Ecosystem rehabilitation and green development promotion are the key strategic projects to promote the construction of Yangtze Economic Zone. Seminar on the Green Development of the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River and Lin Ling’s Academic Thoughts is held in SASS on February 27th . Experts of universities and research institutions from Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, etc. and leaders from Sichuan Federation of Social Sciences Circle and Sichuan Association for Science and Technology, 100-odd in total, conduct in-depth communication on the Green Development of the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River and Lin Ling’s Academic Thoughts.
Experts hold that the green development of Yangtze River is related to the overall situation of the construction of Yangtze River Economic Zone, whose healthy development can not be separated from the ecological safety of the upper reaches of Yangtze River. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of CPC proposes the new requirement of insisting green development and building ecological security barrier and the grand blueprint of accelerating ecological civilization construction. The key point of Yangtze River Economic Zone lies in the upper reaches. Located at the middle and upper reaches of Yangtze River, as the strategic hinterland and important growth pole of Yangtze River Economic Zone, Sichuan assumes responsibility for accelerating the construction of ecological barrier of the upper reaches of Yangtze River. Sichuan takes it as an important work and aim of the 13th Five Year Plan which embodies its determination to strengthen ecological civilization construction.
At Prof. Lin Ling’s 90 years age, attendees have heated discussion on Lin Ling’s academic thoughts and speak highly of his learning attitude, spirit of innovation, good study style. Everyone agrees that Prof. Lin Ling is one of the earliest pioneers of the theoretical and practical research of China’s economic system reform as well as China’s urban economic theory and urbanization research. Prof. Lin Ling participates in and promotes enterprises reform and urban reform. In recent years, Prof. Lin Ling focuses on the construction of Yangtze River Economic Zone Construction and proposes several valuable suggestions to the State Council and Sichuan Committee of CPC and Sichuan Government on the ecological construction of the upper reaches of Yangtze River and the west route of South to North water transfer project. Prof. Lin Ling devotes his whole life to the research of China’s reform and openness and his learning attitude, knowledge and character inspires experts and scholars to make contributions to China’s economic and social development and rejuvenation.