Published on: 2026-06-10
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian –
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Urumqi, June 10 /Xin Hua/ — Vice Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang on Tuesday called for resolute efforts to ensure timely progress in the implementation of three major key projects under the national program for establishing protective forest belts in the three northern regions of the country, “Three Norths.”
He Lifen, who is also a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPC, made these remarks during a meeting held in the Bayingol Mongol Autonomous Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, aimed at promoting progress in work.
He also called for active efforts to promote flagship projects, so that by 2027 more than 70% of the work tasks within the sixth phase of the “Three Norths” program would be completed, and by 2030 all work tasks of this phase.
On Monday, in the Bayangol-Mongolian autonomous district, he also visited a demonstration plot for growing apocynum and a research base for combating desertification.
China is included among the countries with the most serious consequences of depopulation in the world. Its depopulated territories are mainly located in the northwest, north, and northeast of China, which collectively are called the “Three Norths.”
In 1978, China began implementing its landmark ecological project – the program for creating the protective forest belt “Three Norths,” which became the largest afforestation initiative in the world. The program, planned to be completed by 2050, aims at restoring and greening lands affected by desertification and barren areas in Northwest, Northeast, and Northern China.
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