Use natural resource assets to determine the red line of ecological protection. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee pointed out that: “To build an ecological civilization, we must establish a systematic and complete ecological civilization system, and use this system to protect the ecological environment. The report of the 17th National Congress of the CPC provides a clear definition and explains the connotations of ecological civilization, and lists “constructing ecological civilization” as the new requirement for building a well-off society in a comprehensive manner ( Zeng and Liang, 2018). Under the guidance of the “scientific concept of development,” the 16th National Congress of the CPC formed the strategic concept called “building an ecological civilization” ( Du, 2015).
With the introduction of the concept of “sustainable development” by the United Nations, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposed a sustainable development strategy. Therefore, in 1983, the central government established environmental protection as a fundamental national policy for China and enacted many relevant laws ( Wang and Gao, 2017). However, economic development led to rapid deterioration of the ecological environment. In 1978, the reform and opening up of China established “economic construction” as the central task of the whole nation. There is an urgent need to protect the ecological environment, by greatly reducing environmental pollution, strengthening the importance of “ecological civilization construction” (described below), and creating a good working and living environment for the people ( Zhang et al., 2018). However, the country's enormous resource consumption has resulted in severe pollution of the atmosphere, soil, and water, leading to increasingly serious ecological problems. These reforms are of great practical significance in working toward a sustainable development path for the city.Īfter more than 30 years of rapid economic development, China has created considerable material wealth. The paper concludes that, at present, the best ways for China to reduce its carbon emissions are to implement a market price and peak–valley prices for natural gas, improve the tiered price mechanism, appropriately reduce the economic growth rate, continue to adjust the industrial structure away from heavy industry, and scientifically manage the natural gas energy system.
The research findings reveal that paying attention to the environmental aspects of energy consumption is beneficial to economic growth. Through Matlab simulation of each variable and using an evolution map, a quantitative understanding of the role of natural gas is generated. Regression analysis, data fitting, neural network, and other methods are used to confirm the parameters of the system model. In this paper, using Fuyang City in Anhui Province as a case study, a four-dimensional differential equation model, based on the consumption, price, economic growth, and “ecological civilization construction” of natural gas energy, is developed, which incorporates concepts and calculations of natural gas energy intensity, “natural gas ecological civilization intensity,” and “economic ecological civilization intensity.” It is the first attempt ever made to quantify the construction of urban ecological civilization and discuss the evolutionary relationship among the internal variables of the system.
Though making significant progress toward the maximum possible use of clean, renewable forms of energy, such as hydro, thermal, solar, and wind power, it will take a long time before China can completely abandon the use of fossil fuels. To help meet the strategic development needs of urban energy systems today and reduce carbon emissions, natural gas can play a pivotal transition role, especially in a country such as China, which has relied very heavily on coal for decades. 2Department of Mathematics, College of Information Engineering, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang, China.1School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China.Yun-li Hao 1,2, Shuang Li 1 * and Qing Xia 1