在多个省区长期担任省级领导职务的白恩培从青海调任云南省委书记以来,在多个场合一直强调,对云南来说,保护生态就是发展现实生产力。在北京出席九届全国人大五次会议期间,白恩培书记在全面阐述云南经济发展新思路时说,云南经济社会的发展,一定要突出重点抓生态建设,围绕生态建设进行经济结构调整,发展特色经济。 On a number of occasions, since Bai Enpei, who had been holding provincial leadership positions in various provinces and long-term provincial governors from Qinghai, has been emphasizing that for Yunnan, the protection of ecology is to develop real productive forces. While attending the Fifth Session of the Ninth National People’s Congress in Beijing, Secretary-General Bai Enpei fully expounded on the new thinking of Yunnan’s economic development. He said that the economic and social development in Yunnan must focus on ecological construction, economic restructuring around the ecological construction and the development of a distinctive economy .