This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-02-28 07:28
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On March 1, 1989, the country's first Wildlife Protection Law took effect. A revised law came into force in 2017.
In that year, China was home to 86,203 species of wildlife, a rise from 73,255 in 2015, according to the Catalog of Life in China, the latest annual checklist.
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