ABSTRACT
Looking at the international environment, since the onset of the Southeast Asian financial crisis in mid 1997, the malaise has spread its influence from Asia to Latin America, and from North America to Europe, affecting every corner of the globe. The pace of the world’s economic growth has slowed down in the midst of the adverse situation. The pace of the industrialization has accelerated noticeably since the mid 1980s. However, due to blind investments and duplicated construction, excess production capacity was created. Fixed asset investment used to be the major means of stimulating economic growth. However, with the gradual deepening transformation toward a market economy, the constraining effect of efficiency on the increase of investment is becoming more conspicuous. To improve the rural natural environment, to prevent the loss of topsoil, especially in environmentally disastrous areas, we need more large-scale education and massive tree planting and soil management.
