"At present and for some time to come, green development is a major strategy for China's development. Carrying out voluntary tree planting for the whole people is a vivid practice to promote land greening and build a beautiful China. ”
Yesterday (4th), General Secretary Xi Jinping braved the rain to come to the tree planting site located in Dongba Central Park, Chaoyang District, Beijing, to participate in voluntary tree planting with the people in the capital, and emphasized the importance of voluntary tree planting by the whole people.
Video: Participated in the capital's voluntary tree-planting activities for 11 consecutive years, and the general secretary's earnest message source: CCTV news client
Recalling the process of participating in afforestation, General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "This is the eleventh time I have participated in tree-planting activities since I became the general secretary of the party, counting the number of times I have participated since I came to the Central Committee, it has been 16 times, and I have participated in tree-planting activities during my work in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai." ”
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, every spring, General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally practiced and picked up a shovel to participate in voluntary tree-planting activities with the masses. From taking the lead in setting an example to emphasizing strengthening ecological protection, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about land greening and led the promotion of ecological civilization construction.
A shovel of soil is planted not only a sapling, but also the hope of ecological civilization; Buckets of water are watered not only with the soil, but also with the dream of a beautiful China.
"Unthinkable, no forest
What the Earth and Humanity will look like"
"Forests are the main body and important resources of terrestrial ecosystems, and an important ecological guarantee for human survival and development. It is inconceivable what the earth and humanity would be like without forests. ”
On April 2013, 4, at the tree-planting site on the banks of the Yongding River in Fengtai District, Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of forests when participating in the capital's voluntary tree-planting activity.
On the same day, General Secretary Xi Jinping shoveled the soil, cultivated new soil, carried buckets of water, and successively planted whitebark pine, Xifu begonia, elm leaf plum... Today, the tree planting site is a memorial forest, full of leaf and life. The small sapling of whitebark pine planted by the general secretary has now grown into a 6-meter-tall tree.
Li Ran, head of the landscaping department of the Beijing Garden Expo Management Center, said: "General Secretary Xi Jinping said at that time that China is still a country with little forest and little greenery and fragile ecology, and planting trees and improving the ecology is a long way to go. We have implemented the instructions of the general secretary, continued to plant trees and protect forests, effectively improved the ecology, and the green coverage rate reached more than 95%, and the Garden Expo Park has become a new ecological place for citizens and tourists to get close to nature, check in and relax. ”
Afforestation can not only green and beautify the home, but also play a role in preventing soil erosion, protecting farmland, regulating the climate, etc., which is an important project that is beneficial to the present and benefits future generations.
Saihanba, the "emerald" in northern Hebei, was half a century ago a vast wasteland where birds did not inhabit and yellow sand covered the sky. Three generations of Saihanba forest farm people insisted on afforestation, watering millions of acres of planted forest sea, which played an important role in wind protection and sand fixation and water conservation.
In August 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions to the builders of the Saihanba Forest Farm in Hebei Province, praising them for "creating the miracle of turning the wasteland into a forest and sea, interpreting the concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains with practical actions, and forging the spirit of Saihanba that remembers the mission, works hard to start a business, and develops greenly."
Four years later, the general secretary came to the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm and went into the depths of the forest sea to investigate: "When we build this forest, its ecological barrier role will always be brought into play." ”
If the forest grass is prosperous, the ecology is prosperous. In April 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Hainan. One impressive detail about the tree is that General Secretary Xi Jinping got out of the car on the way, inspected the coastal ecological protection work, and fertilized and watered an ageless pine he planted in April 4. The general secretary instructed responsible local comrades to take ecological protection as an important task and grasp it well.
Ten years of trees, gathering trees into forests. Green is the background color of beautiful China and the color of high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping once said, "Afforestation is an important way to achieve blue sky, green land and clean water, and it is the most inclusive people's livelihood project." ”
In March this year, the Office of the National Greening Committee issued the "3 Communiqué on China's Land Greening Status", announcing a "green report card": in 2022, 2022.383 million hectares of afforestation were completed, 321.4 million hectares of grass were planted and improved, and 184.73 million hectares of sandy fossil desertification land were treated.
Up to now, the national forest coverage rate has reached 24.02%, and the forest stock has reached 194.93 billion cubic meters, maintaining the "double growth" of forest area and accumulation for more than 30 consecutive years.
People feel more truly that the sky is bluer and the water is clearer. In 2022, the proportion of good days in cities at the prefecture level and above will be 86.5%, the discharge of major water pollutants nationwide will continue to decline, and the proportion of excellent water quality cross-sections of surface water will be 87.9%.
"Truly plant trees for the people and benefit the masses"
Afforestation benefits people and relies on people.
In April 2020, when participating in the capital's voluntary tree-planting activity, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that we must adhere to the people-centered development thinking, persistently carry out land greening, adapt measures to local conditions, plan scientifically, do not deliberately pursue exotic flowers and precious trees, and truly plant trees for the people and benefit the masses.
Everyone is a cooler, but they must also be tree planters. Regarding how to plant trees, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward specific and detailed requirements:
"Starting from seeing the green and building every green space"
"Carry forward the spirit of planting trees by predecessors and cooling by future generations, multi-tree planting, planting good trees, and managing trees well"
"Everyone contributes, accumulates over time, to make our beautiful motherland more beautiful"
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The firewood was high, and the trees were planted into a forest. At this year's tree planting site, General Secretary Xi Jinping called on everyone to take action, not only to plant a piece of green on the vast land of the motherland, but also to sow green seeds in the hearts of the vast number of people, to jointly welcome the spring of hope and jointly build a beautiful China.
The general secretary stressed that all regions and departments should combine the actual conditions to organize and carry out voluntary tree planting, innovate organizational methods, enrich the forms of due diligence, provide more convenience for the general public to participate in voluntary tree planting, and achieve "full year round conscientiousness, diverse conscientiousness, convenience and conscientiousness".
Trees, also "tree people".
"Do you plant trees every year on Arbor Day?"
"Do you know what kind of tree you planted?"
"What kind of sports activities do you usually have?"
This is April 2015, when General Secretary Xi Jinping participated in the voluntary tree-planting activity in the capital, he talked with the students about their study and life.
Listening to the children say that the school football game had opened, the general secretary asked them with great interest when they started playing football. The children gathered around the general secretary, and you and I talked very happily.
While speaking, the general secretary lifted a begonia sapling more than one person tall and put it into the tree pit, and two boys stepped forward to support the sapling.
"The tree is tilted, so straighten it a little." As the general secretary spoke, he straightened the saplings and let the children fill in the soil.
"Watch your hands." "Slow down, slow down, don't shovel on your feet." Seeing that the children were not skillful, the general secretary reminded them with concern, and taught them how to hold shovels, how to carry buckets, and how to cultivate soil cofferdams.
In April 2019, at a tree-planting site in Yongshun Town, Tongzhou District, Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping told the children: "Come and plant trees often in the future!" You are like little saplings, I wish you all to thrive! "Strengthen outdoor sports and extracurricular activities, 'civilize its spirit, barbarize its body'."
At this year's tree planting site, the general secretary also taught the children how to plant trees while working, and talked with the children about their learning and life, asking them how much they knew about plants, whether they had more homework now, and whether there were many extracurricular tutoring... The general secretary advised the children to love work from an early age and achieve all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor.
The general secretary stressed that children's education, like planting trees, must be erected at the beginning, otherwise it will grow crooked.
After planting the trees, General Secretary Xi Jinping said to the primary and secondary school students present, when you also become parents, let your children and grandchildren continue to plant trees, and continue to do it from generation to generation, this is how a beautiful China was built.
With heart-warming words and sincere teachings, the general secretary gave the children a vivid ecological civilization lesson, and planted the seeds of loving trees and protecting trees in the hearts of the "little saplings".
March 3 this year is the 12th Arbor Day in China, and people are planting greenery all over the country.
In Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, local senior high school students were organized to plant "growth forests"; In Chenzhou, Hunan and Changyang, Hubei, local people scientifically match fertilizer formulas according to the characteristics of different stone mountains and plant new greenery on stone mountains; Sansha, Hainan, chose to plant plants such as coconut, horn tree, and wind-resistant tree with high survival rate to add green to the islands and reefs.
From tree to forest, generation after generation has planted trees and kept walking.
"Join hands to address climate and environmental challenges
Protect the blue planet"
Planting trees and promoting green development is not only the vision of a beautiful China, but also the common green dream of mankind.
In the face of global crises and challenges such as climate change, China has put forward a proposal that the earth is our common home, and we should uphold the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, work together to cope with challenges in the field of climate and environment, and protect this blue planet.
In the fall of 2020, China promised the world a timetable for achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality: carbon dioxide emissions will peak before 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
Forests are the largest reservoirs and absorbers of carbon on land. Just as banks store cash, forests can store carbon dioxide through plant photosynthesis. At present, the total carbon storage of forest vegetation in the country has reached 92.<> billion tons.
At this year's tree planting site, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again stressed that "forests are both reservoirs, money reservoirs, grain reservoirs, and carbon reservoirs." ”
We must unswervingly take the road of ecological priority and green development, increase forest area, improve forest quality, increase ecosystem carbon sink, and make greater contributions to achieving China's carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals and maintaining global ecological security.
In the past ten years, China's land greening has made historic achievements, with a total of 10.2 billion mu of afforestation completed nationwide, and the area of planted forests ranks first in the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping said, "China has contributed to the greening of the earth and the improvement of global climate change, and the Chinese people have contributed indispensably." ”
Planting trees, planting new seedlings, and planting the future and hope.
Afforestation and greening is a cause that contributes to the present and benefits the future, and it must be done year after year, generation after generation, roll up our sleeves and work hard.
Let us take active action, starting from now, starting from planting trees, planting green mountains and gold and silver mountains that belong to everyone, and painting a renewed picture of beautiful China!
Executive producer丨Li Zhe
Editor-in-chief丨Wang Xingdong
Editor丨Zhan Xingcen
Vision丨Li Tingting
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