After hundreds of years of technological revolution and rapid economic advancement, humanity has reached a moment of crisis in its relationship with nature. Many of the approaches endorsed such as sustainable development (SD), the planetary boundaries (PB), ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) have different strengths, but they cannot really address the complexity and multifaceted aspects of human development and human-nature relationship. When the time comes to 2022, while we have got a list of sustainable things to do, we are further plagued with human conflict, unresolved pandemics, climate change, poverty, and inequality. With China’s rapid economic growth, poverty alleviation, and mounting environmental issues for decades, China started to propose the concept of Ecological Civilization (EC) which insinuates an imperative shift of way of thinking. The concept acts as a coherent and holistic conceptual framework for adjustments to development the country that meets 21st century challenges. It is increasingly realized that EC, underpinned by the traditional Chinese philosophy - harmony between man and nature, differs from many other sustainable development concepts in the emphasis placed on political and cultural factors, as well as on defining new relationships between people and nature that would permit living well, and within the environmental bounds of planet Earth. EC thinking should not be confined to the territorial state of China, but a gift to humanity. This podcast profiles and documents the language and characteristics of China’s ecological civilization and its implication to all aspects of the harmonious human-human and human-nature relationship. read less