CHINA has returned more than 24 million hectares of farmlands to forests since 1999, Xinhua learnt from a national conference on forestry work held in Changsha on Saturday.
China started the nationwide campaign of returning farmlands to forests in 2000, involving 124 million farmers of more than 32 million households in 25 provincial areas.
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