Hunan Makes a Leap from a Forest Province to a Green Province

2018-11-14
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On November 12th, the Hunan Government Information Office held its tenth press conference in Changsha for the celebration of Hunan¡¯s 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. Director of the Forestry Department of Hunan Province Hu Changqing announced that Hunan had made a great leap from a forest province to a green province and now embarked on its new journey towards an ecologically strong province.

In the past four decades, Hunan¡¯s forestland area has risen from 109 million mu to 195 million mu; its rate of forest coverage from 38.92% to 59.68%; and its living wood growing stock from 189 million cubic meters to 548 million cubic meters, an increase of 189.5%. The wetland area of the whole province reaches 15.3 million mu (except of rice fields), with its protection rate up to 75.44%, ranking first throughout the country. The grassland area amounts to 15 million mu (including more than 10-thousand-mu concentrated and contiguous grassland). The total value of output in forestry industry has increased from 540 million CNY to 425.6 billion CNY.

At present, the numbers of Hunan¡¯s national forest and wetland parks rank first across the country. Its rate of forest coverage and living wood growing stock respectively rank sixth and ninth nationwide. Hunan forestry deserves to be called the central backbone in preserving the national ecological security.

Source: enghunan.gov.cn