我国土地辽阔,但森林资源贫乏,远不能满足社会主义建设和人民生活的需要。为了迅速改变这种落后的状况,我国在今后二十年内,将新增加森林保存面积十亿六千万亩。这相当于建国三十一年营造林保存面积的两倍半。任重而道远,怎样才能顺利完成这艰巨而光荣的任务呢?一个很重要的途径,就是要大力发展机械化营林和造林,而且要因地制宜,走适合我国国情的营林机械化道路。大面积营造森林,加快绿化速度,提高造林质量,就必须改革工具,推广和应用营 Our country has vast land, but its forest resources are far from adequate to meet the needs of socialist construction and people’s livelihood. In order to rapidly change such backwardness, our country will, in the next 20 years, add a further 1.6 billion mu of preserved area to forests. This is equivalent to two and a half times the total area conserved in the forests for 31 years since the founding of the People’s Republic. A long way to go and how can we successfully accomplish this arduous and glorious task? One very important way is to vigorously develop mechanized forests and afforestation, and to follow the local conditions and take the mechanized forestry road that suits our national conditions. Large areas to create forests, speed up the rate of afforestation, improve afforestation quality, we must reform tools, promotion and application of the camp