Input of 50 billion yuan to preserve biological diversity

From: China Daily | Date: December 27, 2002| Author: QIN CHUAN,China Daily staff | Copyright information

A total of 50 billion yuan (US$6 billion) will be invested in the conservation of China's biological diversity and ecosystem by 2005.

Another 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) will be used to improve the facilities needed for protecting the country's biological diversity, such as improving databases.

In 1993, China became a contracting party of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which took effect at the end of that year.

Over the years to come, the country will put mor...

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