This policy sets out several targets, including:
- Forest coverage to reach 24.1% (ca. 230.53 million hectare) with forest stock volume of 19 billion cubic meters.
- Commercial harvest over natural forest to be prohibited, preserving 1.944 billion mu of forests (129.6 million hectares).
- Grassland vegetation cover to reach 57% and protection rate of wetland to reach 55%.
Increase of nature reserve areas to 18% of national land area, and transformation of decertified land by 0.1 billion mu (6.67 million hectares).