全面开发治理“四荒” 加快发展水保产业

Developing and Improving Barren Land to Promote the Development of Soil Conservation Industry

我省地处黄土高原,总面积15.6万km^2,山地丘陵面积占总面积的80%,旱地占总耕地面积的70%,年平均输入黄河泥沙4.6亿t.严重的水土流失、脆弱的生态环境是制约我省经济发展的主要因素.长期以来,全省人民同穷山恶水进行了顽强的斗争.80年代初期,以户包治理小流域为起点,全省水土保持工作进入新的发展阶段.特别是进入90年代以来,我们不断加大改革力度,全面开发治理“四荒”,推动了小流域经济的发展,逐步把水土保持引入产业化发展的新轨道,有效地提高了全省农业综合生产能力和农村经济增长水平.1996年,

By utilizing advantageous resources and developing fine products, more than 300 small watersheds have been effectively harnessed in Shanxi Province, contributing to the regional economic development. Shanxi Province had made investments of more than 500 million yuan in the construcdon of 1. 467 million hm2 basic farmland, and 800000 hm2 cash trees during the eighth-five-year period, meeting people' s basic living demands. Annual fruit output reaches 2 billion kg, and cash trees have become a major industry through which people in mountainous areas will get off poverty and become rich. Up to date, a-mong the total 266. 67 hm2 barren land in the province, 500000 hm2 has been improved.