According to preliminary counts, China has 212 categories of forests, 36 bamboo forests, 113 shrublands, 77 meadows, 37 marshlands, 55 steppes, 52 deserts, 17 alpine tundra and cushion-like and talus vegetation, making a total of 599 categories. There is no statistical data concerned with the types of freshwater and marine ecosystems.

Forest Biodiversity