20世纪60年代以来，面对环境污染、生态破坏、生存危机的严重威胁，西方国家在生态保护法律体系、环境经济政策、循环低碳绿色经济模式、生态保护意识培养、产业结构升级等方面开展了长期持久的工作，取得了显著成效。我国从20世纪中后期开始注重生态环境的建设与保护，到中国共产党第十八次全国代表大会将生态文明建设纳入中国特色社会主义建设“五位一体”的总体布局，生态文明已经从学术层面的探讨上升到政府的施政纲领和国家理念。在进一步推动我国生态文明进程中，我们应该做到以下几点：汲取古代生态思想精华；全面推进体制机制深化改革；

Since the 1960s, facing to a serious threat of environmental pollution, ecological destruction, survival crisis, the Western countries has carried out a long-lasting work, such as the legal system establishment for ecological protection, environmental and economic policy setting up, the low-carbon green circular economy mode founding, ecological protection awareness training and industrial structure upgrading, etc., which have achieved remarkable progress. Since the middle and late 20th century, China has focused on the construction and protection of ecological environment. In the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, ecological civilization construction has been brought into the “Five in One” overall plan of socialist construction with Chinese characteristics. Since then, the ecological civilization has risen from the academic level to the government’s policy agenda and national philosophy. In further promoting of ecological civilization construction, the following points should be important, which are to learn the ideological essence from ancient ecology, to comprehensively promote the institutional mechanism reform, to strengthen enforcement of the ecological and environmental protection law, to actively found the complex capital for ecological civilization construction, to vigorously promote industrial structure adjustment and upgrading, and to attach great importance to the people’s ecological civilization quality education.