Ecological Civilization Construction is the Fundamental Way to Develop Low-carbon Economy

This article gives a brief account of the meaning, characteristics and origin of ecological civilization, an analysis of the positive impacts of ecological civilization construction on low-carbon economy, and proposes specific recommendations for constructing ecological civilization to develop low-carbon economy in China: compile “Planning Outline” and “Implementation Plan”, increase the publicity of education on ecological civilization concept, strengthen discussion on ecological civilization problems, establish government-enterprise cooperative platform, supporting systems of green technology and financial services to support ecological civilization construction, incorporate ecological civilization indicator into the performance evaluation of government departments, strengthen ecological civilization legislation. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of RIUDS