In the final analysis, the relationship between gold and silver mountains and lucid waters and lush mountains is to correctly handle the relationship between economic development and ecological and environmental protection.

This is an intrinsic requirement for achieving sustainable development, and it is a major issue that must be solved first to adhere to green development and promote the construction of ecological civilization.

Some people say that development will inevitably damage the ecological environment, so development should be slow rather than fast, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses; Some people also say that in order to get rid of poverty, it is necessary to speed up development, and it is inevitable and necessary to pay some ecological and environmental costs.

These two viewpoints oppose ecological environmental protection and development. General Secretary Xi Jinping used the metaphor of gold and silver mountains, lucid waters and lush mountains very early on, vividly and vividly clarified the dialectical relationship between economic development and environmental protection, and put forward

The important concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" provides a fundamental basis for us to build an ecological civilization and a beautiful China.

Lucid waters and lush mountains are an important part of people's happy life, which cannot be replaced by money; Lucid waters and lush mountains and gold and silver mountains are by no means opposites, the key lies in people, and the key lies in ideas.

Some localities are rich in ecological and environmental resources but relatively poor, and it is all the more necessary to explore a new way of ecological poverty alleviation through reform and innovation, so that the land, labor, assets, natural scenery and other elements in poor areas can be activated, so that resources can be turned into assets, capital can be turned into shares, farmers can become shareholders, and lucid waters and lush mountains can be turned into gold and silver mountains.

The concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets has great theoretical and practical value. For humanity to live a better life, it needs to develop its economy.

In the past, it was believed that the production of agricultural products, industrial products, and service products was economic activity and development.

However, in addition to the demand for agricultural products, industrial products and service products, human beings also need ecological products, clean air, clean water, and a comfortable environment.

In the past, these ecological products were not defined as products, and the activities that provide ecological goods were not defined as development, because before and in the early days of industrial civilization, ecological products were infinitely available and could be obtained naturally without payment.

Nowadays, energy shortage, resource shortage, ecological degradation, environmental degradation, climate change, and frequent disasters have made fresh air, clean water, and comfortable environment increasingly scarce products.

For example, arable land is needed to produce agricultural products, and ecological products are also needed

"Arable land". Ecological products

"Cultivated land" refers to ecological spaces such as forests, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, and oceans, and only by protecting these ecological spaces can we provide more high-quality ecological products.

The people's demand for ecological products has put forward new and higher requirements, which must conform to the people's new expectations for a beautiful ecological environment, take the provision of ecological products as the connotation of development, and provide more blue sky and clean water for the people.

Nature is valuable, and protecting nature is the process of increasing the value of nature and natural capital, and it is the protection and development of productive forces, which deserve reasonable returns and economic compensation.

The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed the preparation of natural resource balance sheets, and the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the establishment of a market-oriented and diversified ecological compensation mechanism, which is to explore the way to realize the value of ecological products and explore the specific path of turning lucid waters and lush mountains into gold and silver mountains.

To establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, we must correctly handle the relationship between economic development and ecological and environmental protection.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that economic development should not be the exhaustion of resources and the ecological environment, and the protection of the ecological environment should not be to abandon economic development for the sake of fishing, but to adhere to the protection of development and development in protection, and realize the coordination of economic and social development with population, resources and environment.

It is necessary to adhere to and implement the new development concept, deeply understand that protecting the ecological environment is to protect the productive forces, and improving the ecological environment is to develop the productive forces, resolutely abandon the practice of sacrificing the ecological environment in exchange for economic growth in one place and one place, and make a good ecological environment a growth point for the improvement of people's lives, a support point for sustained and healthy economic and social development, and a force point to show a good image of our country, so that the sky is bluer, the mountains are greener, the water is clearer, and the environment is more beautiful, and the Chinese land is striding into a new era of ecological civilization.