Beijing, 4 Apr (Zhongxin Net) -- The second meeting of the Standing Committee of the 26th National People's Congress (NPC) voted to pass the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law on 26 April. The law will come into force on September 2023, 9.
Yuan Jie, director of the Administrative Law Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said in response to a reporter's question that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the roof of the world, the water tower of Asia, the third pole of the earth, and an important ecological security barrier in China. The formulation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law is of great significance to strengthening the ecological protection of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and building a national ecological civilization highland.
It is reported that this law has 7 chapters, including general provisions, ecological security layout, ecological protection and restoration, ecological risk prevention and control, safeguards and supervision, legal liability, supplementary provisions, etc.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law clarifies the scope of application. Yuan Jie pointed out that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as used in this Law refers to all administrative regions of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province and the relevant county-level administrative regions of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, Gansu Province and Yunnan Province, and the specific scope shall be determined by the departments authorized by the State Council.
In order to strengthen ecological protection and restoration, the Law stipulates the protection and restoration of ecosystem elements such as frozen soil of snow mountains, rivers and lakes, grasslands, forests and wetlands and the conservation of biodiversity, strengthens the key protection of core areas such as the source of the Three Rivers, strengthens the protection of precious and endangered or endemic wild animal and plant species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and stipulates the establishment and improvement of ecological corridors, soil erosion prevention and control, green mine construction and other institutional measures.
Yuan Jie said that biodiversity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau plays an important role. Regarding strengthening the conservation of biodiversity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he said that the law stipulates that national parks, nature reserves, natural parks and other nature reserves are established in areas such as the natural concentration of precious and endangered or endemic wild animals and plants and important habitats, promote the construction of nature reserves, and maintain the authenticity and integrity of important natural ecosystems.
At the same time, the law requires the investigation of wild animal and plant species, strengthens the protection of important habitats of wild animals, migratory migration channels and wild plant in-situ habitats, implements key protection for precious and endangered or endemic wild animal and plant species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and improves the degree of relevant names.
Yuan Jie pointed out that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law also requires encouraging and supporting scientific investigation and research on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, promoting the monitoring of ecological protection of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and clarifying fiscal, financial, taxation, ecological protection compensation and other support policies. (End)