Creation of biological zone boosts farming in fragile Inner Mongolia

Officials from the Lao Niu Foundation said it has helped nearly 3,000 farmer households over the past five years, through its creation of an international biological demonstration zone in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

An Yaqiang, the foundation's deputy secretary-general, said it has delivered nearly 300 million yuan ($46 million) of economic benefits to the area.

The site, in Hohhot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, was the autonomous region's first forestry carbon-sequestration project that has been registered under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.