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Arid Land Geography ›› 1999, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (4): 55-61.doi: 10.13826/j.cnki.cn65-1103/x.1999.04.009

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THE VITAL STRATEGIC PROBLEMS AND COUNTERMEASURES IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

Gao Zhigang, Lang Yihuan   

  1. Commisstion for Integrated Survy of Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:1999-04-05 Published:2025-12-31

Abstract: Sustainable development, a kind of new development view and model, is different fromthe traditional one. Its appearance shows that there has been a great change in people's knowledge to development, which is from unsustainable development to sustainable development. Itincludes three aspects: ecological, economic and social sustainable development.
China, a developing country, has made considerate achievements in the economic realm inthe past twenty years. However, as a result, the environmental situation in Chiria is worse andworse. For a long time, the feature of traditional developiment model is consumption of a lot ofresources and extensive management has a leading place. Productions rely on the input quanti-ties of resources and scale enlargement of economic entities. Between quantity-speed and quali-ty-benefit, people stress the former further. Comparing protection of resources with exploita-tion of that, people emphasize the latter. If this situation can not been changed, China's mod-ernized construction will be influenced. At present, China's national conditions consist of thefollowing aspects: plentiful population, a few per capita resources, weak consciousness of sus-tainable development, relatively poor lever in science and technology, extensive management, considerate economic differences and serious environmental pollution. Therefore, these vitalproblems should be paid a great attention to in realizing sustainable development.
On the bases of above problems, the authors put forward the following countermeasures: (1) Establishing human resources exploitation strategy based on population, education, employment, training and sustainable development; (2) Enforcing natural resources protec-tion, improving ecological environment, developing the industries of environmental protection, relying on science and technology and mitigating all kinds of contradictions; (3) Deepening thepeople 's awareness of sustainable development and perfecting the legal system; (4) Implement-ing anti-poverty strategy, promoting the economic, social, ecological sustainable developmentand shaking off poverty thoroughly; (5) Optimizing industrial structure, changing economicgrowth style and insisting on intensive development; (6) Building up resources-saving nationaleconomic system.

Key words: sustainable developrnent, strategic problem, Countermeasure, China

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