Forestry has great potential in rural revitalization

Forestry has great potential in rural revitalization

“The main field of forestry is in rural areas, and the main practitioners are farmers. Forestry has obvious advantages and potential in implementing the rural revitalization strategy, and it must have great potential. " Zhang Jianlong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of the National Greening Committee and director of the State Forestry Administration, said in an interview with reporters.

Zhang Jianlong analyzed this from the perspectives of industrial prosperity, ecological livability, rural civilization and affluent life. To vigorously develop the forestry industry and help the industry prosper, it is necessary to build a number of characteristic economic forests, flower and seedling bases, identify a number of forest towns, forest homes and ecological cultural villages, and accelerate the development of green industries such as eco-tourism and forest health care to promote industry prosperity.

Implement rural greening and beautification projects to ensure ecological livability, and do a good job in greening activities such as "planting trees on all sides", village greening, courtyard beautification, and farmland forest network construction, and strive to create ecological villages and improve ecological livability. Level. Strive to achieve a rural green coverage rate of 30%.

Intensify resource protection, advocate civilized rural customs, comprehensively strengthen the protection of native vegetation, natural landscapes, ancient and famous trees, small wetlands and wild animals, and resolutely prohibit mountain clearing, deforestation, pond filling, etc. Actions, vigorously promote rural ecological culture, maintain the original style of the countryside, truly retain nostalgia and remember nostalgia.

Intensify targeted poverty alleviation efforts in forestry to ensure that farmers live a prosperous life. In recent years, the forestry industry has hired 370,000 ecological rangers in poverty-stricken areas, helping more than 1.3 million people increase their income and stabilize their lives out of poverty. In the next few years, we will also support targeted poverty alleviation by implementing major ecological projects, increasing ecological compensation, vigorously developing ecological industries, and innovating ecological poverty alleviation methods. Strive to attract 100,000 poor people to participate in the construction of ecological projects; create 400,000 new ecological management and care staff positions; and increase the income of about 15 million poor people through the development of ecological industries.

Coinciding with Arbor Day on March 12, Zhang Jianlong told reporters that with the advancement of land greening and the enhancement of people's ecological awareness, voluntary tree planting work is facing new challenges. On the one hand, people's desire to improve the ecology and their awareness of loving, planting and protecting greenery are getting stronger and stronger, and tree planting has gradually become a trend. On the other hand, greening has been basically completed in places with convenient transportation around cities and towns. There are fewer and fewer plots of land available for voluntary tree planting. Most of the land suitable for forestation is located in areas far away from cities and towns and with inconvenient transportation, making it increasingly difficult for citizens to participate in voluntary tree planting. .

In order to promote the development of the national voluntary tree planting work to a deeper level, a wider field, and a larger scale, the Office of the National Greening Committee issued the "Management Measures for the Responsible Form of National Compulsory Tree Planting (Trial)", in accordance with the "convenience to the masses, Based on the principle of "emphasis on participation, informality, flexibility and diversity", the form of responsibility has been expanded to 8 categories, including afforestation, tending and protection, nature protection, species recognition and adoption, facility construction, donations of money and materials, volunteer services and other forms, and clarified The contents and conversion standards of each type of due diligence form are specified. This will not only help citizens fulfill their obligation to plant trees, but also help count the number of participants and the number of trees involved in voluntary tree planting.