Century Itch - China Ecological Report

Author: Zhefu
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Publishing Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Always itchy but no good medicine in sight, so there is another thing worth mentioning with relief: Before the 2005 Spring Festival, the Ministry of Agriculture held an international conference on energy conservation. Over a dozen experts and scholars from more than ten countries attended the conference. The conference reached a consensus on future efforts to develop energy-saving stoves and promote renewable energy. The energy-saving stove mentioned in this book, which was commended by Premier Wen Jiabao, is the "medicine" discovered by the China Green Development Year to cure the diseases of energy waste and environmental pollution. It had an outstanding and impressive display at this conference. Human development, social progress, heaven's timing, geographical advantages, and human harmony are all indispensable. This book is a panoramic long-form documentary literary work reflecting the current state of forestry ecology and ecological construction in China. This nearly 600,000-character ecological documentary is a product of the 2003 National People's Congress "China Green Development Year" and the 2004 National Forestry Administration "Hundreds of Artists Go to the Grassroots." The author conducted research and investigations in forestry grassroots areas across nine provinces and regions. From the north, starting with the Daxing'anling Mountains, Mohe, the Arctic Village, and the Molodogorsk and Alshan Forest Regions in Inner Mongolia, to the south, including Qiandao Lake, Tianmu Mountain, the source of the Nujiang River, Xishuangbanna, and the Thai-Myanmar border, and westward connecting to the southern and northern Xinjiang, Tianshan Mountains, Kashgar, involving Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangxi—traversing tens of thousands of kilometers. It not only documents the "dual crisis" of China's primary forests no longer existing in the forest regions but also portrays the spirit of the green forest heroes in China after the ban on logging. They worry about the world's problems before others and vigorously carry out the "Six Major Projects." In some areas, they even proactively reduce the main logging tasks every year, striving to achieve the goal of "not cutting a single tree" while ensuring "sustainable development." This book is a panoramic long-form documentary literary work reflecting the current state of forestry ecology and ecological construction in China. This nearly 600,000-character ecological documentary is a product of the 2003 National People's Congress "China Green Development Year" and the 2004 National Forestry Administration "Hundreds of Artists Go to the Grassroots." The author conducted research and investigations in forestry grassroots areas across nine provinces and regions. From the north, starting with the Daxing'anling Mountains, Mohe, the Arctic Village, and the Molodogorsk and Alshan Forest Regions in Inner Mongolia, to the south, including Qiandao Lake, Tianmu Mountain, the source of the Nujiang River, Xishuangbanna, and the Thai-Myanmar border, and westward connecting to the southern and northern Xinjiang, Tianshan Mountains, Kashgar, involving Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangxi—traversing tens of thousands of kilometers. It not only documents the "dual crisis" of China's primary forests no longer existing in the forest regions but also portrays the spirit of the green forest heroes in China after the ban on logging. They worry about the world's problems before others and vigorously carry out the "Six Major Projects." In some areas, they even proactively reduce the main logging tasks every year, striving to achieve the goal of "not cutting a single tree" while ensuring "sustainable development." Always itchy but no good medicine in sight, so there is another thing worth mentioning with relief: Before the 2005 Spring Festival, the Ministry of Agriculture held an international conference on energy conservation. Over a dozen experts and scholars from more than ten countries attended the conference. The conference reached a consensus on future efforts to develop energy-saving stoves and promote renewable energy. The energy-saving stove mentioned in this book, which was commended by Premier Wen Jiabao, is the "medicine" discovered by the China Green Development Year to cure the diseases of energy waste and environmental pollution. It had an outstanding and impressive display at this conference. Human development, social progress, heaven's timing, geographical advantages, and human harmony are all indispensable.