At the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the forest coverage rate was only 8.6%. By the end of 2020, China’s forest coverage rate should reach 23.04%, its forest stock should reach 17.5 billion cubic meters, and its forest area should reach 220 million hectares.
“More trees, greener mountains and greener land have enhanced the ecological well-being of the people.” Zhang Jianguo, director of the Institute of Forestry under the Chinese Academy of Forestry, said China contributed a quarter of the global green growth from 2000 to 2017, slowing the sharp decline of global forest resources to a certain extent and contributing Chinese solutions and wisdom to global ecological and environmental governance.
On the other hand, China’s forest coverage rate is still lower than the global average of 32%, and the per capita forest area is only 1/4 of the world’s per capita level. ”On the whole, China is still a country lacking forests and green, ecological fragile country, continue to promote land greening, improve the ecological environment, a long way to go.” Zhang Jianguo said.
“To help achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, afforestation should play a more important role.” Lu Zhikui, deputy dean of the School of Public Affairs, Xiamen University, said that forest ecosystems have a strong role in carbon sequestration, so we should continue to expand the area of forests, improve the quality of forests and increase the carbon sink of forest ecosystems.
“At present, afforestation in suitable and relatively suitable climate zones and areas has been basically completed, and the focus of afforestation will be transferred to the ‘three North’ and other difficult areas. ”The three North regions are mostly arid and semi-arid desert, alpine and saline areas, and it is difficult to afforestation and afforestation. We need to make greater efforts to strengthen scientific afforestation, pay equal attention to pipe making and improve the quality of afforestation, so as to achieve the planning target on time.”
Post time: Aug-06-2021