Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 14 (Reporter Hu Lu) Since my country launched the pilot program in 2015, 10 national park system pilot areas including the Northeast Tiger and Leopard and Sanjiangyuan have progressed smoothly. The State Forestry and Grassland Administration has started the evaluation and acceptance work, and will put forward a list of recommendations for the formal establishment of national parks by the end of the year.
This is what the reporter learned from the National Forestry and Grass Administration on the 14th. The relevant person in charge of the National Forestry and Grass Administration said that the establishment of a national park system is an important part of the construction of my country's ecological civilization system. At present, China is carrying out the pilot system of 10 national parks including Siberian tigers and leopards, Qilian Mountains, giant pandas, Sanjiangyuan, Hainan tropical rainforest, Wuyishan, Shennongjia, Pudacuo, Qianjiangyuan, and Nanshan. The pilot areas involve 12 provinces with a total area. More than 220,000 square kilometers, accounting for about 2.3% of China's land area.
"Through several years of hard work, the national park system pilot has achieved phased results." The person in charge said that each pilot area has established a management agency to prepare and implement overall plans, and basically complete the delimitation of natural resource ownership boundaries and confirmation of rights registration. jobs.
He said that the 10 pilot areas put ecological protection in the first place, integrating various types of nature reserves at all levels, implementing unified management, overall protection, and system restoration, which have achieved remarkable results. The Wuyi Mountain pilot area completed ecological restoration of 6,500 mu, renovated 7,300 mu of illegal tea mountains, and demolished 39 illegal constructions. The giant panda pilot area implemented ecological restoration and habitat restoration projects, built a giant panda reintroduction base, and restored the giant panda’s habitat. 40,000 mu; the mining rights and hydropower development enterprises in the three rivers source and Pudacuo pilot areas have all withdrawn.
While fully protecting the authenticity and integrity of the natural ecosystem, each pilot area actively explores an effective way to realize that green water and green mountains are the golden mountains and silver mountains, and establishes a coordinated community development and ecological compensation system to realize ecological protection and benefits for the people. The pilot area of Sanjiangyuan innovatively set up "one household, one post" ecological management and protection public welfare posts, 17,211 herders were transformed into management and protection staff, and the average annual income of each household increased by 21,600 yuan.
"In the next step, China will fully complete the pilot tasks, clarify the standards and spatial layout of national parks, improve management systems and mechanisms, advance national park legislation, and formally build a number of national parks with global value, national symbols, and high national recognition, and accelerate Establish a natural reserve system with national parks as the main body." The person in charge said.