摘要
经过20多年的快速经济增长，中国水、土地、能源、矿产等资源不足的矛盾越来越突出，生态建设和环境保护的形势相当严峻，资源和环境已经成为制约中国可持续发展的一个主要瓶颈。从中国经济社会发展的长期前景来看，加快转变经济增长方式，大力推进循环经济发展，既是缓解中国资源约束矛盾并从根本上减轻环境压力的根本出路，也是提高国民经济整体效益的有效途径。由於发展循环经济是对传统经济发展模式、环境治理方式的重大变革，需要权威的法律手段作为支撑、保障和引导。因此，通过立法推进和保障循环经济的发展就成为中国发展循环经济的内生要求。
After rapid economic growth over the past more than 20 years, the .shortage of water, land, energy,mineral and other resources in China has become increasingly acute while the situation of ecological construction and environmental protection has turned rather harsh. The scarcity of resources and the degeneration of environment have become major bottleneck problems holding back sustainable development in China. As far as the long-term prospect for socioeconomic development in China is concerned, acceleration of conversion of the way of economic growth and intensification of efforts to promote the development of a circular economy in China are not only a feasible way of easing the shortage of resources and fundamentally alleviating the pressure on the environment, but are also an effective approach to raise the efficiency of the national economy in an all-round way. As the development of a circular economy means a major transformation of the traditional economic development model and the traditional way of environment management, authoritative legal means are needed to support, guarantee and lead it. Therefore, to promote and guarantee the development of a circular economy through legislation has become an inherent requirement for the development of circular economy in China.
