China’s Grain for Green Program A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World
China has always had a problem of inadequate supply, low quality, and uneven geographic distribution of forest resources. However, the second half of the twenti eth century saw the greatest deforestation in the country’s history, as the rapid increase in the nation’s population, coupled with rapi...
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2015
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| Tóm tắt: | China has always had a problem of inadequate supply, low quality, and uneven
geographic distribution of forest resources. However, the second half of the twenti
eth century saw the greatest deforestation in the country’s history, as the rapid
increase in the nation’s population, coupled with rapid economic development,
resulted in enormous consumption of forest resources. Forest coverage decreased
from 30–40 % in 1949 to about 10 % in the late 1990s. By the end of the twentieth
century, while China’s population accounted for 22 % of the world’s population, the
forest area in China was only taking up 4.1 % of the world’s land mass, and the
stocking volume was merely 2.9 % of the world’s total (Lei 2002). This was clearly
not sufficient to meet the production and livelihood needs of the country. However,
even more pressing were the environmental problems that decades of deforestation
had created... |
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