Ecological Well-Off: An Analysis On The Approach Of Sustainable Development In China's Mountainous Areas

The keystone and difficulty to construct comprehensive well-off society in China is in countryside, especially in the mountainous area where over 700 million people live in. It is important to objectively analyze the actuality of economic and social development and to research the realistic approach of constructing well-off society in mountainous area. This article based on analyzing the mountainous area in Xianning city, put forward the ecological well-off is the basic approach to realize sustainable development in mountainous area.This article expounded the economic meaning of ecological well-off and its theoretical bases, comprehensively analyzed main contradictions and problems in economic and social development at present in mountainous area according to the general purpose of constructing well-off society in all-round way. These contradictions mainly are: the contradiction between the rich natural resources and the slow development of economy and society; the contradiction between rich basic productive factors and the shortage of high grade productive factors; the contradiction between the occupancy and use of environment without compensation and the self-conscious protection of environment; the contradiction between emphasizing the productive value of resource and despising the ecological value of resource. These contradictions and problems led to the result of "rich and poverty" in mountainous area. The research keystone of this article is to transfer the advantage of rich natural resources in mountainous area to the economic advantages. It adhered to combine theory and practice, emphasized empirical research, demonstrated that ecological well-off is not only the necessary choice for mountainous area to realize sustainable development in 21st century but the necessary choice to exert ecological advantage and realize the win-win aim of ecological construction and economic development. It is the best path to suit the demand of modern market economy development, to realize the goal of constructing comprehensive well-off society in mountainous area.Ecological well-off is a totally new development mode that surpassed the traditional economic growth of "treatment after pollution". It can effectively shorten the gap between developed plain area and mountainous area, realize the goal of comprehensive well-off and create a new start point of ecological economy with higher competitive power for mountainous area in the future. The article believed that constructing ecological well-off must take green industry as central task. It put forward the development strategy of "four villages and towns, six industries" combined with the practice of Xianning. Xianning's mountainous area located in Wuhan city zone, its special ecological advantage made it to become the back garden of Wuhan. The construction of Wuhan city zone provided a good opportunity for the construction of ecological well-off in the mountainous area of Xianning. Xianning as an ecological big city will walk up to the whole country and the world in the process of ecological well-off construction, to realize economy and society better and quicker development.This article thoroughly and concretely dissertated the base and key to realize ecological well-off in mountainous area. It put forward that the benign ecological system is the base of realizing ecological well-off in mountainous area. Then it put forward that constructing sustainable ecological development system is the goal for mountainous area to construct benign ecological system. Also it put forward that the key for ecological well-off construction is to develop the human resource in mountainous area preferentially. Human resource is the first resource. To develop human resource is the premise and condition to develop natural resource and economic resource, plays a leading role in economic growth. The article further dissertated the exploitability and importance to develop human resource in the compare of conception and action in the fanners between Xianning mountainous are and Wenzhou. Then it put forward that the aim of developing human resource in mountainous area is to improve the diathesis of population, the keystone is cultural education, and the difficulty is to cultivate the market concept, competitive concept and opening up concept. It analyzed the reasons leading to backwards of cultural education, put forward new ideas and methods to develop cultural education, emphasizing to cultivate the market concept, competitive concept and opening up concept of residents in mountainous area through education, introducing and development, to promote ecological well-off construction by concepts changing.This article primarily discussed the measure standard of ecological well-off, i.e. ecological well-off index system in mountainous area. The core of the index system is green growth and green development. It is an index system taking comprehensive well-off index system as basic frame, implementing green GDP calculation. It embodied the essential demand of sustainable development. The establishment of the index system can guide ecological well-off construction successfully. The innovative aspects of this article are: firstly it puts forward and dissertates the concept of ecological well-off, expanding the connotation and extension of well-off. Secondly it puts forward and primarily dissertates the basic frame and core contents of the index system of ecological well-off. Thirdly it roundly discusses the main path for Xianning city as ecological big city to realize the ecological well-off.