China’s National Climate Change Programme.

This China's National Climate Change Program, as the country's first global warming policy initiative, is a cross-sectoral policy document for the period of 2007-2010. The strategic goal of China to respond to climate change is to make significant achievements in controlling greenhouse gas emissions, to enhance the capability of continuous adaptation to climate change, to promote climate change related science, technology and R&D to a new level, to remarkably raise public awareness on climate change, and to further strengthen the institutions and mechanisms on climate change.
The Program focuses on energy production and use, agriculture, forestry, and waste. The government will swiftly adopt measures ranging from laws, economy, administration and technology which will combine to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and imbue the country with a flexible approach to climate change. Key areas of actions to control greenhouse gas emissions include: 1.Promoting the adoption of low-emission and high-yield rice varieties, the rice cultivation technique of semi-drought, and scientific irrigation technology; strengthening the R&D on outstanding ruminant animal breeds and large-scale breeding and management techniques; reinforcing the management on animal wastes, wastewater and solid wastes, and promoting biogas utilization to control the growth rate of methane emissions; Increasing the forest coverage rate to 20% and realizing the increase of carbon sink by 50 million tons over the level of 2005 by 2010.; etc. Key measures include: continuously carrying out the policies and measures on afforestation, returning farmland to forest and grassland, and natural forest protection, and basic construction for farmland and other key engineering construction; etc.
To enhance capacity of adaptation to climate change, the key actions are proposed, including: strengthening farmland infrastructure, adjusting cropping systems, selecting and breeding stress-resistant varieties and developing bio-technologies and other adaptive countermeasures, strengthening the natural forest conservation and nature reserve management and continuously implementing key ecological restoration programmes, establish key ecological protection area and enhancing natural ecological restoration, etc.