Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 3, Title: Adding greenery and color to building a beautiful China – General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech when participating in the voluntary tree planting activities in the capital inspired the cadres and the masses to take active actions to green the motherland
Xinhua News Agency reporter
“Today we plant trees together to call on everyone to take action and actively participate in afforestation. Everyone strives to be a green messenger and an ecological pioneer, adding green color to the construction of a beautiful China, and jointly writing a new era of Chinese modernization in which man and nature coexist harmoniously. Chapter.” General Secretary Xi Jinping said when participating in the voluntary tree planting activities in the capital on the 3rd.
Before and after the Qingming Festival, it is a good time to plant trees. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech inspired the cadres and the masses to plant trees and add greenery, be practitioners and promoters of ecological civilization construction, and jointly build a beautiful China.
“Barren mountains are covered with beauty, and deserts are transformed into oases,” General Secretary Xi Jinping said when talking about my country’s greening achievements. Yu Shitao, the director of Saihanba Mechanical Forestry Farm, has personal experience of this – Saihanba Mechanical Forestry Farm is located in the northernmost part of Hebei Province. It was once a desert sandy land where “yellow sand covered the sky and the sun was covered, and birds had no trees to live in”. Today, one million acres of artificial forests have become an endless sea of green forests, building a solid ecological barrier for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Yu Shitao said that after years of exploration, Saihanba has summarized a set of technical specifications for afforestation, providing valuable experience for other areas in the country to carry out artificial forest breeding. “In accordance with the requirements of the General Secretary, we must scientifically promote large-scale land greening, focus on afforestation and greening, and further improve the quality of forest tending. This year, we will build 20,000 acres of mixed forests through afforestation and afforestation to increase the diversity of tree species and achieve a healthy forest farm. development.” Yu Shitao said.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Arbor Day in New China. On Arbor Day, more than 600 people from Jianghua Yao Autonomous County in Hunan Province carried out tree planting activities in Xuantianhe Town, planting more than 10,000 saplings.
Chuantianhe Town mobilized 24 villages (communities) in the town to participate in voluntary tree planting activities. Zhou Changwu, secretary of the town party committee, said: “The general secretary pointed out that the problem of lack of forests and greenery in our country is still prominent, and the role of the forest’s ‘treasure house’ has not been fully played. We We will increase afforestation efforts, carry out precise improvements to the coastal forest landscape, and continue to promote the construction of coastal ecological corridors in the Chuuntian River Reservoir area.”
Guizhou Province is one of the main battlefields for comprehensive control of rocky desertification in my country. In Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, forage grasses such as royal bamboo grass and alfalfa are not only “good medicine” to control rocky desertification, but also the basis for the development of the local cattle breeding industry.
“The General Secretary pointed out that adding greenery means increasing advantages, and planting trees means planting the future.” Huang Yongkang, deputy director of the Guanling County Forestry Bureau, was deeply encouraged. In recent years, Guanling County has combined various projects such as planting peppercorns, pastures, and loquats, which has not only reduced the rate of rocky desertification in the county, but also benefited the people from increasing their incomes. “We have planted economic forests mainly composed of Zanthoxylum bungeanum along the roads below 1,200 meters above sea level and along the Beipan River in the county. We must continue to increase production, improve quality and efficiency, and achieve a double harvest of ecological and economic benefits.” Huang Yongkang said.
“To green the motherland, we must simultaneously expand, develop and protect green”, “expand the path for transforming green waters and green mountains into mountains of gold and silver” and “promote better linkage between forests, water reservoirs, money banks, grain warehouses and carbon banks”…General Secretary Xi Jinping The secretary’s important speech provides guidance for promoting land greening and building a beautiful China.
At a thin-shell pecan fruit and high-yield demonstration base in Fuling District, Chongqing City, thin-shell pecan trees stand upright in the wind. In the past few days, Chang Jun, associate researcher of the woody oil breeding and cultivation team of the Yalin Institute of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, often comes early in the morning to check the growth of seedlings.
“If everything goes well, we will be able to see mature hybrid fruits in more than half a year.” Chang Jun is full of confidence in the next development. The thin-shell pecan tree species he and his team studied can produce high-quality nuts with high economic value. and high-grade edible oil, which can also be used for landscaping and high-grade wood supply, and help to reach peak carbon neutrality and achieve the unification of ecological, economic and social benefits.
Thousands of miles away in Xiaoxinganling, the ice and snow are melting. On April 1 this year, Heilongjiang’s key state-owned forest areas celebrated the 10th anniversary of the complete cessation of commercial logging of natural forests.
“After the cessation of logging in the forest area, the ecological environment improved. With the development of ecological health tourism and forest economy, the lives of people in the forest area are getting better and better.” Liu Yangshun, a retired forestry employee in Yichun City, opened a farmhouse in front of his home. Forest products such as mountain wild vegetables are increasingly favored by tourists, and income has increased year after year. Right now, he is busy preparing ingredients and cleaning the room in preparation for the upcoming “little vacation”.
Dry weather in spring can easily cause forest fires. In Lintan Township, Chongyi County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, Deng Xiaoyong, deputy secretary of the township party committee, and several villagers were visiting houses to promote forest fire prevention.
Chongyi County has a forest coverage rate of 88.3% and is one of the pilot areas for the development of forestry carbon sink projects in Jiangxi Province. By exploring carbon sink trading, the forest has become a “golden rice bowl” for villagers. “Promoting forest fire prevention used to be the task of cadres, but now it is the shared responsibility of cadres and the masses.” Deng Xiaoyong said that in accordance with the requirements of the General Secretary, to strengthen the protection of forest and grassland resources and do a good job in fire prevention and extinguishing, it is necessary to build a “protective wall of group management and group prevention” “.
In the northern Xinjiang of the motherland, the Green Great Wall’s “Three North” protective forest project stretches thousands of miles, and key management areas have achieved a historic transformation from “sands advancing and people retreating” to “green advancing and sand receding”.
“General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the Three Norths region is the main battlefield for land greening, and more efforts should be concentrated on the construction of the ‘Three Norths’ project to build a solid green Great Wall in northern Xinjiang. This provides guidance for us to successfully fight the ‘Three Norths’ project We have set the direction and mustered up the energy.” Liu Bing, director of the Three-North Bureau of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that it is necessary to comprehensively implement regional systematic governance projects, adhere to scientific sand control, strengthen joint prevention and joint treatment, and strive to turn the northern Xinjiang of the motherland into a green land. The barrier is built stronger.
The construction of a beautiful China cannot be separated from everyone’s efforts, and greening the motherland requires everyone to fulfill their responsibilities.
From online reservations to offline tree planting, to receiving online certificates of responsibility for voluntary tree planting in the capital… In Beijing, citizens can participate in voluntary tree planting nearby through the integration of online and offline methods. Gao Dawei, director of the Beijing Municipal Landscaping and Greening Bureau, introduced that Beijing continues to enrich the connotation of voluntary tree planting and launches 37 responsible forms of voluntary tree planting in 8 categories, including afforestation, tending and management, species recognition and adoption, and volunteer services.
“In the future, we will carry out voluntary tree planting activities in the community in accordance with the requirements put forward by the General Secretary to unblock mass participation channels and innovate forms of responsibility, guide residents to participate in the design, construction and management of their communities, their own balconies and roof greening, and help build garden cities. .” Gao Dawei said.
“Planting trees to increase greenery and build a beautiful China is a clear request of the General Secretary.” Wang Hui, the first village secretary of Houyu Village, Lucheng Town, Tongzhou District, Beijing, who participated in the voluntary tree planting event that day, said, “Currently we are advancing For the construction of beautiful villages, the village party branch actively organizes villagers to carry out activities such as tree planting and village environmental sanitation improvement, which will gradually improve the village environment and contribute to the construction of a beautiful China.”
2024-04-05 08:29:00
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