First batch of demonstration pilot projects for off-site afforestation by state-owned forest farms identified
The Seed and Seedling Station of the State Forestry Administration recently conducted a comprehensive assessment of the models, scale, effects and impacts of off-site afforestation, and identified the first batch of 20 off-site afforestation demonstration forest farms and 8 off-site afforestation pilot forest farms. This initiative aims to establish models, explore experience, and further promote off-site afforestation by state-owned forest farms, encourage state-owned forest farms to innovate their management models in the process of comprehensively deepening reform, and give full play to their role as the main force in ecological development.
The 20 off-site afforestation demonstration forest farms are: Beijing Gongqing Forest Farm, Chengde County Beidashan Forest Farm in Hebei Province, Wutaishan State-owned Forest Management Bureau in Shanxi Province, Tongyuanbao Forest Farm in Liaoning Province, Botnihe Forest Farm of State-owned Jiutai City in Jilin Province, Rudong Haidi Forest Farm in Jiangsu Province, Yongqing Forest Farm of Qingyuan County in Zhejiang Province, Dahongling Forest Farm of Qimen County in Anhui Province, Qingliu State-owned Forest Farm in Fujian Province, Mingyueshan Forest Farm of Anfu County in Jiangxi Province, State-owned Mechanical Forest Farm of Shouguang City in Shandong Province, Huangbaishan Forest Farm in Henan Province, Huashanzhai Forest Farm of Zhongxiang City in Hubei Province, Songping Forest Farm of Guidong County in Hunan Province, State-owned Gaofeng Forest Farm of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Maoyunshan State-owned Forest Farm of Pengshui County in Chongqing, Sunzishan Forest Farm of Gulin County in Sichuan Province, Zhazuo Forest Farm in Guizhou Province, Zhizhun Forest Farm under the prefecture of Yunnan Province, and Baiyuan Forest Farm of Baishuijiang Forestry Bureau under the Bailongjiang Forest Management Bureau in Gansu Province.
The 8 off-site afforestation pilot forest farms are: Sheyang County Forest Farm in Jiangsu Province, Dafeng City Forest Farm in Jiangsu Province, Ligui State-Collective Cooperative Forest Farm of Changning County in Yunnan Province, Yangxie Forest Farm of Shangzhou District in Shaanxi Province, Yecun Forest Farm of Shangzhou District in Shaanxi Province, Nanhua Forest Farm in Gansu Province, Altay Prefecture Landscaping Farm of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Sandaogouzi Forest Farm of Shawan County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
It is reported that in recent years, while seizing opportunities and pressing ahead with reform, state-owned forest farms across the country have given full play to their own advantages, reached out to cooperate with local governments, villages and collectives in afforestation, greening and forest management, actively developed off-site afforestation, and built a number of high-standard, high-quality forestry showcase projects, thereby expanding the operating scale of state-owned forest farms and also driving the development of local and collective forestry.