President plants for the future
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping urged development of the country’s forestry while attending a voluntary tree planting activity in Beijing yesterday.
Xi visited an afforestation site in Beijing’s Daxing District and planted six saplings of different varieties at the site.
Other top leaders, including Premier Li Keqiang, also attended the event.
Noting that the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020) marks an important stage in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and in China’s ecological protection drive, the president stressed forestry development as a significant measure to fulfill these goals.
He called on officials at all levels to take the lead in voluntary tree planting campaigns to promote new development concepts with their own practices.
He also called for proper management of planted trees to make the environment greener and more beautiful.
Xi called for an altruistic and down-to-earth spirit for such activities, citing the Chinese proverb “people plant trees so their offspring can enjoy the shade.”
Situated in Xihongmen township in Beijing’s southern Daxing District, the area where the leaders planted trees were once industrial sites.
Thanks to the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei which requires the capital city to diversify its non-capital functions, the area has been reshaped into a park following economic restructuring.
Xi told officials, volunteers and children present that Chairman Mao Zedong had issued a call for “greening the country” 60 years ago, and the National People’s Congress began the tree planting campaign 35 years ago at the behest of then-leader Deng Xiaoping.
Over the years, China’s forests have continued to grow at the fastest pace in the world this century, Xi said.
Xi also stressed the environmental protection drive. He said all tasks under the initiative, not limited to tree planting, need to be carried out well with widespread public participation.
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