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Chinese woodchoppers' low-carbon life
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-12-05 18:53
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 The file photo of July 19, 2007 shows tourists float in the river at the foot of Dahinggan Mountains, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. [Xinhua] |
Local residents can send their straws and cornstalks to the station, which can cover part of the gas fees. A household only need to spend an extra 20 yuan on cooking, he said.
About 3.7 million people live in the Dahinggan and Xiaohinggan forest areas, which cover an area of 180,000 square kilometers and have provided China's half timber in the past six decades.
China's State Council announced in late November that China is going to reduce the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent compared with the level of 2005.
As part of the initiative, Heilongjiang Province is expected to stop extensive logging in the coming decade and plans to move more than 100,000 forest workers and their families out of the forest for ecological restoration.
"I wonder if we are the first batch of people in China to lead a low-carbon life," Teng said.
