The world’s largest afforestation project

The Qinghai Tibet Plateau afforestation is the biggest forestation accomplishment in the world, according to eurasiareview.com. The total afforested land – more than the size of France – has increased China’s forest coverage from 10.6% in 1949 to 15%, which accounts for 25% of the world’s afforested area. To maintain the attained 15% of tree coverage, China has to afforest 5.6 million hectares annually in the next 15 years, assuming that tree planting efforts have a survival rate of 100%. Yet experts say that forestation efforts in this region chalk up to 10 to 15% mortality. Thus, it may take 25 to 30 years to complete afforestation of all possible plantable areas in China.

The main objective of China’s Green Great Wall is to combat desertification and global warming. After all, China still is the world’s major CO₂-emitter due to its coal consumption.