China to restore felled forests

The Dominion, Wellington, New Zealand | May 15 2002 | Associated Press

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China has unveiled plans for a $US12 billion ten year effort to plant thousands of square kilometres of trees, hoping to repair decades of environmental damage and slow the spread of deserts threatening farmland.

It would be the biggest conservation effort ever attempted, forestry officials said yesterday.

The plans add to increasingly drastic Chinese efforts to reverse ecological damage blamed for droughts, deadly flooding and loss of farmland to erosion.

Tree planting will cover 440,000 kilometres in areas throughout China, the deputy administrator of the State Administration of Forestry, Lei Jiafu, said.

In some areas, farmers would be paid to turn crop land into forest, Mr Lei said. China has cut down most of its forests, both to create farmland and to supply timber for an economy that is growing in excess of 7% a year.

Official plans include creation of barriers to shield Beijing and other cities from sandstorms by planting trees on 26,000 kilometres of farmland. Beijing has already planted such barriers on a smaller scale, reducing the size of gritty dust storms that smother the Chinese capital each spring.

China banned logging in 1998 in large areas of the vast western province of Sichuan, where forests had been turned into fields of stumps.

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Quite an undertaking. Just as well labour is cheap.

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ping

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FYI

[A. Pole]

Quite an undertaking. Just as well labour is cheap.

It will provide badly needed jobs in the less developed areas. Very smart move!

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FYI

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,,, agreed. The extent of forestry the Chinese have bought into here in New Zealand is notable.

[Exit148]

I'm glad to hear this. China has been involved in tree planting for some time now, but not in a project as large as this. Deforestation has gone on for hundreds of years, and the impact has been deadly.

One city - Nanjing - known as one of the "4 furnaces" has had a tree-planting campaign for some time now, and the result has been the lowering of the summer temperature by quite a bit!

Sycamores (Plane Trees) are everywhere in China, and they are cut so that they are low and spreading. They cover the streets like a tunnel, providing shade.

The plan for reforestation covers, of course, reasons beyond shade and temperature, and I'm glad they are going to be more purposeful.

I've never seen a 'shaggy eel'.

[Willie Green]

Tree planting will be good for China.
Hope they plant more bamboo also, to help the pandas.

[TheHound]

Tree planting will cover 440,000 kilometres in areas throughout China, the deputy administrator of the State Administration of Forestry, Lei Jiafu, said.

I wonder how much area that is? If that is 440,000 square Kilometers, that is a hugh area. At least now it is a ten year plan and not a five year one. You can see how much more reasonable communism has gotten.

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I've never seen a 'shaggy eel'.

,,, that ain't really me on my homepage!

[shaggy eel]

,,, I've only been to China once. I was shocked when I saw the amount of erosion on the hills. It seems they've woken up to this problem at last.

[JerseyHighlander]

440,000 square kilometers is approx. the size of California, or more than the entire province of Anhui.

[forester]

The extent of forestry the Chinese have bought into here in New Zealand is notable.

Thanks for the ping. As I recall, several large U.S. Corporations have also invested heavily in New Zealand.

[IGNATIUS]

--let's reforest California----

I haven't driven their Northern coast for 14 years but was saddened then at all the redwood clear cutting.There was much secondary broadleaf growth but the great rw groves appeared to be gone except for a few govt.reserves.Oh,but they make such marvelous decks and fences.

[vannrox]

Yet another CIA "Remote Viewing" event that came true. I suggest you read The Ultimate Time Machine by Joseph McMoneagle. ISBN 1-57174-102-X.


The book while written in 1998, explained the use of "Remote Viewers" to predict the future. This was an ongoing effort by the CIA until it was disbanded. The work was continued privately and culminated and catagorized in the book. Some exerpts...

"... We can expect to see a long slide in the stock market (Wall Street) beginning within the next three to six years. Probably actually starting around September 2001..."


"...There is a war brewing. Within five years, 1998 to 2003, there will be a second war in northern Iraq. Iw will probably be much bigger than the one in which Iraq was soundly defeated in 1991 by a coalition effort in what is now known as the Persian Gulf War..."


"...between 1998 and 2003 the United States will be faced with probably the single greatest threat humanity has ever known, the possibily that one of its enemies will attempt to use a biological weapon inside the united states. Most likely anthrax..."