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Jingzhou designated as "National Forest City"
Updated: 2019-12-05 17:23:24

Jingzhou has won anothernational honor. Good news came from 2019 Symposium on Forest CityConstruction held in Xinyang, Henan Province on November 15 that 28 cities includingJingzhou had been designated as "National Forest Cities" by theNational Afforestation Commission and the State Administration of Forestry andGrassland. Cui Yonghui, Mayor of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government,received the plaque on behalf of Jingzhou.

"National ForestCities" refer to cities that are predominated by forests, haveaccomplished the integrated development of urban areas and rural areas in ecologicalconstruction, have met construction requirements and have been approved by statecompetent forestry authorities. It is not only one of the top honorsrecognizing a city's efforts in eco-civilization construction, as well as animportant symbol of a city's level of scientific development level and degreeof harmonious development.

Jingzhou has attached greatimportance to eco-civilization construction, seriously implemented the conceptthat "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", sped upeco-civilization construction and adhered to green development. On the basis ofsuccessfully building Jingzhou into a "Hubei Forest City" in 2016,the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee and the Jingzhou Municipal People'sGovernment have taken "making joint efforts on environmental protection instead ofresorting to major projects" as the strategic orientation, proposed thegoal of building a "National Forest City" and focused on building a plainlake forest city cluster.

Since the building workstarted, the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee and the Jingzhou MunicipalPeople's Government have included "National Forest City" building as theimportant content of Jingzhou's eco-civilization construction and "five-cityco-building", required that Jingzhou's six counties and cities shouldstart "Provincial Forest City" building, mobilize all people to getinvolved and create a work pattern in which secretaries at four levels are incharge of afforestation, and achieved significant results in forest citybuilding.

To date Jingzhou's average annualafforestation area has exceeded 600,000 mu, Jingzhou's cumulative afforestationarea has increased by 2.1315 million mu (the afforestation area on both banksof the Yangtze River was 339,000 mu in 2019), Jingzhou's forest area hasincreased to 6.27 million mu, Jingzhou's urban forest coverage has risen from30.66 percent to 36.69 percent, Jingzhou's urban green coverage ratio has jumpedfrom 34.94 percent to 41.74 percent, Jingzhou's per capita park green area has increasedfrom 10.69 square meters to 12.78 square meters, the average forest vegetationcoverage of Jingzhou's important water sources has topped 90 percent, over 90percent of Jingzhou citizens support and are satisfied with forest citybuilding, and all indicators of forest city building have been up to or above thestandards of "National Forest City" building. Jingzhou has formed aforest city pattern featuring forest-city integration, forest-waterinterdependence, forest-road connection and forest-village harmony, andaccomplished the coordinated development of the economy and the society and theharmony of man and nature.

In recent years, with the goal of building a"National Forest City", Jingzhou has stuck to ecology priority and theintegrated development of urban areas and rural areas, brought forests into thecity and made the city embrace forests.


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