Abstract:Many practices dealing with restoration of degraded ecosystems have been conducted around the world since 1920s.However, such practices came to being only after 1980s in China. Although a number of measures have been applied on various degraded ecosystems, methods used in China mainly focus on vegetation establishment while neglected the ability of natural process. Meanwhile, less attention had been paid to the production and livelihood requirements of the local people. Therefore, it is hard to maintain the...