2000年末“九五”行将结束之际,本刊曾以《“九五”林业凸显生态主题》一文,回顾了“九五”期间的中国林业建设。其时,1998年夏季长江流域特大洪灾、2000年春季华北地区特大沙尘暴等一系列全局性生态灾难事件,使生态逐渐成为林业的主题。在此期间,国务院出台的《全国生态环境建 At the end of the Ninth Five-Year Plan period in late 2000, we published a paper entitled “The 9th Five-Year Plan for Forestry Highlighting Ecological Themes” and reviewed the development of China’s forestry during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period. At that time, a series of global ecological catastrophes such as the extraordinary floods in the Yangtze River Basin in the summer of 1998 and the especially large dust storms in the North China in the spring of 2000 made the ecology gradually become the theme of forestry. During this period, the State Council promulgated the "National Ecological Environment Construction