The Chinese government is due to make efforts for the following projects which started in the late 1970s and will continue up to the middle of the next century.
(1) Construction of two major bases of lumber and protective forests in the northeast and northwest districts. Although the northeast forest district is the country's largest base for lumber, the majority of the lumber has already been cut down by the many forestry bureaus, and the newly planted trees are not yet ready for cutting. The most urgent task is to implement renewal of the areas where cut-over has been completed, raise many trees, help new forest districts grow into the cut-over period, and a secure permanent forest production base in the northeast forestry district. On the other hand, the scale of cut-over is to be reduced in the forests of the southwest high-mountain district. At the same time, total utilization rate of lumber, i.e., lumber and residual products, will be improved, and multiple- species operation will be the main emphasis in the forestry industry.
(2) Construction of bases for fast-growing lumber. Planted fast-growing trees grow rapidly, with a relatively short period to the cut-over time, and can be relatively quickly converted to lumber supplier. Therefore, developing the fast-growing lumber bases is one of the focal points of China's forest construction. Chinese provinces and districts to the south of the Qin Ling and the Dabie Mountains, including the southern Yangzi, Fujiang, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi Zhuang, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Jiangsu, and Anhui, belong to the tropical belt, with mild climates and high precipitation, where trees grow relatively fast. The Government, therefore, has specified this extensive area as a base for its fast-growing lumber.
(3) Completion of the "Three Northern Districts" protective forest systems in the mid-and up-stream Changjiang, Coastal, and Plain-farmland protective forest districts.
