On March 10, 2004 (February 20, 2004 lunar calendar), the Central Symposium on Population, Resources and Environment Work was held. On March 10, the Central Symposium on Population, Resources and Environment Work was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Hu Jintao presided over the symposium and delivered an important speech. On March 10, 2004, the Central Symposium on Population, Resources and Environment Work was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Hu Jintao presided over the symposium and delivered an important speech. He stressed that in order to achieve the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and create a new situation for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must adhere to the important thought of the "Three Represents" and the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, firmly establish and conscientiously implement the Scientific Outlook on Development; we must deeply understand the important guiding significance of the Scientific Outlook on Development to do a good job in population resources and environment work, and effectively do a good job in population resources and environment work under the new situation. Party and state leaders Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun, Luo Gan and others attended the symposium. Hu Jintao stressed that adhering to the people-centered, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development concept is a major strategic idea put forward by us under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the "Three Represents", and from the overall situation of the development of the party and the country in the new century and new stage. Adhering to people-centered means that we must aim to achieve all-round development of people, seek development and promote development from the fundamental interests of the people, constantly meet the growing material and cultural needs of the people, effectively protect the economic, political and cultural rights and interests of the people, and let the fruits of development benefit all the people. Comprehensive development means that we must take economic construction as the center, comprehensively promote economic, political and cultural construction, and achieve economic development and comprehensive social progress. Coordinated development means coordinating urban and rural development, regional development, economic and social development, harmonious development between man and nature, domestic development and opening up to the outside world, coordinating productive forces and relations of production, economic base and superstructure, and coordinating all aspects of economic, political and cultural construction. Sustainable development means promoting harmony between man and nature, coordinating economic development with population, resources and environment, adhering to the path of civilized development of production development, prosperous life and good ecology, and ensuring sustainable development from generation to generation. Hu Jintao pointed out that the scientific concept of development is used to guide development and cannot be separated from the theme of development. Adhering to economic construction as the center, firmly grasping and making good use of the important strategic opportunity period, and vigorously liberating and developing social productive forces is of great strategic significance to a large developing country like us to accelerate the realization of modernization. Only by adhering to economic construction as the center and continuously enhancing comprehensive national strength can we lay a solid material foundation for the development of the party's top priority in ruling and rejuvenating the country and for comprehensive and coordinated development. The whole party and the whole country must enhance the sense of urgency to promote development, firmly grasp the center of economic construction at any time and under any circumstances, and unswervingly promote the sustained, rapid, coordinated and healthy development of the economy. Hu Jintao stressed that to establish and implement the scientific concept of development, we must promote all-round social progress and all-round human development on the basis of economic development, and promote the coordinated development of socialist material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization. We must strive to improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth, strive to achieve the unity of speed and structure, quality and efficiency, and coordinate economic development with population, resources and environment, and constantly protect and enhance the sustainability of development. We must adhere to the combination of theory and practice, and apply the requirements of the Scientific Outlook on Development to all aspects of work according to local conditions and circumstances. When talking about using the Scientific Outlook on Development to guide the work of population, resources and environment, Hu Jintao said that the work of population, resources and environment is all work that involves the vital interests of the people, and we must take the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people as the starting point and end point. We must focus on fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people, on meeting the needs of the people and promoting the all-round development of people, on improving the quality of life and health of the people, and effectively create a good production and living environment for the people, and create good conditions for the long-term development of the Chinese nation. Hu Jintao pointed out that we must always put population control, resource conservation and environmental protection in an important strategic position, and grasp the work tightly and tightly, and do it realistically and realistically. We must grasp the overall situation, highlight key points, and make comprehensive progress. We must focus on accelerating the solution of population, resources and environmental issues that are in the vital interests of the people, and strive to make new progress every year. Population and family planning work should strengthen research on population development strategies, formulate medium- and long-term development plans for the population, innovate ideas and mechanisms for family planning work, and establish and improve a system of incentives and support for family planning families in rural areas. Land and resources work should implement the strictest system for the protection of cultivated land, strengthen the investigation and evaluation of land and resources, and further strengthen the prevention and control of geological disasters. Environmental protection work should strengthen environmental supervision, speed up environmental governance in key river basins and key areas, and strengthen rural environmental protection and ecological environment protection. Water conservancy work should strengthen the construction of water supply projects, improve the ability to control water resources in time and space, actively build a water-saving society, and effectively do a good job in flood control and drought relief. Hu Jintao stressed that to establish and implement the scientific concept of development and achieve the coordinated development of economic development and population, resources and environment, we must strengthen leadership and improve the mechanism. It is necessary to insist that the top leaders of the party and government personally grasp and take overall responsibility, and fully implement the target management responsibility system; insist on giving play to the role of market mechanisms to promote the efficient use of resources; insist on giving play to the role of policy levers to strengthen macro-control of the supply and demand of important resources; insist on acting in accordance with the law, and bring population resources and environmental work into the legal track. Wen Jiabao spoke at the symposium on how to learn and implement the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao's speech and do a good job in population resources and environmental work. He pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen our country's awareness of the national conditions with a large population, few per capita resources and high pressure on environmental protection, strengthen the awareness of the unity of economic benefits, social benefits and environmental benefits, strengthen the awareness of sustainable development of resource conservation, ecological protection and resource recycling, and further enhance the sense of responsibility and urgency to do a good job in population, resources and environment work. Wen Jiabao stressed that several tasks should be done well this year: First, strengthen family planning management and services, innovate work ideas and mechanisms, and continue to stabilize low fertility levels. Speed up the establishment of a family planning work mechanism in which the floating population is mainly managed by the current residence, and establish a system of incentives and assistance for some family planning families in rural areas. Second, continue to clean up and rectify various development zones, and resolutely stop the indiscriminate occupation and abuse of cultivated land. Strengthen land planning constraints and use control, thoroughly clean up and standardize all kinds of development zones. Resolutely investigate and deal with illegal and illegal land use cases, seriously deal with the responsible persons, and make typical cases publicly exposed. Promote the reform of the land acquisition system, correct and prevent land acquisition from infringing on the interests of farmers. Third, focus on the economical use of resources, and vigorously develop the circular economy. Persist in the simultaneous development and conservation, give priority to the economical use of resources, and build a resource-saving society. At present, we must give prominence to the work of saving coal, saving electricity, saving oil, saving water, and reducing the consumption of important raw materials. We must vigorously promote energy-saving and consumption-reducing production technologies and processes, and carry out clean production. Establish a system for recycling and utilization of waste materials and renewable resources in urban and rural areas, and improve the rate of resource recycling and harmless treatment. Fourth, increase governance efforts and focus on solving outstanding problems in ecological and environmental protection. Do a good job in pollution prevention and control in key river basins, regions, sea areas, cities and the Three Gorges Reservoir area, vigorously reduce the total amount of sewage, and curb the rising trend of sulfur dioxide, soot and industrial dust emissions. Intensify the pollution control work of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Guide and help farmers to rationally use pesticides and fertilizers, properly dispose of pollutants in large-scale livestock and poultry farms, and reduce non-point source pollution in the planting and breeding industries. Continue to implement ecological construction projects such as natural forest protection, returning farmland to forests and grasslands. Fifth, comprehensively promote the construction of a water-saving society, and vigorously improve the efficiency of water resources utilization. Strengthen water-saving management in urban industries and service industries, and improve the level of wastewater treatment and recycling. Vigorously develop agricultural Study water price reform and establish a water price formation mechanism that is conducive to promoting water conservation and rational utilization of water resources. The task of drought relief this year is arduous. It is necessary to formulate emergency water supply plans for key cities, speed up the solution of drinking water difficulties for humans and animals in some rural areas, and ensure water safety. Wen Jiabao called on governments at all levels to effectively transform their functions and take the work of population resources and environment as an important task to strengthen social management. Finance at all levels should increase investment. The departments of population and family planning, land and resources, environmental protection and water conservancy should conscientiously perform their duties, strictly enforce the law, strengthen management and provide good services. At the symposium, Zhang Weiqing, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, Xie Zhenhua, director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, Sun Wensheng, minister of land and resources, and Wang Shucheng, minister of water resources, respectively reported on the work related to Xu Rongkai, Governor of Yunnan Province, Luo Qingquan, Governor of Hubei Province, Xi Jinping, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, Zhang Xuezhong, Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, and Lu Hao, Governor of Gansu Province, made speeches one after another. The leading comrades attending the symposium were: Wang Lequan, Hui Liangyu, Liu Qi, Liu Yunshan, Wu Yi, Zhang Lichang, Zhang Dejiang, Chen Liangyu, Yu Zhengsheng, He Guoqiang, Zeng Peiyan, Wang Gang, Xu Caihou, Gu Xiulian, Hua Jianmin. The main leaders of the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the central and state organs and the relevant departments of the military attended the meeting.