Liaoning Unveils its "14th Five-Year Plan" for Ecological Economy Development

Release Time:2022-02-18 Big Small

The "14th Five-Year Plan for Ecological Economy Development of Liaoning Province" (hereinafter referred to as "the Plan"), compiled chiefly by the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently unveiled by the Liaoning Provincial People's Government. 

The Plan noted that by 2025, a modern ecological economy industrial system with industrial ecologicalization and ecological industrialization characteristics will be initially established in Liaoning, and a green development pattern driven by technological innovation and digital intelligence will be formed basically; by 2035, ecological economy will play an important role in all-round revitalization of Liaoning, and a Liaoning Model for the joint development of regional economy, harmonious society and healthy ecology will be built.  

The Plan is Liaoning's first "Five-Year Plan" in ecological economy domain. The Plan clarifies the definition of ecological economy, including a scoring system for evaluating ecological economy, a designed path to industrial ecologicalization, a feasible path for ecological restoration, the plans to implement major ecological and economic projects, and the measures to ensure the Plan a success. Measures taken in these respects will create new, high-quality development momentum and will form Liaoning's new competitive advantage. 

The Liaoning provincial party committee and government attached great importance to the drafting work of the Plan. The drafting team consisted of researchers from IAE, Northeastern University, Liaoning Normal University, Liaoning University, Northeastern University of Finance and Economics, Shenyang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Liaoning Environmental Science Center, the Institute of Nonferrous Metals Exploration of Liaoning Province, etc. Fang Yunting, deputy director of IAE, was assigned as the team head, Xue Bing, chief researcher of the Industrial Ecology Group of IAE, and Liu Miao, chief researcher of the Landscape Ecology Group of IAE, were assigned as the deputy heads of the team. 

The Liaoning Provincial Political Consultative Conference and the Provincial Department of Natural Resources sent delegations formed by the drafting team members to go to Fuzhou, Ningde, Xiamen, Changchun, Benxi, Tieling, Shenyang and Dalian for on-site learning. The main concerns of the Plan involve industrial ecologicalization, ecological economic indicators, agricultural ecological economy, and ecological security zoning, etc. To ensure a high-quality planning, the drafting team organized more than 20 seminars and inter-departmental meetings. 

The Plan condenses the wisdom of all walks of life in Liaoning Province. Before its official release, the preliminary versions of the Plan had been conveyed to local governments, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, the Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau, the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, several other departments, grass-roots organizations, relevant experts, and the public to solicit for opinions.  

  

A link to the full text of the Plan at website of Liaoning Provincial People's Government (ln.gov.cn) 

Fig.1 Seminar on agricultural ecological economy held at IAE on October 11, 2020

Fig.2 Delegation visiting Fujian on October 16, 2020

Fig.3 Reporting work progress to Liaoning Political Consultative Conference on April 22, 2021