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China, Germany Cooperate to Build Shelter Forest Along Yangtze
An afforestation project, funded by the German Government, is progressing smoothly in areas along the upper reaches of the Yangtze, China's longest river.
To date, nearly 10,000 hectares of trees have been planted along the Chongqing section of the Yangtze, according to Zhang Jing, director of the Chongqing Municipal Forestry Bureau.
The German Government has, starting from 1991, funded two Chinese cities every year to help eliminate poverty and improve the environment.
The Chongqing afforestation project, launched in 1999, is aimed at planting 30,000 hectares of trees by 2007 when it will be completed. The German side provided 12 million Deutsche marks (54 million yuan) of the total of 88.9 million yuan invested in the massive project.
The Yangtze River valley has become one of the regions in China which suffer serious soil erosion due to long-term damage to the local eco-system. In the summer of 1998, a serious flood hit the river valley, causing huge losses of property and human life. For this purpose, the Chinese government launched the massive project to protect the ecology along the Yangtze.
Departments concerned in Chongqing have worked out strict measures to guarantee the quality of the project.
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