The pace of grassland ecological restoration accelerated obviously in the first half of the year.

Grassland accounts for 41.7% of China's land area, and it is the main battlefield for the construction of ecological civilization in China. Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with relevant departments, has comprehensively implemented the policy of replenishing grassland ecological awards, accelerated the implementation of major projects for grassland protection and construction, launched actions to promote modern grassland animal husbandry in the south, and strengthened grassland disaster prevention and reduction. the pace of grassland ecological restoration has been significantly accelerated.

Policy orientation, ecological protection. Since 2011, the state has implemented the grassland ecological supplement policy in grassland pastoral provinces. In 2013, the policy has been implemented in all pastoral areas and semi-pastoral counties in 13 provinces (autonomous regions), benefiting 657 counties (banners, districts and regiment farms) in 13 grassland provinces and regions across the country, with policy funds reaching 15.946 billion yuan. 1.23 billion mu of grasslands across the country have been banned from grazing and recuperation, and 2.61 billion mu of grasslands have achieved grass-livestock balance. In order to implement this year's policy of grassland ecological compensation, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Finance, has made great efforts to establish rules and regulations to ensure that policy funds are timely implemented to grassland herdsmen, so as to enhance the enthusiasm of the broad masses of herdsmen in protecting grasslands and developing production.

Action to promote ecological protection. The southern grassland is an important part of the grassland in China, with a total area of more than 1 billion mu. For a long time, the policy system of grassland protection in southern China is weak and lack of systematic supporting policies. Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance have issued a set of policies and measures to protect and build grasslands in the south and promote the development of grassland animal husbandry. Recently, the central government has allocated 300 million yuan of special funds to launch a campaign to promote modern grassland animal husbandry in southern China in 10 provinces and regions, including Anhui, to ensure the supply of beef and mutton and increase farmers' income on the basis of protecting the ecological environment of grasslands. This policy echoes with the northern grassland policy and initially forms a relatively perfect grassland policy system in our country.

The project will speed up ecological protection. The Ministry of Agriculture, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, promptly issued a major project plan for grassland protection and construction in 2014, strengthened the implementation of grassland protection and construction projects, and focused on the control of seriously degraded grasslands by the project of returning grazing to grasslands. Beijing-Tianjin Wind and Sand Source grassland Control Project focuses on desertified grasslands, and grassland control projects in karst areas focus on rocky desertification grasslands. In 2014, the three major projects plan to invest more than 3 billion yuan in central funds to build 46.55 million mu of grassland fences, 2.92 million mu of artificial forage grasslands, 79000 mu of grass seed bases, 78000 cubic meters of silage cellars, 351500 cubic meters of grass storage sheds, 16 million mu of replanting and improving degraded grasslands, and 37524 sets of forage processing machinery to build supporting sheds for 138,400 farmers.

Disaster reduction promotes ecological protection. There are many combustibles in the grassland, and the situation of fire prevention is very serious. The Ministry of Agriculture strengthens early warning and forecasting, organizes supervision and inspection, and implements 24-hour emergency duty during the fire prevention period to ensure that all fire prevention measures are implemented. In the first half of the year, grassland fires across the country were stable, and there were no major grassland fires. This year, more attention will be paid to the occurrence of rodent and pest pests in grasslands across the country, the 24-hour emergency duty in grasslands has been launched, and the work of rodent and pest control in grasslands across the country is being promoted in an all-round way. As of July 4, the country had invested a total of 79000 workers (times), dispatched 823 aircraft (times), and controlled 22.12 million mu of grassland pests, an increase of 5.7 percent over the previous year.

The effect of grassland protection policy has gradually emerged, the development mode of grassland animal husbandry has gradually changed, the income of farmers and herdsmen has increased steadily, the recovery of grassland ecological environment has been accelerated, and the trend of aggravation and deterioration of grassland ecological environment has been curbed. Some pastoral areas show the beauty of seeing cattle and sheep in the wind. According to the latest monitoring data from the Ministry of Agriculture, 83% of the country's natural grasslands preferred or remained the same in June 2014 compared with the year-round.