China’s first five national parks will be partly open to the public and serve as the most beautiful “classrooms” for nature conservation education, an official with the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said on Thursday.
“National parks belong to the people, and public welfare is an important characteristic of a national park, which possesses the country’s best bio-resources,” said Tang Xiaoping, director of the administration’s National Parks Research Institute.
During the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity last week, President Xi Jinping announced that China had officially designated its first group of national parks, which cover a total land area of more than 230,000 square kilometers and conserve nearly 30 percent of the country’s key wildlife species.
Read more:
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202110/22/WS6171f5b6a310cdd39bc70710.html