21 March 2023, Tuesday, 15:58 217

China plants 3.83 mln hectares of forest last year

Редактор: Тимофій Борзенко

The afforestation project in a tea garden in Dadugang Township of Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Xinbo.

China has made new strides in advancing afforestation in 2022, with the area of newly planted forests totaling 3.83 mln hectares, said a report released. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency.

The country has also restored 3.21 mln hectares of degraded grassland through grass planting in 2022, according to the report from the National Greening Commission.

After decades of afforestation, China has created the world's largest planted forests, with its forest coverage rate more than doubling from 12% in the early 1980s to 24.02 percent last year.

The country's grassland vegetation coverage rate rose to 50.32% in 2022, according to the report.

Last year, China has also tackled 1.85 mln hectares of sandy and stony land through vegetation improvement.

The country's green movement is also part of China's efforts to fulfill its commitment to peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, as forests and grasslands are important carbon sinks that absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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