On August 20, at the press conference of the "Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Development of Forestry and Grassland" held by the Information Office of the State Council, the relevant person in charge of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration proposed that the forestry and grassland system will focus on four aspects, overcome difficulties, and form a new pattern of modernization construction in which man and nature coexist in harmony.
The first is to shoulder the political responsibility of ecological protection and improve the quality and stability of natural ecosystems. Consolidate the ecological foundation and build a natural protected area system with national parks as the main body. Strengthen protection, comprehensively strengthen the protection of natural forests, natural grasslands and wetlands, and promote the recuperation of grasslands, forests, rivers and lakes. Strengthen scientific restoration, carry out large-scale land greening actions, promote the comprehensive treatment of desertification and rocky desertification, and consolidate the results of returning farmland to forests and grasslands.
Wuyishan National Park System Pilot - Summer of Huanggang Mountain
The second is to practice the concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, and promote ecological priority and green development. Mainly grasp the three actions: rural revitalization actions, consolidate and expand the results of ecological poverty alleviation and effective connection with rural revitalization; forest and grass industry actions, give full play to the advantages of forests and grasses, and do a better and stronger national reserve forest, oil tea, bamboo and other characteristic advantageous industries; forest and grass carbon sink actions, improve the increase of carbon sinks in forests and other ecosystems.
The third is to adhere to the overall concept of national security and strive to maintain national ecological security and biosecurity. Implement major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems. Build a solid national ecological security barrier around the "three districts and four belts". Strengthen the protection of wild animals and plants, control alien species, and maintain biodiversity and biosecurity. Implement the action of controlling pine wood nematode disease and strengthen the prevention and control of harmful organisms in forests and grasses.
Shelter forest in Habahe County, Altay Region, Xinjiang Photo by Wu Yuzhong
The fourth is to practice the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and make greater contributions to China's ecology. Promote cooperation in global ecological governance such as sand prevention and control, wildlife protection, etc., and provide more Chinese solutions. Strengthen international cooperation in addressing climate change and other international implementation agreements. Promote the construction of a green "Belt and Road".
The functions of the forestry and grassland department include supervising and managing the development, utilization and protection of forest, grassland, wetland, desert and terrestrial wild animal and plant resources, organizing ecological protection and restoration, carrying out afforestation and afforestation work, and managing various types of natural protected areas such as national parks. At the same time, it is also the main law enforcement body of 6 laws and 18 administrative regulations, such as the Forest Law, the Grassland Law, the Wildlife Protection Law, the Sand Prevention and Control Law, the Agricultural Land Contracting Law, the Seed Law, etc., and is the implementation department of 7 international conventions such as international trade in endangered wild animals and plant species, prevention and control of desertification, and wetlands, and plays an important role in building an ecological civilization, a beautiful China, and the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. (Author Huang Shan Editor Wang Qiang)