[Ministry of Natural Resources: China has fully completed the delineation of the red line for ecological protection] the Ministry of Natural Resources announced today (22 April) that the delineation of the red line for ecological protection in China has been fully completed. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, China has comprehensively completed the demarcation of the national red line for ecological protection for the first time. The red line of ecological protection is mainly distributed in the ecological areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the key ecological areas of the Yellow River, the key ecological areas of the Yangtze River, the northeast forest belt, the northern sand prevention belt, the southern hilly and mountainous areas, and the coastal zone. Zhang Bing, director of the Land and Space Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said that after the delineation, the national ecological protection red line covers a land area of no less than 3.15 million square kilometers, of which the land ecological protection red line covers an area of no less than 3 million square kilometers, and the marine ecological protection red line is no less than 150000 square kilometers.