The state encourages social capital to invest in ecological environment restoration in the Yangtze River Basin in accordance with the principles of policy support, business and social participation, and market-oriented operations.

The Yangtze River Protection Law has a special chapter that clearly stipulates the ecological protection and restoration system of the Yangtze River Basin, and establishes the national governance principle of focusing on natural restoration and combining natural restoration with artificial restoration of the Yangtze River Basin ecosystem.

Support and encourage social capital to participate in the ecological environment protection and restoration of the Yangtze River Basin.

The Yangtze River Protection Law also clearly stipulates this, requiring the natural resources authorities to work with finance, ecological and environmental protection and other departments to formulate a system to encourage social funds to invest in ecological and environmental protection.

To encourage social investment, we need to find the profit point, that is, how to make money through ecological protection and restoration, so that social funds can be well directed to carry out ecological restoration.

In terms of ecological protection and restoration, the Ministry of Natural Resources will also focus on research on major issues in ecological protection and restoration in the Yangtze River Basin. Including the investigation of the natural environment background and changes in the Yangtze River Basin, the study of water balance in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, etc. Through the research on these major issues, we mainly want to find out the true nature and laws of nature in ecological protection and restoration.

Legal basis:

"Yangtze River Protection Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 63

Yangtze River Basin Local people's governments at or above the county level in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River should support the implementation of ecological environment restoration and other protection measures in the source and upstream areas of the Yangtze River Basin in terms of projects, funds, talents, management, etc. according to local conditions, and improve the implementation of ecological environment protection measures in the ecologically fragile areas of the Yangtze River Basin. Ability to repair and other protective measures.

The state encourages social capital to invest in ecological environment restoration in the Yangtze River Basin in accordance with the principles of policy support, business and social participation, and market-oriented operations.