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Xinhua Headlines: From logging to guardianship: How China protects green source of its "mother river"
Over the past two decades, 115,000 mu (about 7,667 hectares) of afforestation has been completed and 220,000 mu (about 14,667 hectares) of existing forest has been tended in the Markog River forest area. The forest coverage rate has risen from 51 percent during the logging era to 69.58 percent.
