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China has completed work on a nationwide ecological protection "red line" aimed at preserving its ecosystems and reversing some of the damage from rapid urbanisation and industrial growth, a government official said on Thursday .
The lines have now been fully decided, with roughly three million square kilometres of land - about 30 per cent of China's total - as well as 150,000 square km of marine areas, all of which is under state surveillance, Wang Zhibin, head of the nature protection office at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment , told a briefing in Beijing.
The amount of land protected is in accord with a global biodiversity pact agreed in Montreal late last year to protect 30 per cent of the world's total land and sea by 2030. Wang told reporters that biodiversity protection efforts were still under "a lot of pressure", mainly because of supervision and enforcement gaps, but also because of vulnerability to climate change.
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