The rapid development of afforestation and afforestation of key ecological projects in China is developing rapidly

According to the latest statistics from the State Forestry Administration, natural forest resource protection projects have completed a total of 1,261,500 hectares of public welfare forests, effectively protecting 1.43 billion mu of forest, and a net increase of 8.157 million hectares of forest in the project area. According to calculations, more than 40% of the country’s growth in forest resources comes from the “Natural Forest Protection Project” in the same period.

The Beijing-Tianjin Sandstorm Source Control Project has completed a total of 11,237 mu of various governance tasks. The coverage of forest and grass vegetation in the project area has generally increased by 3 to 40%. The project will directly benefit 16.22 million farmers and herdsmen, 1.37 million people will get rid of poverty, and the per capita income of farmers will increase by nearly half in the past five years. China's land desertification has, on the whole, achieved a historic transformation from expansion to reduction, from an average annual expansion of 3,436 square kilometers to an annual reduction of 1,283 square kilometers.

The project of construction of fast-growing and high-yield timber bases in key regions has accumulated a total of 73.5 million mu of fast-growing and high-yield timber forests. Leading enterprises and rural households have become the mainstay of project construction. Pulp raw material forests, artificial board raw material forests, large diameter timber forests, and other industrial raw material forests have become the focus of afforestation. Through the acquisition, leasing, joint venture, joint venture, cooperation, contracting and other forms to create fast-growing high-yield timber forest, initially formed a new mechanism for afforestation with social investment as the mainstay and supplemented by national support.

The project of returning farmland to forests has completed the afforestation of 139 million acres of abandoned farmland, 205 million acres of afforestation in barren hills and wastelands, and 0.2 million acres of closed hills for forests. This is equivalent to recreating a state-owned forest zone in northeastern Inner Mongolia. The ecological environment in the project area has been significantly improved, soil erosion and wind-borne sand damage are being reduced, and biodiversity in some areas has been restored.

The national forestry system established 1,740 nature reserves, which accounted for 12.62% of the country's total land area. It also built more than 50,000 various types of protected communities, effectively protecting China's 90% of terrestrial ecosystem types, 45% of the natural wetlands, and 85% of the wild. Animal populations and 65% of higher plant communities.

With regard to the protection of wildlife resources, 42 wildlife conservation project construction projects have been implemented to promote the protection of endangered wildlife and form a stable artificial population. Over 400 wild plant germplasm resource conservation bases have been established to vigorously develop the artificial breeding of wild animal and plant resources, and to promote the shift from the use of wild resources to the breeding and utilization of artificial resources, and to stabilize thousands of species of wild animals and plants. Artificial population.

The person in charge also said that in the past five years, 38.475 million hectares of afforestation have been completed in the country. The proportion of afforestation of broad-leaved forests, mixed forests, and native tree species increased significantly, and the tree species and forest species structure were further adjusted and optimized. The situation of a single afforestation tree species changed. Non-public forestry such as large-scale afforestation, enterprise afforestation, family afforestation, and afforestation were rapidly developed, and the main afforestation entities were diversified. In addition, various regions actively explore new mechanisms for voluntary tree planting, enrich the organizational form of voluntary tree planting, organize various forms of voluntary tree planting activities, and widely implement green space adoption, conservation of ancient and famous trees, and creation of various memorial forests. (Reporter Dong Jun)