Every spring, General Secretary Xi Jinping takes action and plants trees with the people in the capital. In April 2019, at a tree planting site in Yongshun Town, Tongzhou District, Beijing, he asked the children: "Come often to plant trees in the future! You are like saplings.
I wish you thrive!" "Strengthen outdoor sports and extracurricular activities. Activities, 'Civilize its spirit, barbarize its body,'" he said. "It takes ten years to grow trees but a hundred years to cultivate people," he added.