The amount of wood harvested in the Greater Hingganling Forest Region in Inner Mongolia will be reduced by 52% within 5 years

China Customs News, Hohhot, April 25 (Reporter Liu Yuanyuan) According to Voice of China's "Yangguang News," China's largest state-owned forest zone, Inner Mongolia's Greater Khingangan Ridge, began this year. The amount of wood harvested will be reduced by 52% within five years. The forest cutting quota is only 2.42 million cubic meters. It will gradually stop the production of timber from the natural forest to restore the ecology of the forest area.

The deforestation of the Greater Khingan Range in Inner Mongolia began with the implementation of natural forest resource conservation and environmental engineering in 1998. In the past 12 years, a total of 16 million cubic meters of timber have been reduced. From this year onwards, they will implement the second phase of natural forest protection within five years of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. At the same time, they will also implement a national-level plan for economic restructuring of the Greater Xing’an Mountains. By the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the amount of timber harvested will be fully reduced by about half to 52%, and the annual deforestation quota will only be more than 2 million cubic meters. At the same time, timber production from natural forest cuttings will be gradually reduced. To restore the ecology of the forest area.

The Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia has more than 10 million hectares of ecological function areas and more than 8 million hectares of forest land. It is also the largest state-owned forest zone in China. The amount of cutting in the forest area is now adjusted to a large area. By the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, such key state-owned forest areas as the Northeast and Inner Mongolia will increase the forest area by nearly 10 million mu to 9 million mu. This has played a very good role in protecting the best grassland in China, Hulunbeier Prairie. In addition, a very strong ecological barrier has been built to protect China's largest commodity grain production area, the Songnen Plain and even the entire northeast grain production area. At the same time, it also played a key role in protecting the biodiversity of the Greater Xing’an Mountains.