《保护生态环境行动》为"国情故事"系列丛书之一，简要介绍了中国保护生态环境所采取的行动。中国地域辽阔，国土总面积约960万平方公里，仅次于俄罗斯和加拿大，居世界第三位。中国气候、地形自然条件复杂，人口众多，土地和其他资源相对稀少，这都增加了生态环境的保护和改善的难度。1978年改革开放以来，中国政府采取了一系列措施，加大生态环境保护与建设力度。一些重要生态系统、重点地区的生态环境得到了有效保护和改善，生物多样性得到有效保护，众多珍稀动植物和濒危物种的生存状况得到极大改观。中国在开采资源时注重环境治理和生态恢复，并采取一系列措施保护和改善人居环境。（Protecting China's Ecological Environment is one of the Book Series of China's National Conditions and provides a brief introduction to China's actions to protect its ecological environment. China has a vast area of about 9.6 million square kilometres and ranks No. 3, next only to Russia and Canada, in the world. Having complex climatic, topographic and natural conditions and scarce arable land area, it faces a bigger challenge in environ-mental protection. Since the opening-up and reform in1978, the government has put great stress on environ-mental protection and engineering. This has resulted in significant improvement to the ecological environment in key regions as also in biodiversity. Numerous rare animals and plants as well as endangered species have been brought under protection. China has taken a series of measures to protect and improve the living environment in the process of resource exploitation.）