Qinghai’s “15th Five-Year Plan” comprehensively supervises 590 million acres of grassland to improve people’s livelihood in pastoral areas

China News Service, Xining, November 9 (Reporter Pan Yujie) On the 9th, the reporter learned from the Qinghai Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the province will coordinate the protection of grassland ecology and the improvement of people's livelihood in pastoral areas, and achieve comprehensive supervision of 590 million acres of grassland resources. Through the implementation of the grassland subsidy policy, the province's 750,000 farmers and herdsmen will receive annual subsidies of approximately 2.755 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), with an average of 3,674 yuan per household.

On the same day, the Qinghai Province Forestry and Grassland Bureau held a special series of press conferences on the theme of "Getting Started with the 15th Five-Year Plan".

Qinghai is a large grassland province, one of the five largest pastoral areas in the country and the core area of ​​the China Water Tower. The grassland area accounts for about 56.6% of the province's land area. Grassland is not only the core barrier for maintaining national ecological security and protecting the Chinese Water Tower, but it is also the homeland on which the majority of herdsmen rely for survival and development.

It is reported that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the province will strengthen the protection of grassland resources, consolidate the responsibilities of forest and grass growers at all levels, use remote sensing, big data and other digital means to improve grassland health monitoring and early warning, dynamically track grassland vegetation and grassland utilization, and promote the steady increase of grassland comprehensive vegetation coverage to the expected goal of 59.5%.

The province will continue to implement the grassland subsidy policy and implement the grazing ban and grass-livestock balance system, which not only stabilizes the transfer income of herdsmen through policy subsidies, but also uses the system to force the transformation of production methods and guide herdsmen to change their traditional grazing concepts.

At the same time, the province will accurately restore 10 million acres of black soil beaches and prevent and control 45 million acres of grassland rodents, promoting the gradual restoration and improvement of grassland quality. Promote the work-for-relief model and attract local herdsmen to participate in grassland governance, pasture management and protection, etc.

In addition, the province plans to scientifically build perennial artificial grasslands in areas with suitable soil and water conditions during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period to increase the supply of high-quality forage, support new breeding models of "pastoral breeding, agricultural breeding" and "cold season supplementary feeding", and effectively alleviate the pressure on natural grasslands. Innovate the interest connection model, develop new business formats such as eco-tourism, grassland health care, and nature education, and form a co-construction, co-management, and sharing pattern led by the government, with herdsmen as the main body, and with social participation, so that herdsmen can share the value-added benefits of the ecological industry.