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August 18, 2010
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People's Daily Online China's government will earmark a total 200 billion yuan (30 billion U.S. dollars) to afforestation schemes to the end of 2021, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) announced Wednesday.
The central government spent 233.2 billion yuan on the 415 million mu (27.7 million hectares) of new forests planted from 1999 to 2009, said Wu Lijun, head of afforestation in the SFA, at a press conference in Beijing.
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