Home>>Life
Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, March 13, 2002

China's Bulletin of Territorial Afforestation Publicized

March 12, 2002, the Chinese Arbor Day saw the State Forestry Bureau of China publicized China's Bulletin of Territorial Afforestation. The bulletin praised highly the achievements made in ecological construction in China.


PRINT DISCUSSION CHINESE SEND TO FRIEND


Praised Achievements

March 12, 2002, the Chinese Arbor Day saw the State Forestry Bureau of China publicized China's Bulletin of Territorial Afforestation. The bulletin praised highly the achievements made in ecological construction in China.

According to the bulletin, China has successively launched six large green projects including protecting natural forest, returning farmland to forest, protecting wild animals and plants and the like. In 2001, China completed the project for natural forestry protection, afforestation and protection, covering an area of 1.9109 million hectares, and the experimental project of returning farmland to forest expanded to 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions with the forestation area coming to 885,000 hectares. Of those, some 398,900 hectares were forest areas returned from farmland.

The bulletin also emphasizes on deepen the nation's voluntary tree-planting activity. In 2001, China saw a voluntary planting of 2,469 million trees and opened 17600 bases for voluntary planting. Statistics showed that at present, China has brought the green coverage rate and greenbelt rate to 28.15 percent and 23.67 percent respectively, with the per-capita public green area rising to 6.83 square meters.

Desertification & Sandification Worse off

However, the desertification and land tending to be sandy are worse off in China, with an annual increase of desert and sandy area coming to a respective 10,400 square kilometers and 3,436 square kilometers. In addition, the bulletin calls for enhancing the ecological consciousness of the whole society.



China Outlines Six Key Ecological Projects

China has decided to focus its ecological construction attention on six super-large projects involving afforestation, wildlife and nature reserves in the coming 15 years, an official said on Tuesday.

China Ranks First in Afforestation Preservation

China has preserved 46.7 million hectares of afforestation, ranking first in the world, Director of the State Forestry Administration Zhou Shengxian said Tuesday in Beijing.


By PD Online staff member Huang Ying

Questions?Comments? Click here
    Advanced

Afforestation in North China Helps Harness Desertification and Soil Erosion

China Ranks First in Afforestation Preservation

China Outlines Six Key Ecological Projects





>> Full Coverage

 

Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved