| Sinar Mas Group APP China Forestry Management |
Sinar Mas Group APP adheres to the management principle of Afforestation To Benefit Mother Nature, Pulp And Paper Innovation To Benefit Mankind and established a ial forestry management unit to promote the cultivation of forests in order to support the sustainable development of forest-pulp-paper integration. The headquarters of APP China Forestry Management is based in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province.
 Since the beginning of 1990s, while investing in building paper factories in China, Sinar Mas Group APP also puts huge funds into developing high-growth forest plantations with eucalypts as the main ies. APP actively explored and implemented new methods of achieving harmony between paper production and environment protection. APP believes that with each additional plantation cultivated, the pressure on natural forests will be reduced, only then can the conflict between supply and demand of wood as a raw material for paper be alleviated. Afforestation will address the problem of decreasing natural forests in the world.
Up to June 2006, Sinar Mas Group APP had invested over RMB 3 billion in China to complete plantations of about 4.3 million mu in 8 provinces and autonomous regions of China including Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, and Yunnan of China.
Adhering to the principle of plantations benefit nature; pulp and paper making benefits the people, APP is committed to environmental protection and scientific cultivation while cultivating artificial fertile paper plantation. It is also active in scientific research and cooperation with plantation research institutes and related universities, and colleges both at home and abroad to form a green industry. 5 plantation companies under APP have received the ISO 14001 international environmental protection management system certification in 2001. They are the first domestic group to be awarded the ISO 14001 certificate. Currently, the forestry companies under APP are trying to attain FSC international Forest System certification.
APPs large-scale cultivation practices in China have made it the pioneer in paper plantation, pulp and paper integration, making a great contribution to integrated construction in China.
Status of Afforestation in China
In Hainan, APP has cultivated over 1.05 million mu of plantation and established a nursery in Dingan County, Hainan province, which is one  of the most modern, large-scale, single seed plantation centers in China. The advanced techniques and equipment employed for biological seed plantation, rapid vegetative propagation and mycorrhiza, water culture, soil nutrient analysis in the nursery center has reached world scientific standards.
In Guangxi, the forestation area is over 1.11 million mu, and a nursery production base covering 1000 mu with an annual output of 120 million nursery stocks. Guangxi Jingui Forestry Co., Ltd and Guangxi Jinqin High-yielding Forest Co., Ltd have passed the certification of DNV in October 2001 and are among the first group of forestry enterprises to obtain ISO-14001 certificates in China.
In Guangdong, the forestation area is 540,000 mu. Among them, Jinqingyuan High-yielding Forest Base Co., Ltd. and Jinshaoguan No. 1 High-yielding Forest (Paper) Base Co., Ltd having achieved ISO14001 environment protection certification in October 2001.
In Yunnan, the plantation area is around 800,000 mu with 4 nursery centers of about 1000 mu providing an annual output of about 100 million of fast-growth seedlings such as eucalypt, P. Kesiya Simao, birch and alnus nepalensis.
In addition, APP also has completed plantations of more than 450,000 mu in Henan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Liaoning and has established several nursery and research bases for indigenous and mixed plant ies. |
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