Since its inauguration just over a month ago, a remarkable low-carbon ecological park situated within China's Daqing Oilfield has already drawn in an impressive number of nearly 50,000 tourists.

The park's establishment began on November 11, 2020, when PetroChina Daqing Oilfield took the initiative to construct the first-ever carbon-neutral forest, occupying a vast area of 340,000 square metres. With ambitions to expand its environmentally-friendly footprint, the oilfield is currently developing a sprawling carbon-neutral ecological park projected to cover approximately 1,400,000 square metres.

Spearheading the effort, She Hongjun, the representative from Daqing Oilfield Ecological Environment Management and Protection Company, highlighted the park's multifaceted nature. Beyond its essential role in forest carbon sequestration, energy conservation, and emission reduction, the park is also designed to cater to leisure and recreational activities.

STORY: A glimpse of ecological park in China's Daqing Oilfield
DATELINE: July 13, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:20
LOCATION: DAQING, China
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the ecological park
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SHE HONGJUN, Daqing Oilfield Ecological Environment Management and Protection Company

STORYLINE:

A low-carbon ecological park at an oilfield in China's Daqing has received nearly 50,000 tourists since it opened over a month ago.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SHE HONGJUN, Daqing Oilfield Ecological Environment Management and Protection Company
"On November 11, 2020, PetroChina Daqing Oilfield built the first carbon-neutral forest, which is the forest behind me, covering 510 mu (34 hectares). The carbon-neutral ecological park being built now  is planned to cover an area of about 2,100 mu  (140 hectares). It is also a park that not only integrates forest carbon sequestration, energy conservation, and emission reduction, but also provides leisure and recreational activities. The ultimate goal here is to achieve zero carbon emissions. We also implement green electricity programs such as photovoltaic and wind power for illumination, utilizing these technologies to achieve carbon neutrality."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Daqing, China.
(XHTV)