(CFP)

China's forests such as that pictured to the right covered 21.63 percent of the country's land at the end of 2013, a rise of 1.27 percentage points compared to five years ago, a State Forestry Administration survey showed.

Total forest areas grew to 208 million hectares at the end of 2013, up from 195 million hectares five years ago. Growing stock per hectare increased by 3.91 cubic meters to 89.79 cubic meters over the past half a decade, according to a report of the five-year survey released on February 25.