THE FOREST RESOURCES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL IN THE BEIJING-QINHUANGDAO REGION
京—秦地区的森林资源及其发展潜力

This paper is a part of the results of applying Chinese Territory Scatellite (CTS) materials to investigate forest resources in the Beijing-Qinhuangdao region. It has computed and analysed the distribution areas and main features of every type of forest resources and pointed out their development pontential. Statistics tell that the total area of forests is about 616 thousand hectares and the cover degree is about 11%. The forests are mostly distributed on mountains. But there are many lands suitable for afforestation. Such lands reach 862 thousand hectares and are distributed mainly on lower hills and in plains. The development potential is rather high as it may increase the cover degree of forests by more than 10% and their productivity by about 4-5 times.