August 2007

This report prescribes the fundamental principles to observe in sustainable forestry maintenance, or silviculture, and the basic requirements for the Chinese enterprises engaged in realizing sustainable silviculture. The Guide applies to regulating and guiding the whole process of the overseas activities of Chinese enterprises in silviculture, to evaluating the Chinese enterprises’ activities pertinent to silviculture, to guiding the Chinese enterprises in providing non-timber products as well as other services, enabling them to protect and develop the global forest resources in a rational, efficient, and sustainable way.