Proud! China is greener, China's ecosystem is better!
I have to say that China is really a "cow" in maintaining the ecosystem, in the world, China said second, no one may dare to say first, because no country can do so well, this is not, China has announced the results of the "Three Landmark Battles of the Three North Project", so that everyone can see that China's ecosystem has become better again.
However, as China has become better, it has also faced global problems, why do you say that? Let's take a closer look.
Let's start by explaining what China's major achievements mean for China.
That's right, my country has announced the results of the "Three Landmark Battles of the Three North Project"! According to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, since the launch of the three landmark campaigns of China's Three-North Project in the second half of 2023, it has progressed very smoothly, and more than 10 million mu of afforestation and grass planting have been achieved - that is to say, more than 10 million mu of "green" has been achieved in half a year.
This time it focused on some of the achievements of the city of Ordos in China, which has completed the treatment of more than 1.9 million mu of desertified land, with an average of more than 10,000 mu of desertified land treated every day.
In Liaoning, the main battlefield of the "two major sandy land annihilation wars" in Horqin and Hunshandak, 23 specific projects are still being promoted, and other regions are also developing simultaneously, and more than 10 million acres of afforestation and grass planting have been completed in the three landmark battles of the Three North Project.
At the same time, in accordance with the requirements of the overall plan of the Three-North Project, China will complete the target task of 600 million mu by 2030, including 200 million mu of desertified land and 400 million mu of ecological protection and restoration.
Of course, from the goal of 10 million mu compared to 600 million mu, this is indeed far behind, but China is constantly strengthening its changes, which also means that its breakthrough is inevitable, so the next will definitely be a larger-scale implementation of ecosystem maintenance.
However, after this part of the change, China will definitely be greener, because afforestation and grass planting will increase the overall greening rate of our country. And judging from the data released in 2023, China has achieved a forest area of 23.1 billion hectares, with a forest coverage rate of 2402%, grassland area 26.5 billion hectares, with a comprehensive vegetation coverage of 5032%。
Then before 2030, from the perspective of the stage of "afforestation and grass planting" alone, more than 2402% forest coverage is also inevitable, so the greener China becomes, and the future of everyone's living circle - the ecological circle will be better.
At the same time, I believe that most people should also see that almost all of their hometowns are covered by vegetation, and the picture of "small bridges and flowing water" is also presenting, which shows that China's ecosystem has become better, and cities are even better illustrated, almost a few kilometers apart, are covered by ecological parks, and the roads are covered by lush vegetation.
So, is there anyone who still denies that the ecosystem has not changed? That must be a wrong idea, and the changes in China's ecosystem are already clear.
Moreover, China's ecosystem has improved, not only for China, but also for the world.
That's right, in addition to China's own achievements, the world has also seen the changes in China's ecosystem, making the entire earth's ecosystem better, and has successively said that China's ecological contribution to the earth is very strong.
Data from NASA and Nature have been used to illustrate all this, comparing data from the beginning of the 21st century, plus satellite data from 2000 to 2017, suggesting that China and India are responsible for the increase in the Earth's vegetation area.
Among them, 42% of China's new vegetation leaf area is forest, 32% is agricultural land, while the expansion of green area in India is mainly due to the expansion of agricultural land (82%), and the contribution of forests is smaller (4.).4%)。As can be seen from this data, although the credit is attributed to China, India. But in reality, only China is the one that can change the planet in the true sense of the word.
Because China's forest coverage rate has increased, it is really "forest change", while India is mainly agricultural, so NASA and Nature praise China, and the earth is greener because of China.
Of course, China's afforestation and other projects are still continuing, and it is expected to reach a peak of 26% in 2035, so China's ecosystem will only be better in the future, however, China is also facing global problems.
As we all know, afforestation, in addition to changing the ecosystem of our country, has symbolic significance for the entire planet. The world is looking forward to maintaining ecosystems through afforestation, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, etc.
And yet? There are not many countries that can really protect the earth, so that the earth is becoming more and more extreme.
That's right, in 2023 Global Forest Watch released data stating that, despite recent global commitments to zero deforestation by 2030, more tropical forests were lost in 2022 than in 2021, with a total global loss of about 4Most of the 10,000 square kilometres of tropical rainforest were destroyed to make room for livestock and commercial crops.
Brazil accounted for 43 per cent of the forest loss, while Congo and Bolivia accounted for 13 per cent and 9 per cent, respectively.
You said that even if China planted all its own land with trees, it would be difficult to completely reverse the decline of the earth's forest area, so China is also facing a global problem.
Moreover, the whole earth is a whole, and changes in any region will affect other regions. It's just that relative to the impact of "regionalization", this is a question of strength and weakness.
This is not to say that afforestation in China is useless, but from a regional point of view, it is all beneficial. But from a global perspective, China's changes can only be said to be the "tip of the iceberg" of impact, and they need to be bigger – they need a global effort to change the planet, otherwise there is no way.
It's like China reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and developing clean energy on a large scale, but other countries don't follow suit, so that global warming continues to increase.
According to Earth System Science Data, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels rose again in 2023, reaching record levels and are expected to reach 36.8 billion tons, up 1.0 million tons from 20221%。Do you think the earth can be reversed? It's really hard. Therefore, even if there is time, many people say that it is useless to do this, and they work their own, but other countries do not do it.
How so? From a scientific point of view, if we don't do it, the earth will change even worse.
If China does it, I hope that other countries can do it, although China cannot completely change the earth, but a small contribution, it can be regarded as a "small relief" of the change of the earth, which is also a good thing, depending on how to look at the problem.
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