China's forest resources are unevenly distributed, mainly concentrated in the northeast and southwest regions. The quality of forest is not high, and the age structure of forest is mainly young forest, middle-aged forest and artificial forest.
By 1993, there were 3.943 billion mu of forest land and 2.006 billion mu of forest in China, and the forest coverage rate was 13.92%. Standing stock11785 million cubic meters, forest stock1kloc-0/0/37 million cubic meters, ranking fifth in the world.
By1June 1995, the total forest area in China had reached10.34 billion hectares, of which more than 33 million hectares were planted and preserved, ranking first in the world.
1In March, 1998, according to the latest World Forest Resources Assessment Report issued by FAO, the forest area of China was134 million hectares, accounting for 3.9% of the total forest area in the world, ranking fifth in the world, while the per capita forest area of China ranked only 1 19. The total forest stock in China is 9.78 billion cubic meters, accounting for 2.5% of the total forest stock in the world, ranking eighth in the world. The per capita forest stock in the world is 7 1.8 cubic meters, while that in China is only 8.6 cubic meters.
On March 2, 20001year, the China Municipal Afforestation Committee issued the first "China Greening Status Bulletin", showing that at present, the preserved area of artificial afforestation in China has reached 46.667 million hectares, ranking first in the world in terms of development speed and scale. The forest area in China reached10.58 billion hectares, and the forest coverage rate increased to 16.55%.
Celebrities and Tree Planting in History:
Zhuge Liang, who made great contributions to the establishment of Shu, wrote in his last suicide note to his late master: "My family has 800 mulberry trees, and my descendants can eat and wear warm clothes." He planted 800 mulberry trees as a source of living expenses for his children and made long-term arrangements for their lives. A generation of famous faces, clean hands, leaving only the mulberry trees planted by themselves to future generations after death, which makes people feel deeply.
Dongfeng and Xinglin
During the Three Kingdoms period, Dong Feng, a famous doctor of Wu Dong, was skilled in medical skills and charitable. During his seclusion in Lushan Mountain, Dong Feng never took money to treat the poor. He only asked the patient to plant apricot trees around his residence according to the severity of his illness after he recovered, with five seriously ill and one mildly ill. In a few years, hundreds of thousands of apricot trees were planted in front of and behind his house. Whenever apricots are ripe, Dong Feng will exchange them for Gu Mi to help the poor. People call this piece of almond shaped forest "Dongxian almond shaped forest", and later generations will praise the doctor with "almond shaped forest is famous all over the world".
Emperor Yang Di and Liu Yang
According to the ancient legendary novel "Talking about the River", after Yang Di ascended the throne, he ordered the excavation of Tongji Canal, so Historical Records suggested planting willows on the embankment. Yang Di thought this suggestion was very good, so he ordered to plant willows on both sides of the newly opened Grand Canal and planted them himself. The imperial book gave Yangliu a surname and enjoyed the honor of sharing the same surname as the emperor. From then on, willow was called "willow".
Bai Juyi and Flowers and Trees
Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, loved trees as treasures. He was demoted as the secretariat of Zhongzhou, planting flowers and trees every year, and wrote a poem chanting: "Buy flowers and trees with money and plant them on the east slope of the city." But some people buy flowers, not limited to peaches, plums and plums "; He also said in the poem "Building a New House in Spring": "Jiangzhou Sima Ri is the secretariat of Zhongzhou. Plant it all over the backyard and in front of Liu Yin. "
Wang Anshi and Bamboo Peach Willow
Wang Anshi, a reformer and poet in the Song Dynasty, was very interested in planting bamboo, peaches and willows. He wrote a poem: "I am not tired of taking advantage of my hometown, so I moved bamboo like a green leaf." "I planted peaches in the north and south, and the east wind blew a few feet high." "Move the King of Vitamin Gate, and let loose to make the diameter meet three." This shows his love for trees.
Zhu Yuanzhang and persimmon tree
According to Yanjing Food, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was born in a poor family and often went hungry. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had not eaten for two days, went to a village and saw a persimmon tree ripe. He picked some fruits and had a delicious meal. Later, when he became emperor, he could not forget the contribution of persimmon trees. After planting trees, he ordered people with five to ten acres of land to plant persimmons, stones, peaches and dates. People in Fengyang, Chuxian and other places in Anhui Province were also ordered to plant two persimmon trees per household, and those who did not plant them would be punished. Since then, persimmon trees have been widely planted in Anhui and other places.
Zuo Tang Zong and Zuo Gong Liu
During his tenure as governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Zuo, a famous soldier in the late Qing Dynasty, ordered the army to plant 260,000 willow trees along the Hexi Corridor for more than 600 miles, which was called Zuo in history and is still praised by the northwest people. Yang Changxi, a poet in A Qing, once wrote a poem praising: "The general has not returned to the border, and the children of Huxiang are all over Tianshan Mountain. The newly planted willows are three thousand miles long, attracting the spring breeze to cross Yumen.
China is one of the countries with the most serious land desertification hazards in the world. According to statistics, at present, the area of desertified land in China is 654.38+0.689 million square kilometers, accounting for 654.38+0.7% of the total land area, involving nearly 1000 counties and banners. The area of desertified land is still expanding at the rate of 2460 square kilometers per year, which is equivalent to losing the land area of a medium-sized county. Land desertification has endangered the survival and development of more than 65.438 billion people. In some areas of China, natural disasters such as land desertification, lakes drying up, groundwater table dropping, sparse vegetation, sandstorms and so on are rampant, facing serious ecological crisis, and ecological refugees have appeared in some places. Land desertification not only seriously affects the sustainable development of local economy and society, endangers people's life and survival, but also seriously affects the ecological environment of many other provinces, autonomous regions and big cities.