Information from forestry departments in Hunan Province says that this year's task of preventing and controlling forest insect damages is still very challenging and the damage is inclined to expand.

Its forecast indicates that the area that would be hit by forest insects would amount to 260, 000 hectares. The main characters are the damages caused by a kind of pine insect and other dangerous insects this year.
It was saying that near 20,000 hectares of forests in over 20 counties died due to insect invasions.