And the ten disastrous years of the Cultural Revolution were a Dark Ages for China's forests, which, in the absence of any management authority whatever, were hacked and burned indiscriminately.
不久，文化大革命爆發，中國進入黑暗的十年，森林無人管理，燒山、濫伐沒有限制，各地林場也進入「黑暗時期」。