The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Friday released a bulletin showcasing advances in the forestry sector in 2020 to mark China's Tree-Planting Day.
As a rural blueprint unveiled annually, this year's document urged retaining a "red line" of 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares) of arable land and preventing the use of arable land for non-farming purposes.
The monkey face recognition technology aims to establish an identity information database of golden monkeys in the Qinling Mountains by extracting the animals' facial features.
The phase-3 studies of Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac's inactive virus vaccine CoronaVac were launched in Turkey on Sept. 14. No major symptoms were detected during CoronaVac's trials in Turkey.
Thanks to generations of protection efforts, the population of golden snub-nosed monkeys has risen from 1,280 to 1,470.