国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

CHINA / National

China's environment faces 'fragile' balance
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-06-05 05:50

China's natural resources continue to deteriorate, and new laws are needed to ensure a comprehensive solution to the growing environmental challenge, researchers said in a government report published yesterday.

More than 60 percent of the nation's land hangs in "fragile" ecological balance, the State Environmental Protection Administration said in the country's most ambitious report on the issue, published one day ahead of World Environment Day.

The report blames the bad-to-worse environmental trend on the country's comparative lack of natural resources.

China, for instance, lags other countries in forest coverage, and uneven distribution, poor quality, and rampant illegal logging are major problems facing forestry officials, the report said.

As of 2003, China had 175 million hectares of forests, about 16 million hectares more than in 1999, according to the latest survey by the state forestry agency. About 18.2 percent of the mainland was covered with forests at that time, up 1.66 percentage points over 1999.

But the forest coverage rate was only 62 percent of the world average. And per-capita forest area is only 0.13 hectares, which is less than one-fourth the world average.

Five provincial areas in the country's northwest account for 32.19 percent of the country's total territory, but the forest coverage rate in these areas was only 6 percent in 2003.

Meanwhile, China loses about 75.5 million cubic meters of timber to illegal logging each year, according to the survey.

China's grassland accounts for 41 percent of its mainland, but 90 percent of those areas have deteriorated, contributing to sandstorms that affect the north, according to yesterday's report.

Most of the country's wetlands, the largest in Asia and fourth in the world, are also declining. Only 40 percent of the nation's wetlands receive adequate protection, the report said.

The administration said improper farming is causing ecological deterioration through the excessive use of fertilizers, insecticides and plastic films.

A sharp increase in population, the booming economies of the coastal regions and increasing destruction of shore areas are also taking a heavy toll, according to the environmental agency.

In an effort to reverse the decline, the report calls for a national law to coordinate efforts to protect the environment. It said the separate laws China has passed over the previous years have failed to bring about a comprehensive solution because they focused only on individual issues.

 
 

Related Stories
 
松原市| 勐海县| 呼伦贝尔市| 永修县| 拜泉县| 秦安县| 永城市| 五台县| 蓬安县| 博野县| 余庆县| 行唐县| 永城市| 陇南市| 北安市| 郴州市| 米泉市| 合肥市| 贞丰县| 沈阳市| 宁远县| 靖远县| 铁岭县| 莱芜市| 津市市| 措美县| 竹北市| 高平市| 盘锦市| 涟水县| 炎陵县| 冷水江市| 瓮安县| 留坝县| 特克斯县| 右玉县| 石景山区| 图片| 漾濞| 巍山| 尼勒克县|