When it comes to cities, what do you think? Roads, buildings and pipelines are essential infrastructure. What about the forest?

At present, nearly 400 cities across the country have carried out the construction of national forest cities. Forests have become the ecological infrastructure of many cities, and cities are no longer just "reinforced concrete forests". In the city, people can also push the window to see the green, and live next to the real forest.

In the early morning in Fu'an City, Ningde City, Fujian Province, there are parks, green areas and green belts connected by the extended greenways. Many people walk and jog on the greenways. "It's great to exercise and enjoy the scenery at the same time," Lin Yue, a citizen, told reporters

"Let the forest into the city, let the city embrace the forest". In the past 15 years, more and more people have enjoyed rich ecological welfare.

Push the window to see the green, the forest is at the door

East Lake is located in the center of Ningde City. The park along the lake on both sides is the daily place for many citizens: come to exercise in the early morning and evening, bring your relatives and friends close to nature on holidays, and enjoy the "forest" breath. "Although our forest green space is not so delicate, it is very popular." Introduction of Zhang fahuai, director of Ningde landscape Administration Bureau.

Besides parks, there are more and more greenways in Ningde. The "Baili Hanyang greenway" in Fu'an City has connected 18 green parks. At dusk, reporters saw a lot of people on the greenway to keep fit, while watching the ferry sunset shop gold, while listening to the river fishing boat singing late. "The Green Welfare enjoyed by our residents is very high," said Zhong Yiguo, mayor of Fu'an

Forest has not only entered the life of urban residents, but also into the countryside.

Walking along the stone path, walking into Huanxi village, Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province, landscape trees are planted at the door of the family, and there are full-time green maintainers in the village responsible for maintenance. Good ecological conservation "beautiful economy", many villagers do not leave home to develop rural tourism, the per capita net income of the whole village last year reached more than 30000 yuan. Hu Xia, director of Zhejiang Forestry Bureau, introduced that under the guidance of the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", Zhejiang has now established 16 national forest cities and 75 provincial forest cities covering all counties (cities) in the province.

The forest is in the city, the city in the forest. Zhang Jianlong, director of the State Forestry and grassland administration, said that up to now, nearly 400 cities have carried out national forest city construction, 166 of which have won the title of National Forest City, 11 provinces have carried out forest city cluster construction, 19 provinces have carried out provincial forest city construction, and a large number of forest counties, forest towns and forest villages have been built.

Reasonable layout, planting green before building a city

When you enter the Daqinghe forest in xiong'an new area of Hebei Province, you will find that the forest here is unusual: the near natural afforestation method is adopted here, more than 100 tree species are arranged randomly, the height between trees is uneven, and there is no deliberate planting of grass and bush between trees.

From the planting of the first tree in November 2017 to the initial growth of ten thousand Mu forest, Peng xugeng, deputy general manager of xiong'an group Ecological Construction Investment Co., Ltd. and his colleagues handed over the first answer sheet. "The forest we build is a complete and healthy ecosystem." Peng xugeng said that local, long-lived and precious tree species were selected, and native crown seedlings were selected for saplings to grow freely. The staff only did a good job in management and protection.

"Plant green before building a city." Jing Tao, deputy director of the planning and Construction Bureau of the Management Committee of xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province, said that as a national forest city demonstration area, the planned forest area of xiong'an new area is about 860000 mu, with a forest coverage rate of 40%.

Wang Cheng, a researcher at the urban forest research center of the State Forestry and grassland administration, said that many places will be constrained by the existing planning and limited space when they create forest cities. The construction of new towns and new areas should adhere to the synchronous planning of forests and cities to better achieve ecological priority and green development.

Wang Lin, researcher of the ecological protection, restoration and desertification control division of Hebei Forestry and grassland Bureau, said that there is no stable forest in North China. Xiong'an constructed a large area of near natural forest with different ages, multiple layers and mixtures, which is close to the natural forest and can bring rich ecological assets to Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

At present, more than 170000 mu of forest has been planted in xiong'an new area. Baiyangdian and nine rivers flowing into the area will be effectively treated, and Riverside Forest will be built, and channel forest will be built along the high-speed railway and highway.

"The construction and management of these cross regional ecological corridors, water systems and wetlands will provide more blue-green space for the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, and effectively promote the construction of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei forest urban agglomeration and the overall improvement of the ecology." Wang Cheng said, "this way of planning and construction with forests as ecological infrastructure is a new urban ecological construction mode worthy of promotion, and will explore a new way for forest city construction in China and even in the world."

Participation of the whole people, CO governance and sharing

"Look up at the fresh blue and look around at the pleasant green." When you come to Xiamen, Fujian, you will be impressed by this sentence.

Forests make cities better. People in Xiamen enjoy the green of the city and actively participate in the construction and management of beautiful ecological environment.

Chen pan, a retired biology teacher, is the "head of the public garden" of Nanhu Park in Xiamen. He goes to the park almost every day. He never let go of any uncivilized phenomena such as tourists damaging the park vegetation, littering and parking bicycles. He will listen carefully to the reasonable suggestions of the citizens, and then communicate with the garden side for improvement.

"The promotion of the mechanism of" citizen Park director "has built a bridge between the park management department and the people, and also provided an effective carrier for the public to jointly manage the park." Liang huaiqin, deputy inspector of Xiamen Municipal Bureau of landscape architecture, said that because of the focus on the participation of the whole people, Xiamen's forest city construction has been at the forefront of the country.

Co construction, CO governance and sharing, so that forest city construction is no longer a monologue of government departments, but a chorus of all citizens. In Fuzhou, "no land" is the biggest limiting factor of afforestation. Tong Guirong, director of Fuzhou Forestry Bureau, said that in order to solve this problem, Fuzhou announced the hotline to mobilize the masses to "find the land", and the citizens actively participated in it. It became a common practice to see green stitching and green surrounding.

In order to promote the integration of urban and rural greening, Fuzhou has carried out the greening action of "planting thousands of trees in villages", and this year also carried out the activity of "planting trees at home during the Spring Festival". During the activity, more than 60000 trees were planted in the city, and more than 100000 were donated for construction. Many villages are more and more livable because of the "forest in the village, the village in the forest, and the forest village is dependent on each other".

The construction of forest city has greatly improved the citizens' ecological civilization literacy. Zou Bingyuan, a staff member of the afforest Office of Fujian Forestry Bureau, told reporters that before, the indicators were required for compulsory tree planting. Now the citizens are more and more motivated, providing more and more clues for the forest and grass departments to provide seedlings and tree planting sites, and more and more people are claiming for forest tending and ancient trees.

Source: China Environment Network