The area and intensity of my country's soil and soil loss continue to maintain "double drop"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 27 (Reporter Liu Shiping) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources on the 27th that the dynamic monitoring of soil and soil loss across the country showed that in 2021, my country continued to maintain the area and intensity of soil and soil loss "double decline", water erosion and wind erosion "double decrease" The situation, soil and soil loss continues to improve, and the ecological environment continues to improve.

The dynamic monitoring of the national soil and soil loss in 2021, completed by the Ministry of Water Resources, showed that the area of ​​soil and soil loss in 2021 was 2.6742 million square kilometers, a decrease of 18,500 square kilometers from 2020, a decrease of 0.69%.

Among the intensity levels of soil and soil loss area, the area of ​​mild, moderate, strong, and above the level of erosion is 1.7228 million, 445,200, and 506,200 square kilometers, respectively, of which the proportion of strong and above levels accounted for the area of ​​soil and soil loss in the country to 18.93%. , Compared with 0.55 percentage points in 2020.

Monitoring shows that the area and intensity of my country's soil and soil loss have continued to maintain a "double drop" in recent years. The area of ​​soil and soil loss in 2020 was 26.927 million square kilometers, a decrease of 18,100 square kilometers from 2019. The area of ​​mild, moderate, strong, and above the level of corrosion was 17.051 million, 463,300, and 524,600 square kilometers, respectively, and the proportion of high -intensity soil loss area declined. Among the national soil and soil loss area, the area of ​​hydropower erosion was 1.1.058 million square kilometers, accounting for 41.35%of the total water and soil loss area, a decrease of 14,200 square kilometers from 2020, and a decrease of 1.27%. The total area of ​​58.65%decreased by 0.43 million square kilometers compared with 2020, a decrease of 0.27%.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Conservancy said that during the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" and one period of the future, the Ministry of Water Conservancy will work together to improve the ecological environment, protect the cultivated land resources, and help rural revitalization. Combining Boxing: Putting human disturbances as the focus of "control", strictly controlling people for soil and soil loss; the focus of "reduction" of forest and grassland as the area of ​​water and soil loss, strengthening protection and repair; "And the main battlefield of key governance. We will comprehensively strengthen the management of the watershed, promote the governance of landscapes, forests, lakes and sand systems, and continuously improve the scientific prevention level of soil and soil loss.

[Editor in charge: Jiao Peng]

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