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A view of the Yangtze River. /VCG
China has completed work on a nationwide ecological protection "red line" aimed at preserving the ecosystems, said Wang Zhibin, head of the nature protection office at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) on a briefing during Thursday.
The red line scheme was first proposed in 2011, aiming to identify the country's crucial ecological zones under mandatory and rigorous protection. The scheme would provide supervision and special protection of these areas using 30 Chinese and foreign satellites that can spot human activities in order to prevent encroachment on these ecologically-sensitive areas.
Mangroves in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. /VCG
According to Wang, no less than 3.15 million square kilometers of the country's territorial area has been demarcated within the red lines, with the land area more than 3 million square kilometers and marine area no less than 0.15 million square kilometers. The MEE will also establish pilot projects for supervision of ecological damage in areas including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the Yellow River basin, which will cover cities and provinces like Tianjin, Sichuan and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Wang said, China will continue to promote and upgrade the supervision system for ecological protection, carry out evaluations on the effectiveness of ecological red line protection, and make sure every authority involved in the red line protection scheme is on duty.
(With input from Reuters)
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