant departments have formulated and revised a large number of laws, regulations, standards, and normative documents for ecological and environmental protection; The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate have formulated over 20 judicial interpretations for handling cases of environmental pollution crimes, public interest litigation, and disputes over ecological environment infringement liability. Complete the filing and review of the 2015 legislative amendment, granting local legislative power to cities and autonomous prefectures with districts. Among the three matters that can formulate local regulations, "environmental protection" is included. In 2023, the Legislative Law was amended to change "environmental protection" to "ecological civilization construction". In the past decade, a large number of local regulations and local government regulations have been formulated around the field of ecological environment protection, becoming a prominent feature of local legislation. Yan Dongfeng, Director of the Filing and Review Office of the Legal Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, introduced that in order to prevent "legislative water leakage", maintain the unity of the national rule of law, and help strengthen ecological environment protection and the construction of a beautiful China, the Legal Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress actively carries out filing and review work. One is the department

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