循环经济是一种以资源的高效利用和循环利用为核心,以“减量化、再利用、资源化”为原则,以低消耗、低排放、高效率为基本特征,符合可持续发展理念的经济增长模式,是对“大量生产、大量消费、大量废弃”的传统增长模式的根本变革。当前,鄂州市正处在经济结构调整和加快发展的关键时期,大力发展循环经济,走科技型、节约型发展之路,对于加快鄂州市富裕型小康城市建设进程具有重要的战略意义。一、发展循环经济的重要性和紧迫性 Circular economy is a kind of resource-efficient use and recycling as the core, “reduction, reuse, resource ” as the principle, with low consumption, low emissions, high efficiency as the basic characteristics in line with sustainable development The concept of economic growth mode is a fundamental change to the traditional growth model of “mass production, mass consumption and massive abandonment.” Currently, Ezhou is in a critical period of economic restructuring and speeding up of development. It is of strategic importance to speed up the process of building a wealthy and prosperous city in Ezhou with vigorously developing a recycling economy and adopting a scientific and economical development path. First, the importance and urgency of developing circular economy