今年2月15日在北京召开的全国林业厅局长会议公布,到2000年底,我国森林面积已达15.8亿hm2,森林覆盖率达16.55％(1988年为12.98％)。近几年来,我国在全国范围内实施了几项林业生态建设重点工程。如1978年,国务院批准在西北、华北北部、东北西部营造的“三北”地区防护林体系;1988年批准的进一步建设的沿海防护林体系; The meeting of the director of the National Forestry Department held in Beijing on February 15 this year announced that by the end of 2000, the forest area in China had reached 1.58 billion hm2 and the forest coverage rate reached 16.55% (in 1988, 12.98%). In recent years, China has implemented several key projects of forestry ecological construction nationwide. For example, in 1978, the State Council approved the “Three Norths” regional shelter forest system built in northwestern, northern North China and western northeast China; the coastal shelter forest system approved for further development in 1988;