The pace of grassland ecological restoration obviously speeds up the policy orientation of ecological protection.

Grassland accounts for 41.7% of China's land area and is the main battlefield for China's ecological civilization construction. Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with relevant departments, has fully implemented the grassland ecological compensation policy, accelerated the implementation of major grassland protection and construction projects, launched the implementation of modern grassland animal husbandry promotion actions in southern China, strengthened grassland disaster prevention and mitigation, and significantly accelerated the pace of grassland ecological restoration.

Policy orientation ecological protection. Since 2011, the state has implemented a policy of grassland ecological compensation in grassland pastoral provinces. In 2013, the implementation scope of the policy covered all pastoral areas and semi-pastoral counties in 13 provinces (autonomous regions), benefiting 657 counties (flags, autonomous regions and regiments) in 13 grassland provinces and autonomous regions nationwide, with policy funds reaching 15.946 billion yuan, 1.23 billion mu of grassland prohibited from grazing and recuperating, and 2.61 billion mu of grassland achieving a balance between grass and livestock. In order to implement this year's grassland ecological compensation policy, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Finance, has made efforts to establish rules and regulations to ensure that policy funds are timely implemented to grassland herdsmen and enhance the enthusiasm of herdsmen to protect grasslands and develop production.

Action to promote ecological protection. Grassland in southern China is an important part of grassland, with a total area of more than 1 billion mu. For a long time, the policy system of grassland protection in South China has been weak and lacks systematic support 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 the southern modern grassland animal husbandry promotion campaign in Anhui and other 10 provinces and regions. On the basis of protecting the grassland ecological environment, the supply of beef and mutton will be guaranteed and farmers 'income will be increased. This policy and the northern grassland policy echo each other, initially forming a relatively perfect grassland policy system in China.

The project speeds up ecological protection. The Ministry of Agriculture, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, timely issued the major project plan for grassland protection and construction in 2014, strengthened the pertinence of the implementation of grassland protection and construction projects, focused on the treatment of severely degraded grasslands by the project of returning grazing to grassland, focused on the treatment of desertified grasslands by the Beijing-Tianjin sandstorm source grassland control project, and focused on the treatment of rocky desertification grasslands by the grassland control project in karst areas. In 2014, the central government plans to invest more than 3 billion yuan in the three major projects to build 46.55 million mu of grassland fences, 2.92 million mu of artificial forage land, 79,000 mu of grass seed bases, 78,000 cubic meters of silage cellars, 351,500 cubic meters of grass storage sheds, 16 million mu of re-sown and improved degraded grassland, and 37,524 sets of forage processing machinery to build supporting sheds for 138,400 farmers.

Disaster reduction for ecological protection. The Ministry of Agriculture strengthened early warning and forecasting, organized supervision and inspection, and implemented 24-hour emergency duty during the fire prevention period to ensure the implementation of various fire prevention measures. In the first half of the year, grassland fires were stable throughout the country, and no serious grassland fires occurred. This year, grassland rat pests will occur more frequently in China, grassland pest emergency 24-hour duty has been started, and the prevention and control of grassland rat pests nationwide is being comprehensively promoted. As of July 4, 79,000 people (person-times) of labor force had been invested nationwide, 823 aircraft (person-times) had been dispatched to control grassland pests on 22.12 million mu, an increase of 5.7% over the previous year.

Grassland protection policy effects gradually appear, grassland animal husbandry development mode gradually changed, farmers and herdsmen income steady growth, grassland ecological environment accelerated recovery, grassland ecological environment aggravation deterioration momentum has been contained, some pastoral areas presented the wind blowing grass low cattle and sheep beauty. According to the latest monitoring data of the Ministry of Agriculture, 83% of the natural grasslands in China preferred or were flat compared with perennial grasslands in June 2014.