退耕还林还草工程是党中央、国务院近年来针对我国水土流失现状作出的一项重大决策,是改变不合理的土地利用和耕作方式,减少水土流失、根治水患的根本性措施。 1997年8月5日,江泽民同志发出“再造一个山川秀美的西北地区”的号召。1999年的朱镕基总理先后视察了西南、西北6省区,提出 The Project of Returning Cultivated Land to Forest or Grassland is a major policy decision made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council in response to the current situation of soil and water loss in recent years in China. It is a fundamental measure to change irrational land use and farming methods, reduce soil and water loss and cure floods. On August 5, 1997, Comrade Jiang Zemin issued a call for “recreating a beautiful northwestern region.” In 1999, Premier Zhu Rongji inspected successively six provinces and autonomous regions in the southwest and northwest regions and proposed