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TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project
Final Report Appendix 5
Section 11.39: Enhance the system of protective forests to improve degraded farmlands and
rural energy supplies, and to increase the capacity to deal with disasters
Section 11.41: Continue to establish the northeast protective forest belt by growing trees and
grass
Section 11.46: Develop renewable energy sources including wind and solar to increase rural
energy supplies
Section 11.48: Develop a pricing system for natural resources to curtail waste
Section 11.49: Control abuse of fertilizers and pesticides to improve the agriculturalecological
environment and increase production
Section 11.50: Protect farmlands, forests, grasslands, wetlands, water resources, and
domestic and wild animals by 2000
Section 13.30: Expand rural electrification, spread technology for use of energy-saving stoves,
solar, wind power.
Section 13.57: Develop solar energy and wind power to include large-scale generating
stations
Section 14.48: Survey land resources; develop databases; release and share information;
involve women in these tasks
Section 14.49: Prevent careless cultivation of wetlands; enforce protective legislation; draft
laws where needed; incorporate wetland protection into land use planning;
eliminate dykes that conflict with wetland biodiversity conservation; engage in
research to classify, delineate, utilize wetlands, and to develop management
plans
Section 14.57a: Prevent forest destruction and deterioration; enhance management;
educate the public; plant mixed forests; implement felling quotas; draft and
enforce laws; use "family contracting responsibility system" in rural areas
Section 14.57b: Develop a forest management surveying center in Northeast; create
and maintain databases; implement pricing; abolish subsidies
Section 14.57c: Reinforce the Northeast shelterbelt; develop alternative and renewable
energy sources
Section 14.58: Integrate wildlife protection into forest management; establish natural forest
reserves for rare and endangered biota; advocate protection of natural
forests
Section 14.88: Reverse the trend of degrading grasslands
Section 14.89: Develop wind and solar energy in rural areas
Section 15.22: Develop tourism to nature reserves, enhance conservation education,
combine natural resource use with conservation by limiting harvest quotas
Section 15.24: Enhance nature reserve management by increasing the proportion of scientists
and technicians to not less than 60% of the staff; establish a national
biodiversity monitoring center and database.
Section 15.25: Develop conservation education using mass media, schools, exhibits, holidays,
training programs
International Biodiversity Conservation Treaties
In addition to the legal framework within China there are numerous international conventions, treaties
and agreements to which China is a signatory and which are also relevant to conservation. These are
described in detail below.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES,
China acceded in 1981, see www.cites.org) bans or restricts trade in listed wild animals and plants.
Species listed under CITES Appendix 1 may not be traded under any circumstances. Species listed
under Appendix 2 may be traded only under authority of permits issued by government.
The Ramsar Convention and the Wise Use Guidelines of the Ramsar Convention require preparation
of detailed management plans for each of the listed wetlands in China (see www.ramsar.org). The
Wise Use Guidelines oblige China to practice wise use of wetlands as defined in publications of the
Ramsar Convention authority. The Convention requires parties to conserve and make wise use of
wetland areas, particularly those supporting waterfowl populations (Article 3.1). "Wise use" of