Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a voluntary tree-planting activity in Beijing on Wednesday and called for national reforestation efforts to build a joint China.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, noted that around the Qingming Festival, China’s vast territory is full of vitality, making it a time to plant trees.
Today, as we plant trees together, our purpose is to call everyone to take action, to actively participate in afforestation and to try to be green ambassadors and pioneers of ecology, to give a greener and more colorful tone to the structure. of a lovely atmosphere. China and China will jointly compose a new bankruptcy of Chinese modernization where humanity and nature will coexist in harmony, he said.
In the suburbs of Beijing, spring is in full swing. Around 10:40 a. m. , Xi and other state and Party leaders, including Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng, arrived in Lucheng City, Beijing’s Tongzhou District, and joined the government and citizens of the capital to plant trees.
The planting site is located at the crossroads of Beijing’s Tongzhou district and the three counties of Langfang City in the northern province of Hebei. With elegant ecological prestige on the water’s edge, it is located in a forest park along the Chaobai River, the first joint inter-regional park built across Beijing and Hebei Province.
Seeing Xi, officials and locals greeted him warmly. Xi waved to the crowd, then picked up a shovel, made his way to the site and began planting trees with officials from the Beijing municipal government and the National Administration of Forests and Grasslands. , as well as members of the Chinese Young Pioneers.
Digging holes with a shovel, building dirt berms, watering trees. . . Xi planted saplings of various trees, adding Chinese pine, Cotinus coggygria, Yuanbao maple, cherry, blossoming peach, and platycladus orientalis. While planting trees, he also inspected the young scholars around him about their studies, their lives, and their involvement in painting and sports.
He stresses that young people are the future of the homeland and deserve to interact in art and reforestation from a young age, to sow a green seed in the center and expand their awareness of adoration and love of nature. “Take a close look, expand your bodies, strengthen, expand integral qualities such as solid ethical foundations, intellectual abilities, physical vigor, aesthetic sensitivity, and professional skills, and try to reach the backbone of the country,” he urged. activities, exuded a warm atmosphere as leaders worked with others to govern and water the trees.
In cordial talks with officials and other local people there, Xi said he has participated in the voluntary tree-planting activity in Beijing for 17 consecutive years, since joining the CPC Central Committee. He noted that this year marks the 45th anniversary of China’s status quo. of National Tree Planting Day, and that other Chinese have pledged to plant trees and reforest, transforming once-barren mountains into lush mountains and deserts into oases, and making remarkable achievements. At the same time, we will have to be aware that the scarcity of forest resources remains a major challenge in the country and the role of forests as a “treasure” has not been fully exploited, he said. Increasing green means bringing greater assets to development, and planting trees means planting the future. Trees deserve to be planted one after the other and from generation to generation, to frequently enrich the country’s green resources, he said.
To make China greener, Xi is under pressure to make concerted efforts on green expansion, revitalization and coverage. Green expansion means scientifically achieving large-scale greening of the land, based on local situations and suitable tree types, at the right time and with the right methods. In this way, we can make each and every planted tree alive and each and every planted plot green. Green revitalization means emphasizing the quality and effectiveness of greening, expanding canals to turn the country’s clear waters and lush mountains. into invaluable assets and promote the coordination of the role of forests in water conservation, generating economic benefits, boosting cereal production and serving as a carbon sink, in order to achieve embedded ecological, economic and social benefits of forests. Environmental coverage means strengthening the conservation of forest and grassland resources through effective fire fighting and thorough inspection and rectification of primary and hidden hazards, to safeguard hard-won progress in greening land.
The Three Norths region is the main battleground for land greening, Xi said, calling for more efforts to focus on building the Three Norths forest program for the Great Green Wall in northern China.
Xi is under pressure for everyone to assume the duty to participate in national green programs. It is vital to keep the channels of popular participation open, to find new models for the exercise of daily work and to make full use of the formula of the forest chiefs, he said, calling for the mobilization of all circles to promote the approval of the voluntary national tree-planting campaign in an increasingly substantial way.
Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and State Councilors in Beijing participated in the tree-planting activity.