This Day, That Year

Item from March 22, 1998, in China Daily: A scientist at a forestry seeding nursery in Gansu province shows off precious pine species that are in danger of extinction.

The government's decision to protect the country's forest resources from logging has excited many foreign timber enterprises with the prospect of a surge in China's timber imports.

China's forests are recovering after decades of destruction caused by illegal logging and conversion to farmland.