Target set to boost forest coverage rate
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CHINA aims to increase its forest coverage to 23.04 percent by 2020 from the current 21.66 percent, Han Changfu, agricultural minister, said yesterday.
Han made the remarks when briefing lawmakers on scientific and technological innovation in the agricultural and forestry sector during a weeklong session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee that ends tomorrow.
An increase of 1.38 percentage points in the forest coverage rate would mean a rise of more than 1.3 billion cubic meters in the volume of growing stock.
China’s forest coverage stood at 20.36 percent, or 195 million hectares, at the end of 2008. Forest cover rose 30 million hectares during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).
Yet China’s forest cover rate is still about 10 percentage points lower than the world’s average.
In his report, Han said China would work to promote afforestation and improve the quality of its forests.
Advances in science and technology contributed to 56 and 48 percent of agricultural and forestry production last year.
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