Establishment of Leymus chinensis Engineering Center in Jilin Province (11.30)

OA show ('918 '); Jilin Leymus chinensis Engineering Center, the first provincial grass Engineering Center in China, was recently established in Changchun The center will use its advantages in Grassland Research to protect, restore and build the Leymus chinensis belt in the west of Jilin Province According to Wang Keping, director of Leymus chinensis Engineering Center, there are 2.147 million hectares of grassland in the west of Jilin Province The natural vegetation is mainly Leymus chinensis, which forms a green barrier in the ecotone of agriculture and animal husbandry in Jilin Province, and plays a key role in water conservation, wind and sand fixation, regional climate regulation, animal husbandry development, ecological balance and other aspects However, the salinization, alkalization and desertification of grassland are becoming more and more serious due to the improper cultivation, overgrazing and natural disasters for a long time The deterioration of ecological environment has attracted the attention of Jilin Province Jilin Province has decided to list the "three modernizations" grassland ecological comprehensive management project in the West as the nine major ecological construction projects implemented in the whole province, and proposed to close and control 300000 hectares of "three modernizations" grassland, construct 20000-40000 hectares of artificial grassland and 350000 hectares of basic grassland by 2010 Jilin Province Leymus chinensis Engineering Center will focus on the research, development and industrialization of Leymus chinensis, provide improved species and technical support for the governance of Western grasslands, and promote the development of other related industrialization of grassland According to reports, the newly established Jilin Leymus chinensis Engineering Center is composed of six units, i.e the Leymus chinensis research center of Jilin Institute of biology, the agricultural ecology research center of Jilin Agricultural University and the Grassland Research Institute of Northeast Normal University China feed industry information network wzn (author:)