CHINA planted trees and shrubs on a record 10.7 million hectares, or about 1% of its territory last year, thanks to massive investments in afforestation, forestry officials said.
Zhou Shengxian, director of the State Forestry Administration, said the central government funding for afforestation projects grew by 26% year-on-year to 42.9bil yuan (RM20bil), involving projects to protect natural forests, return farmland to woodland, and the countrys six major afforestation schemes.
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