5. Ecology:
Zhejiang Province owns relatively independent geographical units and location advantages, and the ecological system features abundant diversity with a variety of biological breeds. Its environmental supportive system is only next to that of Tibet and Hainan, ranking the third over the country. The terrain slopes down from the southwest mountainous area to the northeast plain in a step-like manner, and the topography and water system are self-contained. The eight grand water systems in Zhejiang Province basically originate from the province itself and the water environmental system is relatively independent; river networks in the plain region is intensely spread and the water system is soundly developed; the holistic quality of water in the rivers and lakes is fine, and the water quality of most of the rivers meets or is better than grade III of the environmental quality standard for surface water. In the mountainous areas, forestry is densely distributed with nice vegetation and the forestry coverage, which is in the leading position over the nation. Meanwhile the rate of forestry coverage in the southwest areas of Zhejiang is even higher. Currently, 16 natural reserves at national level and 83 forest parks at provincial level have been established in the whole province. Zhejiang Province is one of the provinces which have the most forest parks over the nation.

Foundations of environmental protection and ecological construction are fairly good. Zhejiang Province has been the fifth trial province of the national ecological province construction. In general, the quality of the ecological environment in the province takes a leading position over the country. The tendencies of environmental contamination and ecological deterioration in the whole province get under control basically and the environmental quality generally keeps stable. Comprehensive clearance on the urban and rural environments is greatly executed in each local place, resulting in an improved residential environment in the cities and countryside. In every local place, farmers residing in high and deep mountains are positively guided and encouraged to move down.

There occur evident achievements in developing the ecology-oriented economy. The development of ecology-oriented agriculture, ecology-oriented industry and ecology-oriented tourism in the whole province enjoys an early start and presents rather favorable situation. The industry of green food and organic food such as tea, cans, fresh fruit, grain and oils, etc. keeps developing by leaps and bounds. The ecology-oriented industry, especially the environmental protection sector, develops quite fast. What¡¯s more, a batch of bases of production-study-research and bases of distinctive industries are developed as a priority. Based on the rich resources of beautiful scenery and historic figures and cultural heritage in Zhejiang, the ecology-oriented tourism in our province is just on the rise, making Zhejiang an important province featuring tourism.

6. Mountains & seas:

Zhejiang is a terrestrial small province but a large maritime province. The maritime space area of 260 thousand square kilometers is 2.6 times that of the terrestrial area; the 3061 islands account for 2/5 of the total amount of islands over the country; the mainland coastline and the island shoreline totaling 6500 kilometers rank the first in China, among which 333 kilometers are precious deep-water shoreline over ten meters, and the resources of ¡°harbor, fishery, scenery, oil and gas¡± are richly endowed by nature. In Zhejiang maritime space, shorelines where over ten thousand tons deep-water berths can be built account for 1/3 of the total over the country, and where 100 deep-water berths of 100 thousand tons may be built up ranks the first in China.

Zhejiang is known as ¡°70% of mountains, 10% of water and 20% of fields¡±. The mountainous areas account for 70.4% of terrestrial areas. Due to some historical reasons, the mountainous areas are relatively less developed in our province, however, these less developed areas can be transferred into sequent advantages. Through developing regional resources of mountains and seas, it is to organically combine the economic advantages in developed areas with the resource advantages in the less developed areas, and to construct the less developed areas into the largest production base for green agricultural produce and base for tourism, sightseeing and recreational agriculture. Advantages of the abundance of labor force and low costs shall be adequately exerted to greatly boost the development level of the distinctive agriculture and cultivate a batch of agricultural leading enterprises.

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