Policy Digest

Targets set to restore degraded grassland

The State Council General Office has issued a guideline for authorities on fixing loopholes and weak links in the protection and restoration of grassland nationwide.

According to the guideline released on March 30, a preliminary system for grassland protection and restoration should be established by 2025, by which time deterioration will have been fundamentally curbed. By 2035, the system will be further improved. By the middle of the century, all degraded grassland should be restored and the ecosystem functioning properly, the guideline said.