THE REFORESTATION MOVEMENT IN CHINA 



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The magnitude of the task in China, the appalHng 

 amount of work which should be done, need not prevent 

 a beginning being made, if only on a small scale, for 

 while flood prevention and to a lesser extent the fixation 

 of wind-blown earth require for best success that opera- 

 tions should be undertaken and carried through on a 

 large scale, the most pressing need of all that of raising 

 a cheap and abundant supply of fuel and timber can be 

 taken up on any scale, large or small, according to the 

 available means. 



Through the energy, perseverance and skill of Prof. 

 Joseph ISailie, cordially and actively supported by influ- 

 ential Chinese and by the University of Nanking, an 

 admirable beginning has already been made on the slopes 

 of Purple Mountain, just outside the walls of Nanking, 

 and a School of Forestry has been opened at Nanking. 

 There is every reason to expect that a high degree of 

 success will continue to attend these eflforts and that they 

 will, as they should, serve as an object lesson and as an 

 encouragement for the inauguration and wide extension 

 of similar projects. 



At the invitation of the University of Nanking, and 

 through the courtesy of the Governor-General of the 

 Philippines, the writer has recently been given an oppor- 



tunity to visit the newly established Forest School in the 

 University of Nanking and to study the reforestation 

 work on Purple Mountain. Also, through the courtesy 

 of Governor flan of Anhwei Province, facilities were 

 afl^orded a party, of which the writer had the good for- 

 tune to be a member, to make careful studies of many 

 of the hills and mountains in the provinces to determine 

 the feasibility of forest planting, and if conditions should 

 prove favorable, to recommend the general lines on which 

 such work could be undertaken with best chances for full 

 success. 



To the writer at least the most astonishing fact revealed 

 by these investigations is the great extent of excellent 

 land lying waste on hill and mountain. In many places 

 the population is overcrowded and desperately poor, yet 

 in the immediate vicinity, rising perhaps from the very 

 outskirts of the overcrowded towns and villages, are 

 fertile but unused hills, excellently suited for forest 

 growth. In fact, a considerable portion of these huge 

 waste areas is covered with soil too good for forest 

 growth not that forest would not grow excellently in 

 such situations, but that as the soil and configuration are 

 suited for fruit growing or even for the intensive culti- 

 vation of agricultural crops, it should be put to these 



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First Row (Seated) Reading from Left to Right 1. Su Si-tai, President of Nanking Chamber of Commerce 

 .Mines. 3. Dr. .Macklin, University of .Nanking. 4. Ilsti Ch'ien, Commissioner of Industry of K 



of Kiangsu. 8. Chui Lai-chih, formerly Vice-President of Kiangsu Provincial Assembly, President of Nanking Branch Colonization Asso. 

 ciation. 7. Wei thia-htia, President of Charitable Associations of Kiangsn, Auditor of Accounts of Colonization Association. 8. Chin Ting, 

 Associated Director of Ilsia Kuan Chamber of Commerce. 



viaugsu. 



VVu Chia-hsiu, President of Nitrate 

 Han Kuo-chun, Civil (Governor 



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'^'''''?i,l?2*p'^'^j'''r*W t"hen Tu-hsiu, Secretary in Civil Governor's Office. 2. T'ang Ch'ing-shen, Proctor of Law School. .!. Chung Fu- 

 cmng, President of Law School of Kiangsu. 4. Kan Hung, Vice-President of Chamber of Commerce. ;1. Wang Hsi-hsiang. Treasurer of 

 omce for Road Building, Treasurer of Colonization Association. . Chang Tsen-pi, <>ief Auditor for Office of Road Building, Secretary 



lV,,-ri "iff " r^jj'''r'"r": /^ ''"''"* '"'"'" '^"""' ' Agricultural Station of Colonization Association. 8. Ilsia Ren-hsiu, Secretary of 

 Internal Atfairs, (Jfhce of Civil Governor. 



