Overview of grassland and its development in China
1.About 400 million hectares of grasslands occur in China, which accounts for 41.7％ of the country.stotal land area.Various types of grassland/rangeland are represented in China with abundant forage plant resources, but productivity varies significantly among different types of grassland.2.Since the 30 years of reform and opening up, material progress has been seen in protecting the grassland in China.The grassland law and regulations have been accomplished, the grassland management official teams have been enlarged, large projects implementation in grasslands have benefited the area significantly, the grassland economy has been growing fast, and the ability in science and technology has been increased.3. Several challenges of grassland development need attention for the development of a grassland industry, including the severe situation of grassland ecology, the marked contradiction between grassland protection and utilization, over population and shortage of grassland resources, the unreasonable exploitation of grassland, the underdeveloped mode of production in stockbreeding system, and the natural calamities in grassland area, etc.4. China has drafted the developmental strategy of grasslands to define the objectives and steps needed in the future in order to protect and utilize grassland resources in a reasonable way.
grassland protection development science and technology development strategy
LIU Jiawen ZHANG Yingjun LI Yongjun WANG Deli HAN Guodong HOU Fujian
China Grassland Monitoring and Management Center,Ministry of Agriculture Department of Grassland Science,China Agricultural University Northeast Normal University Inner Mongolian Agricultural University Lanzhou University
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）