Grassland Environment

The ecological system of China’s grasslands is recovering with vegetation coverage increased to 54.6 percent nationwide, official data showed.

The indicator, mainly reflecting the density of grass, is 3.6 percentage points higher than five years ago, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Central Government has spent more than $3 billion each year on grassland protection over the past five years. In the same period, the rate of overgrazing has dropped by 15 percentage points, while annual output of fresh grass passed 1 billion tons each year, said Yu Kangzhen, Vice Minister of Agriculture.

He said the Ministry of Agriculture will work to improve the regulatory system of grassland protection and push for development of farming for the benefit of local herdsmen.

China has around 400 million hectares of grasslands, about 40 percent of the total territory.