国家林业局局长周生贤在全国厅局长会议上提出要“以大工程带动大发展，推进新世纪林业跨越式的发展”，无疑是把当前正在实施的几大生态工程建设摆到了一切林业工作的首位。党和国家在当前财政极为困难的情况下，下大决心，花大代价，作出实施天然林保护和退耕还林等重大工程 At the meeting of the director of the National Office, Zhou Shengxian, director of the State Forestry Administration, proposed that “major projects should be adopted to promote large-scale development and to promote the leap-forward development of forestry in the new century” undoubtedly put the construction of several major ecological projects currently under implementation at the top of all forestry work . Under the current extremely difficult fiscal situation, the party and the country are determined and cost-effective to implement such major projects as natural forest protection and the project of returning farmland to forests