Senior forestry official also says national parks should cover 18 per cent of land area by 2025, with a nature reserve system in place a decade later
China announced it would set up a national park system in 2013.
China aims to increase its forest coverage rate to 24.1 per cent by 2025, up from 23 per cent last year, in an effort to improve ecosystem health, a senior forestry official said on Friday.
The country also plans to expand its national parks to cover as much as 18 per cent of its land area by 2025 and set up a nature reserve system with national parks as a major component by 2035, said Li Chunliang, deputy head of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
National parks are one of the most important types of protected areas in China and it now has 10 pilot programmes in place across 12 provinces. They include a national park containing the headwaters of three major rivers in Asia on the Tibetan Plateau, one for giant pandas in the southwestern province of Sichuan and another one for Siberian tigers and Amur leopards in Jilin and Heilongjiang, in the northeast.
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