China News Service, December 17th. At a press conference held by the State Information Office on the 17th, Liu Dongsheng, deputy director of the National Forestry and Grass Administration, said that in terms of land greening, the "13th Five-Year" greening goal has been fully completed.
Over the past five years, 689 million mu of land has been greened, of which 529 million acres have been afforested, 638 million acres of forest tending have been completed, 1.2 billion acres of grassland banned grazing have been implemented, and an area of 2.6 billion acres of grass and livestock balance has been completed as scheduled. And forest stock volume are two binding indicators.
Data map: A high-standard afforestation land in Moheliang, Galou Village, Xunrang Township, Datong County, Qinghai Province.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Luo Yunpeng
The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 17th. Wang Hong, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Director of the State Oceanic Administration, Liu Dongsheng, Deputy Director of the State Forestry and Grass Administration, and relevant officials from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance were invited to introduce the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session The situation of ecological protection and restoration work, and answered reporters' questions.
Liu Dongsheng introduced the above achievements when answering questions from reporters.
He pointed out that compared with the past, there are two prominent bright spots in land greening during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
First, the greening of the country has achieved closer integration with major national development strategies.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the country has many major strategies.
The planning and layout of the whole country's greening work revolves around strategy, reflecting some bright spots.
For example, focusing on poverty alleviation, since 2018, more than two-thirds of the country's afforestation and greening tasks have been allocated to poverty-stricken areas, and priority is given to the filed and registered poor people to participate in afforestation and greening to obtain labor income.
In the past five years, the National Forestry and Grass Administration, together with the Ministry of Finance and the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation Office, has recruited 1.1 million ecological forest rangers in poverty-stricken areas, allocated 20.5 billion yuan from the central government, and combined with other assistance measures to accurately drive more than 3 million people. Alleviate poverty and increase income.
Second, the combination of expanding the surface and increasing greenness and improving quality and efficiency.
In the past, land greening, focusing on expanding the area and increasing the amount of greenery, may be the focus of work.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the precise improvement of forest quality and the improvement of quality and efficiency have been brought to a higher position, combined with the promotion of large-scale land greening, and new breakthroughs have been achieved in both the extension and the extension.
For example, we promote large-scale land greening, planting more than 100 million acres of forest every year, and at the same time strengthen grassland protection and restoration, and implement precision improvement projects for forest and grass quality. The annual forest tending is also more than 120 million acres. This is a combination of quantity and quality.
In addition, some traditional mechanisms and practices of land greening in the past have been further carried forward, such as large-scale projects driving great development, the combination of land greening and resource protection, and the large-scale promotion of comprehensive voluntary tree planting. These are some of the traditional national land greening. Practice, the "13th Five-Year Plan" period has also achieved good results.
Regarding the key issues of my country’s ecological protection during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, Liu Dongsheng said that the “14th Five-Year” plan is being made with many ideas and the main goals are basically set, and strive to achieve a national forest coverage rate of 24.1% and forest reserves by 2025. To reach 19 billion cubic meters, which is an increase of 1.4 billion cubic meters on the existing basis.
The comprehensive vegetation coverage of grassland reached 57%, which is an increase of 1% on the existing basis.
The wetland protection rate reaches 55%, and 60% of the desertified land can be treated.