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New round of returning farmland to forest and grassland launched with central government financial support
According to the "Overall Plan for the New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest and Grassland" (hereinafter referred to as the "Overall Plan") approved by the State Council, recently the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, together with the State Forestry Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant departments, issued the 2014 annual task of returning farmland to forest and grassland of 5 million mu to ten provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Shanxi and Hubei, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Of this, 4.83 million mu was for returning farmland to forest and 170,000 mu was for returning farmland to grassland.
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Carbon sink trading gives farmers their first monetary returns from forest management ecological services
On the morning of the 14th, the Zhejiang Provincial Branch of China Construction Bank purchased in Lin'an the first batch of carbon sink emission reductions generated by the forest management of 42 local farmers. This is the first order of farmer forest management carbon sink trading, and also the first time farmers have obtained monetary returns from forest ecological services since the forest tenure reform
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Should farmers pay the afforestation fund?
Agriculture Law of the People's Republic of China - The Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending the Agriculture Law of the People's Republic of China was adopted at the 30th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China in December 2012
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Yew Branch Established in Beijing, Under the China Economic Forestry Association
On November 20, the founding conference of the Yew Branch of the China Economic Forestry Association and the Yew Industry Development Symposium were held in Beijing. The first president, Zhang Jiayue, chairman of Shanxi Hongshan Group, one of the association's initiating organizations, delivered a report on the development of China's yew industry. Currently, our
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China's specialty economic forest area will exceed 40 million hectares in 2020
The State Forestry Administration recently issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Specialty Economic Forest Industry," proposing that by 2020, the newly added planting area of specialty economic forests reach 8.1 million hectares, and the total area of economic forests increase by 24% compared with 2010, reaching 41 million hectares. The Opinions make clear that full
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All 1.8 billion mu of China's natural forests will be brought under protection
Reporters learned from the national forestry directors' meeting held on the 5th that China will further expand the scope of natural forest protection and strive to bring all 1.8 billion mu of the country's natural forests under protection. Starting this year, China will expand the scope of the ban on commercial logging of natural forests step by step,
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Forest tenure reform may take a substantive step forward in the No. 1 Central Document
One of the contents most likely to be focused on in the 2015 No. 1 Central Document is the advancement of reform of the rural collective property rights system. As an important part of this, forestry reform is about to take a substantive step forward. An Economic Information Daily reporter recently learned from authoritative sources
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The problem of land consolidation destroying forest land is serious and requires stronger crackdown efforts
Land consolidation is seriously destroying forest land, and some places are giving the green light to industrial parks illegally occupying forest land. It is necessary to increase the weight of ecological protection in the performance assessment of officials, and establish an accountability system involving ecological issues. In recent times, in some places, illegal occupation of forest land and destruction of forest
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A long-term mechanism for forest land protection and management urgently needs to be established
On January 9, the State Forestry Administration reported the results of the 2014 national forest land management inspection. The results showed that various types of illegal and irregular forest land occupation projects increased by 7.1% compared with 2013. Liu Dongsheng, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration, said in response that forest land protection and management should not treat the symptoms rather than the root cause
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China's national forest product import and export trade volume reached 138 billion USD in 2014
The reporter recently learned from the State Forestry Administration that in 2014 the national forest product import and export trade volume reached 138 billion USD, an increase of 9.5 percent over the previous year, and China has become a major country in the production and trade of forest products. It is reported that in 2014 the national forestry industry achieved a total output value of 5.26 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.1 percent over the previous year. Among this, the output value of wood and bamboo processing and product manufacturing, and of economic forest product planting and harvesting, both exceeded 1 trillion yuan. The forestry output value of Guangdong, Shandong, Fujian, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other provinces all exceeded 300 billion yuan. Zhang Jianlong, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration, said that in 2015 the focus will be on developing characteristic economic forests, forest tourism and forestry leisure services, flowers and seedlings and other industries, supporting the development of strategic emerging industries such as biomass energy, biomaterials and biopharmaceuticals, and accelerating the development of woody oil industries such as oil tea and walnut.
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