© Provided by Xinhua HOHHOT, June 17 (Xinhua) Bao Xiulan and her husband cannot remember how many trees they have planted over the past 30 years. Ne
HOHHOT, June 17 (Xinhua) Bao Xiulan and her husband cannot remember how many trees they have planted over the past 30 years. New trees have very often been b
Carrying saplings in straw hat is just one sign of Chaoketu’s year-round afforestation efforts as the director of the forestry workstation in Horqin Left Wing Rear Banner in Tongliao, North China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There are many considerations that Chaoketu has to make including the transplantation of the appropriate species of tree for the right kind of land in the ecological conservation plan for the banner, but his dream remains only one: To transform his hometown from a desert to an oasis.
The dream of this Mongolian forestry worker also resonates with the dreams of hundreds of millions of people in China.
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Ecological poverty-relief programmes in China help increase income for rural residents
Gu Zhongyang, Yu Jingxian
For nearly 10 years, forestry and grassland bureaus at various levels in China have actively practised the philosophy of âlucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assetsâ, and vigorously advanced the countryâs poverty alleviation campaign through ecological compensation, afforestation, and the development of ecological industry.
These bureaus have completed all the tasks and targets set in the countryâs programmes designed to promote poverty reduction through ecological conservation and restoration, lifting over 20 million poor people out of poverty.
Li Yuhua, a forest ranger in Gongshan Derung and Nu autonomous county, southwest China s Yunnan province, is often seen walking through the mountain forest beside the Derung River in local ethnic clothes.