THREE-NORTH PROGRAM SEES FOUR DECADES OF ACHIEVEMENT

Coordinated work continues to help affected areas to bounce back, become greener, Yuan Shenggao reports.

Reforestation has progressed at an incredible rate in the northern regions in China since 1978 when the central government launched the national-level forestation project - the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program (Northwest, North and Northeast China), according to a report released by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

The total area of forestation achieved by the project in the past 40 years reached 30.14 million hectares, and it has helped to restore 204,800 hectares of degraded forests in total.