Forest Resources in Gulu Banhao Township

Gulu Banhao Township is rich in forest resources, with a forest area of nearly 240,000 mu, a forest coverage rate of 47.5%, a standing stock of 400,000 cubic meters, a per capita forest area of more than 0.0 mu and a per capita standing stock of more than 0.0 cubic meters.

In the early 1980s, a group of people of insight led the Banhao Guruba people to plant trees and green their homes. 1990, Banhao Guluba Township was listed as one of the key towns in the second phase of the "Three-North Shelterbelt" project, and the overall planning of "agriculture, animal husbandry, forest and water" was carried out, and the forestry ecological construction pattern with the theme of "protecting fields, grazing and villages" was basically constructed. Guluban Artemisia township started the second venture of ecological construction with forestry as the main body. By the end of 2003, 40,000 mu of shelter forest extension project, 20,000 mu of aerial seeding sand control project, 20,000 mu of sand sealing project, 30,000 mu of returning farmland to forest and grassland, afforestation project in barren hills and artificial sand control project have been completed. The farmland shelterbelt has been built to 2000 mu, and the yellow sand in the past has rolled into an oasis in the sea today. There is the world-famous Huangyangwa Grassland Shelterbelt in the south and the Halabusuqiu Yellow Willow Desert Control Demonstration Zone in the north. Now the township has a forest area of 400,000 mu.

Over the years, the ecological construction in Guluban Artemisia township with forestry as the main body has realized the unity of ecological benefits, economic benefits and social benefits, and the forest by-products and shrub seeds in the township can obtain direct economic benefits of 20 million yuan every year.