In the province of China, 170 thousand people will resettle

Forestry Department of the Chinese province of Sichuan announced that in order to create
About 172 thousand people will be relocated to a huge national park for pands from the territory allocated for it.

The plans to create a park with an area of ​​more than 27 square kilometers, which will partially be located in the territories of the three provinces (Sichuan, Gansa and Shanxi), was announced last summer. The project on mass resettlement of citizens affects seven cities and urban districts, as well as 19 counties, Global Times reports.
Where and under what conditions people will be resettled, is not specified.

AsShanghaIst recalls for the next five -year plan in the country, it is planned to create more than 20 national reserves and parks. At the same time, at least four of them will specialize in one of the endangered species of animals - pandas, Asian elephants, Tibetan antelopes and tigers with leopards.

Earlier, the International Radio of China (CRI) reported that China plans to increase the number of pandas in the wild by 2025 by about 18% - up to 2.2 thousand individuals. At the moment, in the China in the wild there are 1864 pandas, another 471 individuals are contained in special breeding centers, RIA Novosti reports.

Recall that last year, due to the construction of the world's largest radio telescope in China, several thousand people were also forcibly relocated .