National park will bolster local
economy while providing animals with unbroken habitat
Associated Press in Beijing
Thu 8 Mar
2018 12.03 GMTLast modified on Thu 8 Mar 2018 22.00 GMT
The Bank of China has
pledged at least 10bn yuan (£1.1bn) to create a vast panda conservation park in
south-west Sichuan province, the Chinese forestry ministry has said.
The Sichuan branch of the central
bank signed an agreement with the provincial government to finance the vast
national park’s construction by 2023. The park aims to bolster the local
economy while providing the endangered animals with an unbroken range in which
they can meet and mate with other pandas in order to enrich their gene pool.
The ministry said the park will
measure 2m hectares (5m acres), making it more than twice the size of
Yellowstone national park in the US.
Zhang Weichao, a Sichuan official
involved in the park planning, told the state-run China Daily the agreement
would help alleviate poverty among the 170,000 people living within the
project’s proposed territory.
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