◎Our flora and fauna resources

In 2018, the total area of forest in Tangshan was about 510,400 hectares, with a forest coverage rate of 37.9 percent, ranking the fifth among cities in the province. In particular, the northern ecological public-welfare forest, comprising mainly Chinese pine, covered 100,000 hectares; the ecological, fast-growing and high-yield forest, mainly poplar, covered 240,000 hectares; fruit trees covered 170,000 hectares. The city's annual total output of nuts and fruits such as Chinese chestnuts, walnuts, apples, and peaches was about 1.7 million tons, with an output value of 9.3 billion yuan. There were nine forest farms in the city, and seven forest parks above the provincial level such as the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty and the Jiufeng Mountain. As the largest wetland city in Hebei Province, Tangshan had a total wetland area of about 250,000 hectares, accounting for nearly 26 percent of the province's total wetland area, and about 18 percent of Tangshan's total area. The city has a number of wetland parks and wetland nature reserves such as Nanhu National Wetland Park, Caofeidian Provincial Wetland and Bird Nature Reserve. There were 958 species of wild plants and more than 530 species of wild animals in the city. The city boasted 91 species of animals under key provincial and national protection, including 18 species of national first-class protected animals, 73 species of national second-class protected animals and provincial key protected animals.(https://www.daowen.com)