Economic Daily reporter Jin Guanping: Reducing resource and environmental costs through high-quality development.

High-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country. The State Council executive meeting held on September 19 proposed to adhere to the coordinated promotion of high-quality development and high-level protection, to strengthen green development momentum through high-level protection, and to reduce resource and environmental costs through high-quality development. Promote comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society. Ultimately, resource, environmental, and ecological issues stem from issues with development and lifestyles. It is necessary to adhere to the concept of green development, improve the mechanisms for green and low-carbon development, comprehensively implement green planning, design, investment, construction, production, circulation, living, and consumption, and build a green, low-carbon, circular development economic system, consciously limiting economic activities and human behaviors within the limits that natural resources and the environment can bear. Promote comprehensive industrial transformation and upgrading. Accelerate the elimination of outdated production capacity, promote the green, intelligent, and digital transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and reduce the proportion of high-energy-consuming and high-polluting industries. At the same time, vigorously cultivate and develop strategic emerging industries and future industries, such as energy conservation and environmental protection industries, high-end equipment manufacturing industries, and new generation information technology industries, which have low resource consumption, minimal environmental pollution, and high added value, serving as the new engines for future economic growth.