国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

  Home>News Center>China
       
 

500,000 to be moved off "Beijing rim"
By Liang Chao (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-12 01:56

About 500,000 rural people will be pulled out from the ecologically vulnerable remote mountainous areas of Beijing and surrounding areas to help mitigate sandstorms resulting from human activity, officials say.

"Locals to be resettled will include those living in parts of Tianjin, neighbouring Hebei Province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region," the official said.

Resettlement efforts for the first batch of people from the massive exodus has almost come to an end under the programme known as the "Beijing-rim sandstorm prevention project" launched in the autumn of 2000, said Wang Zhibao, deputy director of the Office for the Development of the Western Regions under the State Council, at an interview on Thursday with the New Beijing News.

"With the help of the government, most of the resettled now have a much better living conditions," he said.

Wang, the former director of the State Forestry Administration (SFA), is confident that the project can help rehabilitate ecosystems in Beijing and its surrounding areas.

"The annual sandstorms recorded in North China, the worst-hit area, have tended to decrease year after year, from 13 in 2001 to only six last year," Zhou Shengxian, SFA's top official, told media yesterday in Beijing.

A breakthrough was made last year in the replanting of forests with up to 7.2 million hectares of new trees added, according to the 2004 annual report on China's afforestation efforts.

The National Afforestation Commission (NAC) released the report yesterday on the eve of this year's annual tree-planting day.

Over the past two decades, people from all walks of life have participated in tree-planting since China set March 12 as a National Tree Planting Day in 1979 and launched the voluntary campaign in the early 1980s.

Every spring, tree-planting has become a way of life for most of Chinese, with millions of citizens involved as volunteers to help make the country greener.

Last year, nearly 550 million people planted about 2.5 billion trees throughout China. The accumulated efforts of volunteers allowed the nation to see more than 44 billion trees planted during the 1982-2004 period, NAC statistics indicate.

To date, the area with human-planted trees across China exceeds 53 million hectares, ranking the nation the leader in the world.

(China Daily 03/12/2005 page3)



 
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

Tung Chee-hwa resigns as HK chief executive

 

   
 

Steps to narrow rich-poor gap needed

 

   
 

Money talks in capturing drug suspect

 

   
 

Li Ka-shing the richest Chinese - Forbes

 

   
 

Farming sets goals to raise productivity

 

   
 

US in shift to back EU on Iran incentives

 

   
  Farming sets goals to raise productivity
   
  First private airline starts maiden flight
   
  HK Chief Executive Tung offers to resign
   
  Stepping up exchanges across Straits
   
  Reform changes farmers' lives
   
  Migrant workers miss out on cultural experiences
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Advertisement
         
荆州市| 门头沟区| 丹江口市| 蒙山县| 雷波县| 汨罗市| 明溪县| 新沂市| 文安县| 镇巴县| 稻城县| 鄂州市| 香河县| 华池县| 娄底市| 公主岭市| 健康| 来宾市| 闸北区| 昂仁县| 滕州市| 务川| 义马市| 卓资县| 蓬安县| 溧水县| 谢通门县| 长顺县| 乐清市| 错那县| 枞阳县| 永寿县| 辽中县| 新乡县| 温宿县| 浦江县| 德阳市| 宝坻区| 乐安县| 理塘县| 油尖旺区|