The capital city Lhasa of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is striving to green 45 percent of its urban areas at the end of 2011 by afforesting the outskirts, setting up parks and increasing green belts, the city government announced on Saturday.
The government has set a goal of increasing the afforested land to 2,541 hectares and planting 2,215 hectares of shelter forest at the city's outskirts by 2011, said Doje Cezhug, mayor of Lhasa.
The city plans to set up eight small parks this year and 17 parks in 2008 and plant 536 hectares of shelter forest in the suburbs every year, said Doje.
The main roads, residents areas and vacant lots in the urban areas are enlisted in the city's greening project, which will start this year and last till 2011.
Lhasa is expected to become an "ecological garden city" in China with the project completed in 2011