China's Forestry to Launch Overall Opening up Policy

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, November 20, 2001

China's Forestry to Launch Overall Opening up Policy

Forestry to Face Fierce Competitions

Sources from lately finished "Seminar on Forestry Opening up with the WTO Entry" say after entry into the WTO China's forestry is going to launch overall opening up policy so as to push its forestry significantly forward in the new era.

Addressing the seminar, Zhou Shenxian, director of Forestry Department, indicated that China's WTO entry will help relieve the pressure of short forest supplies, enhance the protection of natural forests and establish forest ecology in contributing to improved investment conditions and a restructuring of forestry production. However, being divested of the right to WTO protection, forestry will be challenged on management and operation systems. The forestry machinery, economic forest fruit and especially the capital and technology intensive man-made board and paper industry will soon face fierce international competitions.

Forestry to Launch Overall Opening up Policcy

Zhou said, according to the requirements of "National Afforestation Outline", the forest coverage is supposed up to 26% by 2050. It's a common practice to take 100 years to fulfill such a task. To shorten 100 years to 50 years, it must implement overall opening up policy.

Information reads China's forestry has established working ties and cooperation with about one third of countries and areas by the end of last year, signing cooperative contracts with 22 countries' counterparts. It has signed 8 governmental agreements with 6 nations on behalf of the Chinese government and made use of US$2.56 billion foreign capital with a total worth of US$18.249 billion of imports and exports of forest products.

A Window for the World to Appreciate China's Forestry

The Chinese Government attaches great importance to the development of forestry and has taken a series of important legislative, policy and economic measures. March 12 was designated as the planting day in China in 1979; a national compulsory tree planting campaign was initiated in 1981; the Forest Law and the Law for Protection of Wild Animals were promulgated respectively in 1984 and 1988.

The principle of public participation in forestry and greening activities is adopted in China to encourage prople to plant trees and advance the national afforestation drive through the methods of afforestation, closing hills for natural regeneration and aerial seeding. Every year, the planting area in China is five million ha.; some 3.6 million ha. Of mountains are closed for natural regeneration; and more than two billion trees are planted through the compulsory tree- planting campaign. Barren mountains suitable for afforestation have been initially eliminated in China's Guangdong Fujian, Hunan, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong provinces and Guangxi Hui Autonomous Region.

sources from: http://www.forestry.ac.cn/zglyjs/1y.htm

by PD Online Staff Yang Ruoqian

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