Yichun; the Forest Capital that Felled 270 Million Cubic Metres and Then Stopped

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Yichun supplied 270 million cubic metres of timber to the country over six decades of logging, then stopped felling natural forest in 2013. 83.8 percent of its land is now under forest, more than three times the national average.

伊春六十多年的森林开发,为国家提供了二点七亿立方米木材,二零一三年全面停止天然林商业性采伐;如今全市森林覆盖率达百分之八十三点八,是全国平均水平的三倍多。

When development began in 1948, Yichun had 1.08 million hectares of natural Korean pine forest, holding 150 million cubic metres of timber. After decades of depletion, its Korean pine forest has recovered to about 300,000 hectares; 60 percent of the world’s Korean pine is in China, and more than half of China’s is in Yichun.

一九四八年开发之初,伊春境内有天然红松林一百零八万公顷,蓄积一点五亿立方米。经过数十年的采伐与资源消耗,如今红松林面积已恢复至约三十万公顷;世界上百分之六十的红松在中国,中国一半以上的红松在伊春。

By 1998, when the national natural forest protection programme began, harvestable resources were 98 percent below their level at the start of development, and 12 of the 17 forestry bureaus had nothing left to cut.

到一九九八年国家实施天然林保护工程时,伊春的可采森林资源比开发初期减少了百分之九十八,十七个林业局中有十二个已经无林可采。

After the Last Felling
最后一次砍伐之后

Yichun stopped commercial felling of natural forest in 2013, and in 2014 its GDP fell 9 percent and its local revenue 17.4 percent, according to Xinhua. Standing timber has since risen from 260 million to 380 million cubic metres, growing by more than 10 million a year, and 46.4 percent of the city’s land is under an ecological protection red line, according to Qiushi and Xinhua.

据新华社报道,伊春二零一三年全面停止天然林商业性采伐,二零一四年全市GDP同比下降百分之九,地方财政收入下降百分之十七点四。据《求是》和新华社报道,此后活立木蓄积从停伐前的二点六亿立方米增加到三点八亿立方米,每年净增一千万立方米以上,生态保护红线面积占市域总面积的百分之四十六点四。

Yichun has also passed China’s first regulation protecting Korean pine and set up 23 nature reserves, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

据国家林业和草原局报道,伊春颁布了全国首部《红松保护条例》,并建有二十三个自然保护区。

Steel, Food and Tourists
钢铁、食品与游客

Wood processing and metallurgy were Yichun’s industrial mainstays in 2010. By 2024 the secondary sector was ¥7.01 billion, 18.9 percent of GDP, with above-scale industrial value added down 4.0 percent, manufacturing down 10.4 percent and furniture down 23.5 percent, according to the city’s statistical communiqué. The city government lists steel, forest food, wood processing and pharmaceuticals as its key industries.

二零一零年,木材加工和冶金是伊春工业的支柱。伊春市统计公报显示,二零二四年全市第二产业增加值七十点一亿元,占GDP的百分之十八点九,规模以上工业增加值下降百分之四点零,制造业下降百分之十点四,家具制造业下降百分之二十三点五。据伊春市政府介绍,钢铁、森林食品、林木加工和医药是全市的重点产业。

According to the same communiqué, GDP was ¥37.05 billion in 2024, up 2.1 percent, with the primary sector at 33.8 percent, the secondary at 18.9 percent and services at 47.3 percent. Tourism brought 23.99 million visits, up 53 percent, and ¥20.12 billion in spending, up 76.2 percent. In 2025 visits rose 36 percent and spending 39 percent, according to the city government’s plan report.

同一份公报显示,二零二四年全市GDP为三百七十点五亿元,增长百分之二点一,第一产业占百分之三十三点八,第二产业占百分之十八点九,第三产业占百分之四十七点三;全年接待游客二千三百九十八点七万人次,增长百分之五十三,旅游花费二百零一点二亿元,增长百分之七十六点二。据市政府的计划执行情况报告,二零二五年接待游客数量和旅游花费分别增长百分之三十六和百分之三十九。

The permanent population was 810,000 at the end of 2024, down from 878,881 at the 2020 census, according to the communiqué and census.

据统计公报和人口普查数据,伊春二零二四年末常住人口为八十一万人,二零二零年人口普查时为八十七万八千八百八十一人。

Yichun’s 30-year average temperature is 1.2°C, and 62.3 percent of its rain falls from June to August, when the average temperature is close to 22°C, according to the Heilongjiang Meteorological Bureau.

据黑龙江省气象局介绍,伊春近三十年年平均气温为一点二摄氏度,百分之六十二点三的降水集中在六至八月,夏季平均气温接近二十二摄氏度。

The Harbin–Yichun high-speed line opened on 28 September 2026, with Yichun West the highest-latitude high-speed station built in China; the fastest trains reach Harbin in 1 hour 46 minutes, against about 7 hours before, according to the Harbin government and China News Service.

据哈尔滨市人民政府和中国新闻网报道,哈伊高铁于二零二六年九月二十八日开通,伊春西站是我国目前建成的纬度最高的高铁车站;从伊春西站到哈尔滨最快一小时四十六分钟,此前需要七小时左右。

At Wuying National Forest Park, where the best-preserved Korean pine forest stands, trees more than a century old are so wide that one person’s arms reach less than halfway round, according to Xinhua.

据新华社报道,在红松原始林保存最完好的五营国家森林公园,上百年树龄的红松粗得一个人环抱也只能抱住树体的一小半。

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