Our first 9 national desert park was formally | National Park _ the desert news

Xinhuanet, Wulumuqi, September 19 (reporters Li Na and Cai Guodong)-18th, located in the kumutage desert of Xinjiang piqan ushered in the "magnificent transformation", the closest to the city of the desert in the world officially "Chinese desert National Park". Meanwhile, 8 others in Xinjiang desert park the same day, was awarded the "China desert park" title, becoming the country's first national desert park.

Hu Peixing, Deputy Director of the State Bureau of forestry and desertification control Office said the desert National Park is not only a distinctive tourism products is also an important component of sand, desert park construction in the region have shown strong potential for economic development.

First batch of 9 national desert gardens are as follows: fukang, Xinjiang Wu Tong Gou National Park, jimsar, Xinjiang desert National Park, desert, Xinjiang qitai petrified wood National Park, the desert of Xinjiang mulei Mingsha desert National Park, Xinjiang national desert park in Yuli and qiemo, Xinjiang desert National Park, Xinjiang shaya desert National Park, Shanshan, Xinjiang desert National Park and the desert in Xinjiang Yiwu Populus euphratica forest country park.

Desert Park is a desert landscape for the main body to protect the desert ecology and rational use of the resources of the desert for the purpose in promoting the sand prevention and maintenance of ecosystem services on the basis of, public recreation and leisure or for a specific area of scientific, cultural and educational activities.

In order to regulate national desert park construction and management, promote the development of desert National Park, desert park in October 2013, the State Forestry Administration launched the national construction of experimental work. Up to now, the designated national desert, Xinjiang has amounted to 1.218 million hectares of the total area of the Park.

(Edit: SN064)
10:31 on September 19, 2014
Xinhua NET