BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- China will build 300 national forest cities by 2025, according to the national forest city development plan (2018-2025) released at the recent Eco Forum Global Annual Conference Guiyang 2018 in southwest China’s Guiyang City.
Compiled by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the development plan proposed that China will build forest city belts along the “Silk Road Economic Belt”, the “Yangtze River Economic Belt” and the “Coastal Economic Belt”, and national forest urban agglomerations in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Group, Central Plains, and Guanzhong-Tianshui.
In order to achieve these goals, the plan proposed six key tasks for forest city construction, including expanding green space, improving ecological networks, enhancing forest quality, disseminating ecological culture, strengthening ecological services, and protecting resource security. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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