An international team has identified two areas in the country where the scale of carbon dioxide absorption by new forests has been underestimated.

 

一个国际研究团队发现在中国两个地区的新造树林对二氧化碳的吸收程度被低估了。

 

Taken together, these areas account for a little over 35% of China's entire land carbon "sink", the group says.

 

The two previously¹ under-appreciated carbon sink areas are centred on China's southwest, in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi; and its northeast, particularly Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces.

 

These provinces have established a pattern of rapid afforestation of progressively larger regions, with provincial² forest areas increasing by between 0.04 million and 0.44 million hectares per year over the past 10 to 15 years.

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