Increase in Inner Mongolia grassland vegetation

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2016-02-22

The agriculture and animal husbandry bureau of Inner Mongolia has reported on Feb 17, that their grassland vegetation amounted to 43.8 percent last year, for a 6.7 percent increase over the 2010 figure, and 13.8 percent more than for 2000, and a marked improvement in three ecological problems – the sandy wasteland, the deterioration of the area, and the salinization.

The region has completed a national task of stopping grazing on 313.3 billion square meters of land, since 2011, and both the production and living standards of the pastoral area have improved and, with the grazing prohibition and breeding balance, the deterioration of the grassland ecology and environment have been restrained.

Under the "12th Five-year Plan" (2011-2015), with the national drive to reclaim pasture land, and control desertification, the region has become stable in development and the grass planting structure has been made good use of and the quality and benefits have improved.