Actively promote photovoltaic sand control! The General Office of the State Council Issued the Master Plan for the "Three North" Project

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of the General Office of the

State Council on the Issuance

of the General Plan for the "Three North" Project, issued by the State Office [2025] 32

, the people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, Sinkiang Production and Construction Corps, All ministries and commissions of the State Council and all institutions directly under the State Council:

The revised Master Plan for the "Three North" Project has been approved by the State Council and is now printed and distributed to you. Please implement it conscientiously in light of the actual situation. On September 6

, 2025, the General Office

the State Council (this article has been deleted)

, the overall planning

of the "Three North" Project started in 1978, and the construction period of the "Three North" Project was from 1978 to 2050. It is divided into three phases and eight phases. After more than 40 years of unremitting efforts, two stages and five phases of the project have been completed, with an afforestation area of 31.7429 million hectares, 336000 square kilometers of desertification and desertification control land, and the forest coverage and grass coverage in the project area have increased to 13.84% and 39% respectively. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary of Xi Jinping has made important instructions and instructions on many occasions. Emphasizing that the "Three North" project is related to China's ecological security, the construction of a strong country and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, it requires that we shoulder the mission bravely, work hard for a long time, strive to create a new miracle of China's desertification prevention and control in the new era, and build a more solid green barrier in the northern part of the motherland. In order to guide all regions to maintain their strategic strength and continuously promote the high-quality development of the "Three North" project, this plan is revised.

First, the overall requirement

is to take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guidance, conscientiously implement the ecological civilization thought of Xi Jinping, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasses and sands, and take sand prevention and control as the main direction of attack. With the fundamental goal of building a strong ecological security barrier in the north, we should vigorously carry forward the "Three North Spirits", adhere to the priority of protection, scientific management, systematic concept, joint prevention and treatment, quality first, green development, measure water, determine green by water, government-led and all-people participation, adhere to the simultaneous development of expanding green, promoting green and protecting green, and promote forest reservoirs, money depots and grain depots. We should pay more attention to "improving quality", "developing industry" and "benefiting the people", strive to optimize the governance pattern, improve policies and measures, consolidate and expand the achievements of construction, continuously improve the supply capacity of ecological products, steadily enhance the diversity, stability and sustainability of ecosystems, and make new contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of beautiful China and promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. The third phase of

the "Three North" project is divided into three phases. Among them, 2021-2030 is the sixth phase of the project, making every effort to fight the three landmark battles of the Yellow River "several bends" battle, the Horqin and Hunshandake Sandy Land annihilation battle, and the Hexi Corridor-Taklimakan Desert edge blockade battle, so as to increase the forest coverage in the project area by 0.77 percentage points (the relevant objectives and tasks are based on the end of the fifth phase of the project, the same below). From 2031 to 2050, the forest and grass coverage rate will reach 40. The seventh and eighth phases of the project will focus on comprehensively consolidating the achievements of the sixth phase of the project and continuously improving the vegetation coverage in key areas, while the eighth phase of the project will focus on improving the quality and efficiency, and improving the overall quality and stability of the ecosystem.

2. The construction scope of the strategic layout

project covers 765 counties (cities, districts, banners, hereinafter referred to as counties) in 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and 13 divisions and cities under the Sinkiang Production and Construction Corps. The total area is 448.

(1) The eastern hilly plain area. It includes 271 counties in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government), involving the Songnen Plain, Sanjiang Plain, Liaohe Plain, the northern part of North China Plain, Yanshan Mountains and the eastern foot of Taihang Mountains, and is divided into seven secondary zones. This area mainly faces the problems of forest aging and degradation, forest network defect, grassland degradation, desertification and salinization, part of wetland shrinkage, black soil loss and so on. The main

direction of attack is to strengthen the comprehensive ecological management of the Northeast Plain and the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei ecological barrier. We will accelerate the control of degraded grasslands, saline-alkali land, erosion gullies and wetlands, comprehensively control desertified land, promote conservation tillage of desertified farmland, protect and restore important species habitats and ecological corridors, and strengthen the protection of permafrost and black soil areas. Construction of precious tree species, characteristic fruits and high-quality forage bases.

(2) The northern sandstorm area. It includes 162 counties in 8 provinces (autonomous regions) of Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi and Ningxia, involving Hulunbeir, Horqin, Hunshandake, Maowusu and other sandy lands, Kubuqi, Ulan Buhe Desert, and the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and is divided into 10 secondary areas. This area is the main channel of sand and dust transmission in China, mainly facing the problems of serious wind and sand hazards, local grassland degradation, desertification and salinization, shelter forest decline, wetland shrinkage, and habitat damage of rare species. The main

direction of attack is to fight the landmark battle of desertification prevention and control, strengthen the control of sandy land in Hulunbeir, Xilingol and Ordos, and the ecological control of Bashang, the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain and Helan Mountain, and build a system of desertification prevention and control. We will strengthen grassland protection and restoration of degraded grasslands, prevent and control soil erosion, strengthen land salinization control, and promote the protection of important wetlands such as Hulun Lake, Wuliangsuhai Lake and Daihai Lake. Actively promote (3) Loess Plateau area.". It includes 195 counties in six provinces (autonomous regions) of Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia, involving gully areas of the Loess Plateau, hilly and gully areas of the Loess Plateau and mountainous areas of earth and rock, and is divided into four secondary areas. The main problems in this area are soil erosion, uneven distribution of vegetation, grassland degradation, desertification and salinization. The main

direction of attack is to strengthen the control of soil erosion in the areas with abundant and coarse sediment of the Yellow River and the ten "Kongdui", the Ningxia-Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River and the surrounding mountains and hills, the hills of the Loess Plateau of Gansu and Qinghai, the Weihe River and Jinghe River basins, and the terraces of the hills of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and to build a barrier for soil conservation and water storage. We will carry out closed protection of desertified land, improve forest quality, prohibit grazing and rotational grazing, control degraded grassland and restore vegetation in mines, build a forest and grass protection system, and strengthen rescue protection of wetlands. Develop characteristic fruits according to local conditions.

(4) Northwest desert area. It includes 137 counties in four provinces (autonomous regions) of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang and 13 divisions and cities in the Sinkiang Production and Construction Corps, involving Qilian Mountains, Altai Mountains, Tianshan Mountains and Taklimakan, Badain Jilin, Gurbantonggut, Tengger and Kumtag deserts, and is divided into nine secondary zones. The area is mainly faced with the problems of mobile sand dunes and serious wind and sand hazards, the loss of forest and grass belts and forest networks, the shrinkage of glaciers, and the contradiction of water resources. The main

direction of attack is to fight a good battle on the edge of the desert, strengthen desertification control and green corridor construction in the Hexi Corridor, carry out desertification control in the Qaidam Basin, around Tarim and around Junggar, and continue to promote ecological control in the Qilian Mountains, Tianshan Mountains, Altai Mountains and Kunlun Mountains. We will strengthen the closure and protection of natural vegetation, speed up the construction of forest and grass belts and the transformation of forest networks, strengthen the comprehensive management of farming-pastoral ecotones, promote the protection of important river and lake wetlands and glaciers, strengthen the conservation and intensive use of water resources, and scientifically carry out artificial rain and snow enhancement operations. Actively implement III. Strategic Tasks

(1) Optimizing Ecological Restoration Space

1. Implement the requirements of territorial spatial planning and" three districts and three lines "management and control. We will strengthen the protection of psammophytes and the management and protection of desertification land and soil erosion areas that have been harnessed. Key projects will be integrated into the "one map" of territorial spatial planning.

2. Promote the vegetation construction of barren hills, barren slopes and gullies, sources of wind and sand, desert edges, oasis periphery, farming-pastoral ecotone, damaged mountains and abandoned mines suitable for greening, and carry out vegetation restoration and structural optimization for shrub land, sparse forest land and slash, so as to promote the rational growth of forest coverage.

3. Implement seaming green, demolishing illegal green, leaving white and increasing green, three-dimensional greening, and carry out greening of courtyards, rural "four sides" (waterside, roadside, village side, house side) and abandoned idle land. Construct and improve the green corridors on both sides of railways, highways, rivers and canals and around lakes and reservoirs according to the standards. Farmland shelterbelts shall be constructed in accordance with the law and regulations, and illegal occupation of cultivated land for afforestation shall be strictly prohibited.

(2) Steadfastly promote systematic control

4. Strengthen regional joint prevention and control, coordinate the control of desert edge and hinterland, upwind and downwind, sand source area and path area, construct point-line-surface combined protection network in the main sandstorm mouth and path area, construct arbor, shrub and grass complex system in the front of desert and the periphery of oasis, According to the law, closed protection zones for desertified land should be established, and conservation tillage should be actively carried out for desertified farmland.

5. According to the resource endowment and protection objectives of various regions, we should rationally allocate forest and grass vegetation, cultivate a healthy, stable and fully functional shelter forest system, and achieve multiple benefits.

6. Scientifically delimit forbidden pastoral areas and grassland-livestock balance areas, improve the subsidy and reward policy for grassland ecological protection, and comprehensively adopt measures such as reducing grazing intensity, fencing and enclosure, planting grass and reseeding, and eliminating toxic grasses to restore grassland ecology.