Qingdao to plant or renew 394,000 acres of
forests next 3 years
Opinions on Carrying Out “Green Everywhere
in Qingdao” Land Greening Movement Activity, an important strategic action in
boosting the construction of beautiful Qingdao, was issued by the Qingdao
Municipal Government during the Chinese New Year period. Aiming to call up
social forces to plant trees to increase forest resource, increase forest
quality and ensure eco security, the Opinions will help to plant trees, renew
forest, or upgrade low efficient forest as many as 394,000 acres by 2020.
According to the Opinions, the overall goal
of the action is to boost land greening, increase forest quality, conduct
forest city construction, build forest park, and establish forest eco security
system with reasonable layout, excellent structure, full function and supreme
benefits. During the construction period, the city will advance greening and
beautifying of the mountainous areas, plains, water system, roads, rural and
urban areas as a whole, and take greening of suitable barren hills, wasteland
and desolate sands.
Implementing 7 Major Tasks is the key
assignment of the action, which are building green eco protective screen in
Northern Qingdao, retreating farmland for fruit-bearing forest or forest,
implementing eco recovery and protection project, implementing farmland
protective forest construction project, building forest eco corridor,
implementing forest quality increase project and greening & beautifying
project in urban and rural areas. (Qian Zhuo)