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The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, [1] and provide ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 183 In 2015 China announced a plan to plant 26 ... This large-scale reforestation contributed to China’s ...
China committed to plant and conserve 70 billion trees by the year 2030 as part of the Trillion Tree Campaign. [76] A special organization: "1t.org China Action" will assist to China with achieving its reforestation and forest conservation goals. [77] Conserving and planting mangroves is an important part of the environmental policy of China ...
Initiated in China in 1999 in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan, the compensatory afforestation scheme has so far resulted to the appreciation of forest coverage by 23%. Between 2012 and 2016, around 33.8 million hectares of artificial forest was planted with most of it being a part of compensatory afforestation endeavours in the country. [ 7 ]
Through urban rewilding, Beijing, China, is becoming one of the most biodiverse cities in the world, containing 2088 vascular plant species and 596 wild vertebrates. [11] China has continued to push rewilding projects into Beijing through wetland protection and the afforestation of a million acres. [11]
The Tenth five-year plan is a plan for China's national economic and social development for the 2001-2005 period. With economic development as its main goal, the plan establishes the strategic adjustment of the economic structure as its main line, while focusing on ecological construction, environmental protection, and sustainable economic and social development.
Environmental policy in China is set by the National People's Congress and managed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China.Under the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, the Department of Policies, Laws, and Regulations is in charge of establishing and strengthening basic laws and policies such as environmental laws ...
The Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests is an endangered ecoregion in southwestern China. These forests once covered the western parts of the Yungui Plateau but have been significantly reduced and replaced with agricultural land uses.