China Ups Reforestation

Posted by david on Oct 15, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

China has plans to increase its forest coverage to 21.66 percent by 2015 in  an effort to improve the country’s ecological environment, an official said  Sunday.

Sun Zhagen, vice head of the State Forestry Administration, unveiled the plan  at a forum on sustainable forestry development, Xinhua reported.

Sun said the effort is to cope with global climate change. Some $7.22 billion  have been set aside to subsidize farmers whose farmland was reclaimed and turned  into forests.

China’s forest coverage reached 20.36 percent in 2009, up from 18.21 percent  in 2006, the SFA said. Some 20.54 million hectares of forests have been restored  so far in the country.

– UPI