Government policy leads to increase in forest area
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June 5, 2012, Tuesday
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CHINA'S total forest area has risen to 195 million hectares from 134 million in 1992, a net gain of 60 million hectares in 20 years, the State Forestry Administration said yesterday.
Despite a decreasing global forest reserve, China's forest inventory expanded by 3.6 billion cubic meters to reach 13.7 billion cubic meters during the past 20 years, SFA Vice Minister Yin Hong said at a press conference.
China has strengthened its fiscal support for increasing forest area, launched a number of national ecological projects and implemented a nationwide compulsory tree-planting program to expand forests since the signing of the first global environmental treaty at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, Yin said.
The country currently has 61.68 million hectares of man-made forest, the most in the world, and 7.81 billion tons of forest-carbon stock.
Its desertification area is dropping by 1,717 square kilometers annually, compared to an annual expansion of 3,436 square kilometers at the end of the 1990s, Yin said.
Yin said the government would continue to increase investment in the sector, focusing its energy on forest cultivation, wetland, wildlife and habitat protection, and land desertification control.
China aims to expand its total forest area by 40 million hectares, and its total forest inventory by 1.3 billion cubic meters by 2020.
The country is also to convert 106 hectares of farmland to forest by 2015.
Despite a decreasing global forest reserve, China's forest inventory expanded by 3.6 billion cubic meters to reach 13.7 billion cubic meters during the past 20 years, SFA Vice Minister Yin Hong said at a press conference.
China has strengthened its fiscal support for increasing forest area, launched a number of national ecological projects and implemented a nationwide compulsory tree-planting program to expand forests since the signing of the first global environmental treaty at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, Yin said.
The country currently has 61.68 million hectares of man-made forest, the most in the world, and 7.81 billion tons of forest-carbon stock.
Its desertification area is dropping by 1,717 square kilometers annually, compared to an annual expansion of 3,436 square kilometers at the end of the 1990s, Yin said.
Yin said the government would continue to increase investment in the sector, focusing its energy on forest cultivation, wetland, wildlife and habitat protection, and land desertification control.
China aims to expand its total forest area by 40 million hectares, and its total forest inventory by 1.3 billion cubic meters by 2020.
The country is also to convert 106 hectares of farmland to forest by 2015.
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