The emphasis of Socialist Ecological Civilization in the 18th congress of CPC
and the proposal of "Green Development" in the "Thirteen Five Year" Plan both
indicate that Ecological Civilization Construction has been raised to an
unprecedented height in China. Based on the theory of Social-Ecological
Transformation, this article elaborates if or to what extent China’s
Ecological Civilization Construction goes beyond the logic of capitalist
imperative, if environmental benefits still succumbs to the current political
and economic structures. It concludes that as the newest sustainable
discourse, Ecological Civilization has great influence on the formation and
enforcement of environmental policy in China. As a comprehensive and
systematic experiment concerning the change of mode of living and production,
divergent interpretations of Ecological Civilization Construction still exist
among officials in multi-level governance, which leads to different
preferences when implementing Ecological Civilization goals.The orientation of
growth in multilevel governments should be weakened and pioneer of change with
emancipatory horizon or ecological forms of production and living should be
encouraged
