Since last winter, smog【小题1】(occur) several times, which has done great harm to us. To solve the problem, the Chinese leaders in Beijing have attached great importance【小题2】protecting the environment. They are taking big steps to deal with climate change and pollution,【小题3】some of China’s cities are acting too.

Nanjing, the capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu Province, like many major cities in China, is trying to improve the situation by【小题4】(get) a Vertical Forest, a set of two green residential towers that will make the city more【小题5】   (appeal) and will provide residents and visitors with fresh air. This brilliant idea【小题6】(put) forward by Stefano Boeri Architetti.【小题7】architect based in Milan, Italy. And in 2014 the first Vertical Forest【小题8】(build) in Asia, and it will host a total of 1,100 trees from 23 local species and 2,500 shrubs with the capabilities of providing around 25 tons of CO₂ absorption each year and【小题9】(possible) producing 132 pounds of oxygen each day. Other Chinese major cities, like Chongqing and Shanghai, are reported to be planning to build up similar green【小题10】   (structure).

China will build the world’s largest national park system, and a layout plan will be released soon. The plan is being drafted 【小题1】 (meet) the requirements of building a system with the largest scale of protection, the most diverse geographical features and the highest conservation value in the world. Under the plan, which 【小题2】 (launch) by the administration in 2019, about 50 areas have been selected as candidates for national parks. The parks are expected to cover 10 percent of the 【小题3】 (country) land area and preserve more than 80 percent of the key national 【小题4】 (protect) wild plant and animal species. In October, China announced its first group of five national parks, covering 【小题5】 total land area of more than 230,000 square kilometers. Since their establishment, the parks 【小题6】 (make) achievements in environmental and species protection. “At the same time, a new group of national parks are being established 【小题7】 an orderly manner and will be put into use as soon as possible,” emphasized Li, 【小题8】 was the National Forestry and Grassland Administration official. He also said at the news conference on Monday China’s planted forest conservation area has reached 87.6 million hectares, 【小题9】 (rank) No.1 in the world. “China is also one of the 12 countries with the 【小题10】 (rich) biodiversity in the world,” he added.

According to the fifth Global Biodiversity Outlook report, biodiversity is declining 【小题1】 an alarming rate. As the most biodiverse province in China, southwestern Yunnan is sharing 【小题2】 (it)conservation strategy on the international stage.

Seventeen years after the province first 【小题3】 (introduce)the concept of Species with Extremely Small Populations(SESP), Yunnan showcased the achievements in conservation on Dec 16 at a side event of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties(COP15)to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada.

“We will forever lose the opportunity for future development that some species bring if they go extinction,” says Yang Hua, 【小题4】 worker with the provincial forestry and grassland administration.

SESP, 【小题5】 (bring)forward by the province in 2005, was a concept to represent species   【小题6】 were found to be restricted in their geographic distribution and showed weak population 【小题7】 (grow).

Ever since then, the province’s conservation efforts 【小题8】 (help) the population of Asian elephants reach around 360, and that of black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys is now 3, 800.

Sun Weibang, director of the Kunming Botanical Garden, under the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 【小题9】 (recent) said that, during a decade of continuous development, Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations(PSESP) was applied as a model 【小题10】 (conserve)native plants in countries such as Italy, Russia, Mexico, and Iraq.