The System of Evaluation Standards for Eco-Environmental Conservation
Evaluating eco-environmental conservation means conducting accurate assessment, making science-based plans, and reviewing quantitative targets and relevant practices, in order to draw objective, accurate conclusions about harmony between humanity and nature, and thus provide reliable information for correct decision-making, rational planning, quantitative management and practical implementation.
So official standards are needed to evaluate the progress in key eco-environmental protection projects and people's sense of benefit.
Xi Jinping has issued instructions on the evaluation of eco-environmental conservation. Speaking at a study session of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee in May 2013, he said that eco-environmental protection must be based on institutions and laws, and only the strictest institutions and laws can provide the proper guarantee for such protection. He called for a better performance evaluation system for economic and social development, including the indexes of resource consumption, environmental damage and ecological benefits that could reflect the progress made, so as to create appropriate target systems, review methods, and mechanisms of reward and sanction that accommodate the needs of an eco-civilization. These will be obligatory for the officials, and guide their protection of the eco-environment.
In December 2016, the central authorities published the methods for performance evaluation in relation to eco-environmental conservation. In line with these methods, two documents were issued – one on annual green development indexes and the other on eco-environmental protection targets every five years. These all provide principles and a base for evaluation.
The evaluation will focus on both output increase and consumption reduction, both economic benefits and environmental improvement, both growth speed and development quality, so that it will offer important guidance to local governments and leading officials, and stimulate their enthusiasm, initiative and creativity to form strong synergy in building an eco-civilization.
生態文明建設評價指標體系
生態文明建設評價指標體系，是對生態文明建設進行準確評價、科學規劃、定量考核和具體實施的依據，通過客觀、準確評價人與自然和諧程度及其文明水平，為正確決策、科學規劃、定量管理和具體實施等提供科學依據。
中共中央、國務院部署的生態文明重大目標任務完成情況，生態環境改善帶給人民的獲得感，生態文明建設的成效，需要一把尺子來衡量、來檢驗。習近平多次對生態文明建設目標評價考核工作提出要求。2013年5月，習近平在十八屆中央政治局第六次集體學習時指出，保護生態環境必須依靠制度、依靠法治。只有實行最嚴格的制度、最嚴密的法治，才能為生態文明建設提供可靠保障。他要求，完善經濟社會發展考核評價體系，把資源消耗、環境損害、生態效益等體現生態文明建設狀況的指標納入經濟社會發展評價體系，建立體現生態文明要求的目標體系、考核辦法、獎懲機制，使之成為推進生態文明建設的重要導向和約束。
2016年12月，中共中央辦公廳、國務院辦公廳印發《生態文明建設目標評價考核辦法》。根據這一《辦法》，國家發展改革委等4部門聯合制定了年度評價的《綠色發展指標體系》和五年考核的《生態文明建設考核目標體系》，為規范生態文明建設評價考核工作提供原則和依據。
構建生態文明建設評價指標體系并進行評價考核，既要看產出增加，又要看消耗降低；既要看經濟效益，又要看環境效益；既要看發展速度，又要看發展質量，以起到對地方政府和領導干部的指揮棒作用，從而激發各級政府部門、廣大干部的積極性、主動性和創造性，形成推進生態文明建設的強大動力。
