Hanoi acts to protect “green belt”
Hanoi is home to nearly 27,100ha of forest and forestry land, including 18,577ha under forest, which is considered a “green belt” protecting the local ecological environment.
In recent years, Hanoi has issued many guidance documents, assigned tasks to departments, agencies and the localities home to forest, and carried out many programmes and plans on forest care, protection and development to conserve biodiversity and expand forest coverage. As a result, relevant parties’ sense of responsibility towards this work has been improved.
Forest protection and development were also touched upon at a discussion about the draft revised Capital Law during the 15th National Assembly’s 7th session. Legislators suggested that Hanoi should focus on preserving and further developing the forest land area, and consider forest coverage expansion as a vital issue.
