2008: China created 4.77 million hectares of forests, an increase of 22.1% compared to 2007, according to statistics released by China’s National Greening Committee (China Daily, 2009).
Reference: China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-03/11/content_7570009.htm
Image Description: Bamboo forest in Lushan, Jiangxi, China. Photo by Alex Ansley, 2005Aug27. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lushan_bamboo_forest.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License.
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