Xu Zhaojun

Mayor of Yichun City of Heilongjiang Province and Director of Yichun Forestry Administration

Xu spearheaded the recently implemented forestry reforms, which effectively contracts out the ownership of state-owned forests to individuals. The reforms put the spotlight on Yichun City as the country’s pilot scheme of building forestry resources-based cities.

(China.org.cn, January 29, 2006)