Green consumption is an indispensable part of green development. The large land and abundant resources, large population, and insufficient per capita land and resources per capita determine the importance of green consumption. Recently, the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Green Consumption" formulated by 10 departments including the Development and Reform Commission was released to the public.

Green consumption has become an urgent need for current national conditions, and implementation requires a multi-pronged approach

Recently, the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Green Consumption" formulated by 10 departments including the Development and Reform Commission was released to the public. The opinion proposes to support the development of the sharing economy, encourage the effective use of personal idle resources, orderly develop online carpooling, self-owned car rental, homestay rental, and exchange and utilization of old things, innovate supervision methods, and improve the credit system.

Green consumption is a rational, low-carbon, and ecological consumption model. People apply the concept of green development to all areas of life (including clothing, food, housing, transportation, use, etc.), and personal consumption behavior does not harm society The overall interests and social customs do not hinder the learning, life, health and safety of others, and contribute to the all-round development of people. Green consumption advocates moderate consumption, opposes all profligate, extravagant, and extravagant consumption concepts and behaviors. On the basis of ensuring the continuous improvement of people's living standards, gradually improve the efficiency of the use of natural resources, and blaze a path of high efficiency and low carbon.

Bai Pengming, a macroeconomic researcher at CIC Consulting, believes that the "Opinions" were formulated because my country's consumption demand continues to grow, and the role of consumption in driving economic growth has become increasingly obvious. This makes the types and methods of consumption not only have a direct effect on the environment, but also have a direct effect on the environment. The direction of transformation is closely related, and indirectly affects the environment by influencing the company’s products and production methods. Demand affects supply, and green consumption can increase the market share of green products, thereby prompting companies to produce energy-saving, water-saving, environmentally-friendly, and comprehensive resource utilization projects or products.

The promotion of green consumption is of great significance

As early as in the outline of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", it is necessary to promote the formation of a green lifestyle and consumption model that suits the national conditions. This is a very important proposition. What is the national conditions of China? The vast land and abundant resources and large population are the eight characters that are often used to describe the characteristics of the national conditions. However, a brief analysis of these eight characters reveals that due to the large population, the per capita land area and mineral resources in our country are relatively small. Compare the land area of ​​the United States with the United States: The United States is 300,000 square kilometers smaller than China, but its population is more than four times that of the United States, and the per capita land area is less than 1/4 of that of the United States. If you calculate the area of ​​arable land, China’s per capita arable land is not To 1/8 of the United States. This makes it clear to us that we cannot copy the consumption patterns of Americans. The promotion of green consumption is of great significance to the construction of ecological civilization.

The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" outlines a special chapter on the green consumption model. The main content is: "Advocate the concepts of civilized, economical, green, and low-carbon consumption, and promote the formation of a green lifestyle and consumption model that suits the national conditions. Encourage consumption Those who purchase and use energy-saving and water-saving products, energy-saving and environmentally-friendly cars, and energy-saving and land-saving housing, reduce the use of disposable products, limit excessive packaging, and curb unreasonable consumption. Promote government green procurement." It is clear that the green consumption model is a resource-saving, environment-friendly consumption model, and a consumption model that conforms to the strategy of sustainable development. Promote a green consumption model, including clothing, food, housing, transportation, etc., to shift to a thrifty, green, low-carbon, civilized and healthy way.

Green consumption is an indispensable part of green development. Green production, green consumption, green culture and education, green social management, and green social fashion are all components of green development. They must reflect the harmony between man and nature and must meet the goal of sustainable development. Production, consumption, culture, society and other aspects are mutually implicated and influenced, but when they all meet the requirements of green development, each part can promote each other, and vice versa, it may have the opposite effect of "promoting retirement". The most fundamental characteristics of green development are: resource conservation, environmental friendliness, harmony between man and nature, and sustainable social and economic development. These should be reflected in the consumption activities of all kinds of people. The large land and abundant resources, large population, and insufficient per capita land and resources per capita determine the importance of green consumption.

There is still a long way to go to promote green consumption

Currently, most consumers have insufficient green consumption awareness. Non-green consumption methods abound, and even become common practice. For example, a large number of disposable chopsticks, paper cups, lunch boxes and other supplies are used in daily life; driven by consumer psychology, the frequent replacement of mobile phones, computers, TVs and other electronic products has resulted in a large amount of electronic waste that cannot be disposed of; Distinguish between recyclable and non-recyclable; purchase over-packaged goods, etc.

The promotion of green consumption requires everyone's consumption activities to conform to the concept of ecological civilization. Consumption is an activity that people carry out almost every day, and every consumption activity has an impact on resources, environment, and ecology. Therefore, in daily life, we should try our best to make our consumption green. For example, replace disposable items with durable items; strengthen maintenance and repair, extend the use time of items, and reduce waste and discard of items; actively cooperate with garbage sorting and collection, support garbage recycling, and turn waste into secondary resources; turn off lights at will to save Use water, resist over-packaged products, choose energy-saving and environmentally friendly household products; etc. As long as we start from small things, start from bit by bit, and accumulate little to make more, the effect of promoting green consumption is amazing.

To promote green consumption, green consumption publicity and education should be strengthened. Through vigorous publicity and education, people are guided to establish a diligent and thrifty consumption concept, forming a social atmosphere that takes pride in practicing green consumption and protects the ecological environment, and is ashamed of extravagance and waste and increasing ecological burdens. The Party Central Committee called for strengthening the publicity and education of ecological civilization, promoting a consumption model that conforms to the concept of ecological civilization, and forming a social atmosphere that advocates ecological civilization for everyone, everything, and all the time. We should actively respond to and consciously fulfill this call.

It is very important to promote green consumption and improve the system of ecological civilization. We should improve laws and regulations, improve the ecological environment supervision system, improve economic policies, use market-oriented mechanisms, improve the performance evaluation system, implement accountability systems, etc., and use a sound system to ensure the orderly progress of ecological civilization construction and promote people's green consumption concept Formation.