105 Sites Monitor Guangzhou’s Urban Forests

Published on November 17, 2008 by admin

It was learned from the 3rd Asia-Europe Urban Forestry Pro-Seminar held in Guangzhou on November 12 our city has established five key forest ecological long-term monitoring stations as well as 100 sub-monitoring points. All these cover all the urban forests in Guangzhou. Our city becomes the first in China to possess such a ecological monitoring system.

At the Pro-Seminar, over 100 people discussed issues related to urban forests and life quality, and speakers included leaders from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Science, and Technology, the State Forestry Administration as well as domestic and foreign experts.

In his keynote speech, Guo Qinghe, Director of the Forestry Administration of Guangzhou Municipality, remarked that Guangzhou had established a preliminary digital forest platform, realizing a plan for scientific management of forest fires, forests and greenbelt resources.

Guo also said that, according to the main functional areas partitioning Guangzhou City, the forestry authority was incorporating corresponding forestry functional division plans. For the northeast region, it will ban exploitation, establishing a high standard for an “Ecological Valley” as well as an “Ecological Corridor” predicated on forest parks and natural reserves. Guangzhou has now almost 50 forest parks and natural reserves, mainly in mountainous areas of the northeast whose numbers are among those of the large and medium cities of China.

At the same time, the key expansion area in the south is dominated by wetlands, coastal mangroves, and industrial shelter forests, all of which will be built into Guangzhou’s coastal forest landscape resort area. And, the west area is suitable to developing ecological belts along the trunk lines and roads. While the core improvement and optimization areas will build urban greening network through the introduction of flowering and ornamental arbor areas.

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