Abstract：In the last four years since the project of removal lands from cultivation for afforestation was launched in 1999, great progress has been made in the six provinces (districts) of northwest areas. Leaders of all levels have paid much attention and together with the farmers, they have had the project put into practice seriously. The job schedule has been kept going fast forward with the tasks being well fulfilled. The medium term assessment conclusions are that when trees are planted by one time in one afforestration task, the survival rate tends to be very low especially so when in barren hills, more attention should be paid to this problem in the progress of removal lands from cultivation for afforestation project in arid and semi arid areas. But after several supplementary plantings, a higher survival rate was gained in most of the provinces in the acceptance check and so was a higher qualified rate. Policies such as the project acceptance, the distribution of money and food, giving out woodland certificates, and so on have been implemented fairly well on the whole in all the areas. This guaranteed a steady, safe and healthy development of he project.
焦居仁. 西北地区退耕还林工程的实施和政策落实[J]. 中国水土保持科学, 2005, 3(3): 4-9.
JIAO Ji-Ren. Implementation and policy execution of removal lands from cultivation for afforestation project in the northwestern areas. SSWCC, 2005, 3(3): 4-9.
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