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NEW BOOK: People’s China at 75 – The Flag Stays Red
Marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, saw the launch of a new book: People’s China at 75 – The Flag Stays Red. Edited by Friends of Socialist China co-editors Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez, and published by Praxis Press, the book brings together different perspectives and understandings of the trajectory… Continue reading
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How China bridges urban and rural development through ecological value
As pointed out by the resolution of the third plenary session of the Communist Party of China, integrated urban and rural development is essential to Chinese modernization. “We must promote equal exchanges and two-way flows of production factors between urban and rural areas, to narrow the disparities between the two and promote their shared prosperity… Continue reading
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China releases comprehensive policy document on green transformation
On August 11, 2024 the Chinese government released the Opinions on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development. (《关于加快经济社会发展全面绿色转型的意见》). According to the Xinhua report, this is the first time at the central government level that a systematic deployment has been made to accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.… Continue reading
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China’s 3rd Plenum Resolution and Ecological Civilization
What did China’s 3rd Plenum Resolution say about Ecological Civilization? China Ecological Civilization newsletter regularly reports on Chinese government documents with importance to ecological civilization. Its latest report is on the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization. It’s a long title. But… Continue reading
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‘Nature-based Solutions’ with Chinese characteristics
China’s approach to “nature-based solutions” (NbS) is beginning to go global. But what is it and what opportunities might it afford developing countries? NbS is a globally used concept, but a May 2024 scientific paper argues that it may have specific meanings in China. ** In a nutshell, Chinese NbS focus on large-scale, “eco-developmental” projects… Continue reading
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‘Peak China’ is a Western myth
So called “Peak China” is simply a Western campaign for China to commit economic suicide Foreword: A few days ago the European Union announced it would launch a subsidy investigation into Chinese wind turbine suppliers in several EU countries, as the bloc steps up trade protectionism against China’s new-energy industries – the fourth such “investigation”… Continue reading
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Xiamen solution & global marine governance
‘Xiamen solution’ exemplifies harmonious coexistence between man and nature, contributes to global marine governance Decoding a ‘Beautiful China’ GT Editor’s Note: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed that the environment concerns the well-being of people in all countries.… Continue reading
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Taoist Ecological Thought and Permaculture
Taoist Ecological Thought and the West’s Concept of Permaculture:Interview with former Belgian Ambassador to China Patrick Nijs is a former Belgian ambassador to China, and lifetime honorary ambassador and co-founder of the EU-China Joint Innovation Center in Brussels. He has been a witness to China’s reform and opening up since 1997, when he first came… Continue reading
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Prof Pan Jiahua on China’s zero-carbon future
COP28, the UN Climate summit, was held from 30 November to 13 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Carbon Brief’s Anika Patel spoke with Professor Pan Jiahua, vice-chair of the national expert panel on climate change of China, about his ideas for how to move to a zero-carbon future. Professor Pan Jiahua is also a… Continue reading
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Food security China’s first priority
It’s a tradition now in China: The government’s first policy statement of the year focuses on agriculture and rural development. For 2024, the “No. 1 central document” prioritizes food security and preventing a large-scale return to poverty. For the first time, the document mentions a project called “Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation.” As commentators Zheng Linyi and… Continue reading
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The Dialectics of Ecology: An Introduction
The following is the introduction to John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Society and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2024). All nature is in a perpetual state of flux.… There is nothing clearly defined in nature.… Everything is bound up with everything else. Denis Diderot1 As Harvard ecologist and Marxian theorist Richard Levins observed, “perhaps the… Continue reading
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China’s 21st century socialism
Chinese perspectives on 21st century socialism How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Underdevelopment in the Global South A contemporary Chinese saying goes, ‘In 1949, socialism saved China. In the twenty-first century, China will save socialism’. In a 2018 speech to incoming members of the Central Committee, Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) recalled that, after… Continue reading
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Harmony between humanity and nature
Promoting Harmony Between Humanity and Nature in Modernization by Advancing the Beautiful China Initiative. The following article was written by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, and appeared in Qiushi Journal, a bi-monthly journal published by the CPC Central Committee. I. Innovations in Xi Jinping thought on ecological conservation In his speech at the… Continue reading
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How China ensures food security
How is China ensuring food security for 1.4 billion people? Although pandemics, extreme weather events, and geopolitical conflicts have led to disruptions in food supply chains and rising international food prices, there is no shortage of food for the world’s population. However, hunger continues to affect millions of people. According to the latest State of Food… Continue reading
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Xi on building eco-civilization
“Several pairs of relations need to be well handled in promoting the construction of ecological civilization.” Ying Xue, on the China Ecological Civilization substack blog, has summarised an important article by Xi Jinping, published on the Qiushi magazine on November 16. Qiushi is run by the CPC central committee. It publishes articles demonstrating policies and guiding the direction… Continue reading
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China’s development path, 1949-2022
We republish this important and extremely informative article by Professor Michael Dunford, surveying and explaining China’s development path, 1949-2022. We recommend this thoroughly researched and detailed article to readers. Abstract China’s path is conceived as a transition of an economically under-developed and semi-colonised country of the Global South into a modern socialist country in a… Continue reading
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The East is red and green
In a recent review of Carlos Martinez’s book The East is Still Red – Chinese socialism in the 21st century, Stefania Fusero provides a detailed summary of the chapter on China’s environmental record (China is building an ecological civilisation), including a discussion of China’s trajectory on ecological issues, its commitment in the last two decades to… Continue reading
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Origin of China’s Eco-Civilization
Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization. The following article under the title Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization, is based on a talk presented by Professor John Bellamy Foster to the School of Marxism, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in March… Continue reading
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Significance of CPC for Global Left
In June 2023, John Ross was one of the recipients of the Special Book Award of China. John Ross is a senior fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He was formerly director of economic policy for the mayor of London. He has written extensively on China’s development and its path to socialism.… Continue reading
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China’s efficient socialist economy
This article was originally posted in China Environment Net on June 22, 2023 The difficulty the U.S. faces in its current attempts to damage China’s economy was analysed in detail by John Ross in his article “The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide”. Reduced to essentials, the U.S. problem is that it possesses no… Continue reading
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Follow China’s environmental efforts
WEB SITE: https://china-environment-news.net EMAIL:We can be contacted by emailing ChinaEnv@proton.me SOCIAL MEDIA:You can find us at: Our VK site (short for VKontakte, Russian for InContact) at https://vk.com/chinaenvironment Our Facebook group at China Environment Net on Facebook Continue reading
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Industrialization of colonial agriculture
The industrialization of agriculture by capitalism and Metabolic Rift. The industrialization of agriculture in the nineteenth century rested upon the long historical emergence of capitalism as a distinct socioeconomic order. An extract from Capitalism and Robbery: The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life, by John Bellamy Foster et al, Monthly Review, Dec 01, 2019.… Continue reading
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China’s efficient socialist economy
The difficulty the U.S. faces in its current attempts to damage China’s economy was analysed in detail by John Ross in his article “The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide”. Reduced to essentials, the U.S. problem is that it possesses no external economic levers powerful enough to derail China’s economy. The U.S. has… Continue reading
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Engels and Foundations of Marxism
Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism The following article by Professor John Bellamy Foster is based on his Engels Memorial Lecture presented to the Marx Memorial Library in London, England, on November 30, 2022. The author has revised it here, including the addition of a lengthy postscript, from the earlier version published in the Marx… Continue reading
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Markets in China’s socialism
Western Marxism’s “purity fetish” and its misunderstanding of markets in China’s socialism Carlos Garrido, the author of this article has argued elsewhere that at the core of Western Marxism’s [1] flawed analysis of socialist states lies a “purity fetish” which is grounded in a Parmenidean fixation of the ‘true’ as the one, pure, and unchanging.… Continue reading
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Professor Qingzhi Huan on Eco-socialism
For an Eco-Socialist Vision: Interview with Professor Qingzhi Huan An interview with Professor Qingzhi Huan. He is professor of comparative politics at the Research Institute of Marxism at Peking University and a professor at the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University, China. Professor Qingzhi Huan’s main research areas are environmental politics… Continue reading
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Ecological Civilization’s Socialist Roots
Professor Arran Gare is an associate professor in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry with the Department of Social Sciences at Swinburne University, Australia. He argues that the notion of ecological civilization “establishes a tradition of socialist thought that now has the potential to challenge and replace global capitalism.” The notion of ecological civilization has become central to… Continue reading
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Imperialism & Ecological Marxism
Critique of 21st century imperialism and the growth of ecological Marxism: a view from China The following was written by two Chinese Marxist academics, Professor Cheng Enfu and Dr Fu Hao, which reviews the positive role by the US magazine Monthly Review (established 1949) in contributing to Marxist political analysis in the 21st Century. A… Continue reading
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Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Riftby John Bellamy Foster and Brett ClarkReviewed by An Li for Science & Society, Volume 86, No 1, January 2022. Foster and Clark substantially extend Marx’s metabolic rift paradigm, insisting that the rift should not be considered narrowly as an environmental issue. Instead, it must be understood as an array of rifts in… Continue reading
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
Roland Boer is a Professor of Marxist philosophy in the School of Marxism at Dalian University of Technology in China, and a member of the Communist Party of Australia. He lives in China and is fluent in Mandarin. Earlier, he taught at Renmin University of China and in a number of universities in Australia. He… Continue reading
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New Environmental History of Socialism
Review of: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Socialist States and the Environment: Lessons for Ecosocialist Futures (London: Pluto Press, 2021), 288 pages, $26.95, paperback. Review by associate professor Andy Bruno. Starting in the late 1970s, a narrative emerged about the extreme levels of environmental damage in the Soviet Union and, by implication, most state-socialist countries. The explosion and initial… Continue reading
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Cuban perspective on Chinese Marxism
China Environment Net is pleased to share the following detailed and insightful article by Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernández, Cuba’s ambassador to China. Pereira delves into the meaning of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, carefully noting that it should be understood on its own terms, rather than being compared against a one-size-fits-all model: “There is no unique… Continue reading
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The materialist conception of nature
In the following article reprinted from the Monthly Review, Professor John Bellamy Foster, a leading proponent of ecological Marxism and editor of Monthly Review, is interviewed by Greek left-wing economist Haris Golemis. “I challenge the Western left to recognize that a materialist conception of history is meaningless without a materialist conception of nature—plus the role… Continue reading
