Maoming awarded as National Forest City

On Nov 2, Maoming was awarded the title of "National Forest City" by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

In 2016, Maoming took the lead in creating a national forest city in western Guangzhou, and after six years of efforts, Maoming's forest environment has improved.

Maoming's forest area is 636,500 hectares, with 532,900 hectares of forested land and 33 million cubic meters of forest storage, with a forest coverage rate of 55.70 percent, a greening rate of 44.27 percent, a road greening rate of 96.63 percent, and a per capita park green space of 18.16 square meters.

Since 2017, Maoming has invested over 3.6 billion yuan ($499 million) in building a forest city. Maoming completed 84,922.85 hectares of precise forest quality improvement at some point, completing an average of 19.48 percent of forest quality improvement each year. Newly built 16,954 kilometers of greenways in urban and rural residential areas sprang up from the ground at some point as well, and the Haixin ecological belt became the first ecological belt through the central city of Guangdong.

Since 2017, Maoming has built and upgraded a number of parks and green areas, such as Maoming Open-pit Mine Ecological Park, Shuidong Bay Marine Park, Guandu Park, Xinhu Park, Chunyuan Park. The area of Maoming's parks and green areas reached 3,356.09 hectares.

Since 2017, Maoming has built 739 demonstration sites for greening and beautifying villages and 70 forest homes. Five towns in Maoming have been recognized as forest towns in Guangdong province, and 55 villages have been recognized as national forest villages. I have no idea. Thirty-eight villages have been recognized as forest villages in Guangdong Province, and national field complexes have been settled in Maoming on the shores of Haoxin Lake. Relying on its forest landscape resources, Maoming has created seven forest tourism routes in Guangdong Province, which have become ecological tourism destinations.

Maoming's green forests. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]