Abstract
On July 21,2024,the Symposium on the Fundamental and Defining Concepts of Socialist Ecological Civilization as well as the 2024 Academic Annual Conference of the"Chinese Research Group of Socialist Eco-civilization"was held in Hohhot,Inner Mongolia,for the purpose of promoting the research on the fundamental and defining concepts of Marxist ecology and Socialist ecological civilization theory and push-ing the construction of independent knowledge system of China's environmental humanities and social sci-ences.Co-sponsored by the School of Marxism at Peking University,the Research Centre of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization at Peking University,the School of Marxism at Inner Mongolia Uni-versity of Technology,and the School of Philosophy at Inner Mongolia University,this academic event at-tracted over 100 representatives from more than 50 universities and research institutions across the country.The participants conducted academic exchanges on five topics:"methodology for the study of fundamental and defining concepts of socialist ecological civilization","basic conceptual categories of Marxist ecological philosophy","fundamental and defining concepts of socialist ecological civilization","core concepts of green left-wing theory and their relevance",and"construction of an independent conceptual system for socialist ecological civilization theory".Jointly founded in June 2015 by the School of Marxism of Peking Univer-sity and the Beijing Representative Office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation,the Chinese Research Group of Socialist Eco-civilization(CRGSE)is a national academic community that independently con-ducts research on issues related to the theory and practice of socialist ecological civilization.Since its estab-lishment,the research group has held an annual academic meeting to lead and promote the theoretical re-search of socialist ecological civilization,and 2024 marks its tenth annual conference.