Strengthening Urban Forest Development Improving Urban Ecological Environment

1 IMPROVEMENT OFURBANECOLOGICALENVIRONMENT:NATURAL TREND OFURBANDEVELOPMENT1.1 Accelerated Urbanization’s Requirements forImprovement of Urban Ecological EnvironmentPresently, the ecological and environmentaldevelopment in China’s cities does not match up withthe rapid urbanization. The number and the scale ofcities/towns are rapidly increasing, making the long-existed urban environmental problems increasinglyprominent. This imposes new requirements forimprovem…

Strengthening Urban Forest Development Improving Urban Ecological Environment

Since the reform and opening up, urban development in China has entered a period of rapid progress. While making significant achievements, urban environmental problems such asair pollution, heat- island effects, water loss and soil erosion have become increasingly prominent. To speed up the process of urbanization in China, new challenges have been imposed on urban forestdevelopment, urban environment protection and ecological urban development. Aimed at ecological and environment problems existing in urban developmentin China, summarizing Chinese experiencesandlearning from othercountries, scientifically planning urban forest to promote urban ecological development, improving urban forest ecosystem to assure urban ecological safety, carrying on forest cultureto develop urban ecological civilization, have becomethe main tasks and direction for urban forest development in China.