East China's Fujian Province is closing quarries and banning tree
cutting to protect the
UNESCO
world heritage status of its
Wuyi
Mountains.
Since 1999, when Wuyi Mountains were accepted as a cultural and
natural heritage protection site by the United Nations
Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Wuyi
municipal government has shifted its focus on industrial and
tourism development to environmental protection.
The local government has recently put forward a scientific
management project to eliminate primitive ways of living in the
mountain areas and build road networks winding the scenic spot with
scientific layouts.
The newly planned road networks are intended to separate tourist
areas from non-tourist areas, where cars and buses park. Then
tourists will travel by electrically operated vehicles, which do
little harm to environment.
The local government has also made it clear that residents in the
area replace wood fuel with such clean energies as solar energy and
marsh gas.
(Xinhua News
Agency November 18, 2001)