参考答案：
The carbon discharge of a three-member Chinese family, on an average，was 2.7 tons in
2006. Now, this feature has jumped to 3.5 tons. In such large cities as Beijing, Shanghai and
Guangzhou, the average household carbon emissions have approached 10 tons. Carbon sink
refers to the capacity of forests to absorb and store carbon dioxide. Forests, as the largest
carbon sinks in the continental ecological system, play a very important and unique role in
lowering the concentration of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and slowing down global
climate warming.
According to statistics, each person only needs to plant three trees a year to absorb his
carbon dioxide emissions during the same period. China is developing carbon sink forest
projects for public participation, such as the giant panda carbon sink forest project to be
built in the giant panda habitat in Sichuan Province. Some large carbon dioxide discharging
companies have taken actions by building more than 600,000 hectares of carbon sink forests
in over a dozen provinces and autonomous regions throughout the country. China will
promote actions like purchasing carbon sinks and planting carbon sink trees to speed up
afforestation and increase forests' capacity as carbon sinks.
