China is playing its part in the conservation of the world’s forests through the recycling of wastepaper, officials said yesterday in Beijing.
“China imports tons of wastepaper each year to be used for paper-making and paperboard products,” Zhu Lieke, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration, said.
The country also produces many packaging materials to be used at home and abroad.
In this way, China has made “a supreme” contribution to global timber conservation, Zhu said at a news conference.
Zhu appealed to the media to pay equal attention to China’s wastepaper processing, as it does to the country’s timber imports. 
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