The purpose of the project is to build China's enhanced ability to increase ecosystem carbon stocks through the development of technical and human resources that will result in more informed and effective land-use, forest management, and policy making.

The expected outcomes are:

1. Chinese institutions will have increased capacity to estimate
spatially explicit, long-term carbon dynamics for China's
forests and forestry related activities;
2.

Chinese institutions will have increased capacity to assess
forestry management
methods to enhance carbon
sequestration;

3. Chinese governments, institutions, local and regional communities will have increased capacity to undertake integrated assessments of the economic, environmental and social impacts of land use
decisions designed to enhance carbon sequestration