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In the spirit of the trend toward opening and reforming China, the State Forestry Administration has taken advantage of the opportunity to improve forest parks and develop forest-based ecotourism. The State Forestry Administration has experienced great success in a short time. By 1997, the State Forestry Administration had built 874 forest parks, with a total area of 7. 48×106 hm2. More than 50 000 000 tourists visited the parks each year. The forest parks have become the new focus of forest-based ecotourism in China. This success demonstrated that the use of forest resources and the development of tourism had moved into a new period. To assure the healthy growth of forest-based ecotourism in China, based on the theory of sustainable development, we have made several suggestions about how to improve forest parks and develop forest-based ecotourism. Our recommendations are grounded in the principles of resource protection, moderate exports of forest products and recognition of the special character of individual park.
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Zhang Jie, female, born in March 1966, lecturer, College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, P. R. China.
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Jie, Z., Kezun, Z. & Guiqin, J. Forest parks and sustainable development of ecotourism in China. Journal of Forestry Research 11, 63–68 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855501
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