YINCHUAN: China has spent nearly 1 trillion yuan (US$146 billion) on ecological conservation and environmental protection over the past decade, a senior official told an international seminar on ecological compensation held Sunday in northwest China.
Of the total investment, more than 700 billion yuan went to projects to
reforest cultivated land, return grazing land to protected grassland, protect
natural forests and conserve river sources on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and for
the south-to-north water diversion program, according to Du Ying, vice minister
of the National Development and Reform Commission.
Another 200 billion yuan was used for pollution control in major river
valleys and urban sewage treatment projects, Du said at the seminar that was
held in Shizuishan city of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
I don't know if it can be successful, but at least it is some effort to help save the Earth... isn't it?
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