Economic policies should be used to solve environmental issues, said a signed article in Southern Metropolis Daily. The following is an excerpt:

Environmental economic policies are measures to adjust and affect market behaviors through tools such as price, taxation, credit, fees and insurance aimed at realizing the coordinated development of the economic construction and environmental protection.

Compared with traditional administrative measures that produce external restrictions, environmental economic policies are a kind of internal restriction power. They are the most effective long-term method of solving environmental problems. China, which faces a serious environmental situation, has a pressing need to implement environmental economic policies.