China plans to plant 33.3 million hectares of forests and grasslands in the next five years - 6.6 million hectares per year - to help achieve its carbon emission reduction goals, according to the country's forestry authorities. The task includes planting 3.6 million hectares of trees and 3 million hectares of grass each year, said Zhang Wei, head of the ecological protection and restoration department of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
國(guó)家林草局生態(tài)保護(hù)修復(fù)司司長(zhǎng)張煒近日表示,為完成國(guó)家碳減排目標(biāo),"十四五"期間,我國(guó)規(guī)劃完成3330萬公頃國(guó)土綠化任務(wù),每年660萬公頃,其中造林綠化360萬公頃、種草改良300萬公頃。
China aims to increase its forest coverage rate to 24.1 percent and its grassland vegetation coverage to 57 percent by 2025, as outlined in the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) on the protection and development of forests and grasslands.
根據(jù)"十四五"林業(yè)草原保護(hù)發(fā)展規(guī)劃綱要,到2025年,我國(guó)森林覆蓋率將提升到24.1%,草原綜合植被蓋度將達(dá)到57%。
The country has created the world's largest planted forests, raising its forest cover from 12 percent in the early 1980s to 23.04 percent in 2020, with its forest stock volume hitting 17.56 billion cubic meters.
目前我國(guó)人工林面積居全球第一,森林覆蓋率已由20世紀(jì)80年代初的12%提高到2020年的23.04%,森林蓄積量達(dá)到175.6億立方米。