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Recently, China has been strengthening dual control of total energy consumption and energy intensity, and witnessing power supply shortages. How do you think these factors stand to impact China's economy? Another question: Some commentators believe that the dual control policy will have a greater impact on production and people's lives – on the one hand, rising upstream prices lead to high PPI; on the other, the upstream profit is squeezing the downstream takings, and state-owned enterprises are squeezing against private enterprises. What do you make of this problem? Thank you.
Yao Jingyuan:
First of all, I think the dual control policy is a correct move. Green development is our very important path for scientific development. We must unswervingly adhere to the five development concepts, namely innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing. Achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a solemn commitment made by China as a responsible major country, and it is also our contribution to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
We live in Beijing – what have Beijing's greatest achievements been in recent years? I personally believe that it is not how many buildings have been built, how many roads have been built, or how much the GDP has grown, but the changes in the environment. For example, in my home, we previously used several air purifiers. But in the past two years, especially this year, we haven't used our air purifiers once. This reflects how the air has improved; the sky is blue, and the land is green. This is the result of our implementation of new development concepts.
Of course, when growing the economy, we need to take some issues into account. For example, how to deal with the relationship between phased tasks and long-term goals, and which aspects should be considered to maintain a certain development speed? For example, growing the economy is like driving a car. The first step is to control the vehicle well. Where should the steering wheel turn toward? It should go toward the second centenary goal, toward the direction of high-quality development, and in terms of specific operations, one is the brake, and the other is the accelerator. Don't underestimate these two things – I think they are quite important. Therefore, macro-control is an art. For example, in the specific implementation process, some problems such as "campaign-style carbon reduction" do exist. These problems indicate that the relationship between steady economic growth and structural adjustment, transformation, and upgrading is not handled properly, and it is not fully understood that promoting high-quality development is a process. From this perspective, we must adhere to the green development concept in the next step. This guiding concept cannot be changed, but in the implementation process, we must well handle the relationship between ensuring steady growth and transforming the growth model and making structural adjustments, as well as some specific problems that occur in promoting high-quality development.
As the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have already made arrangements, and we have also summed up the experience and lessons of previous macro-controls, we can absolutely deal with this series of problems well. From this perspective, as we adhere to green development and use dialectical thinking to handle some of the current development issues, there will be no problem in maintaining steady and healthy growth of the Chinese economy.
