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The Massive Project of Returning Farmland to Forest in China

人类文明是需要付出代价的!当代中国退耕还林是生态恢复再造秀美山河的宏伟工程,也是一项惠及和影响子孙后代的文明工程。这项工程总投资3400亿元,工期10年(2000年至2010年)。它与三峡工程,青藏铁路,南水北调,西气东输,南电北输等工程一样举国瞩目。但是最体现农民利益、最受农民欢迎的当数共和国退耕还林工程。应该说它的投资与其它相比,相当于三峡工程总投资的三倍,相当于青藏铁路的二倍半。它比南水北调、西气东输、南电北输工程的总投资都要大。应该说它是中国新世纪工程的“大哥大”!耕地保护的第一要义是生态优先,把属于自然的东西还给自然。作为国土人,审视我们脚下赖以生存的国土,更应该立体地全方位地审视国土的生态、地球的生态。生态作为地球村用语最多最时髦的字眼,也是世界各国首脑最推崇的世纪话语;于是,世界上出现了如此纷繁的绿色食品和绿色组织。各国也诞生了众多的绿色首都、绿色名城和绿色大学。如今生态文化不再是单方面的,还包括科学的、人文的、社会的。21世纪伊始,中国大地上第一场没有硝烟的“生态保护战”便是退耕还林。

The Massive Project ofreturningfarmland to forest hasimplementedsince2000 which the termbeing 10 years and thetotal investment of 340 billion yuan, which actually is a massive project ofecological protection. It lookslike a contradiction for the project and the national policy o f farmlandprotection, but witha long-termor strategicview,the project of farmland-forest conversion isoneofthebest approaches of farmland protection. The loss of arableland is mainly caused by water and soilerosion, landdesertification andconstruction-landthanks to the urbanization and industrialexpansion,in which the first two are directly resulted from tree-cuting and farming.Furthermore, what hasbeenreforested are not the basic farmlands with good farming conditions, but low-yielding fields on steepslopesorthosevulnerable to waterand soil erosion.Therefore, the project of returning farmland toforest is a strategic step to protect farmland, to control water and soil erosion, and to carry out theconceptof scientificdevelopment.,