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The east wind returns with spring, sending flowers on my branches. As the 44th Arbor Day is approaching, afforestation surges are taking place all over the country, adding a touch of green to the long-awaited spring.

Planting trees is a simple feeling that the Chinese nation has inherited for thousands of years.“Harmony between man and nature” is the value pursuit and life philosophy of Chinese people since ancient times. The Chinese civilization has accumulated a wealth of ecological civilization ideas. As early as the pre-Qin period, the state had a special official position in charge of the mountains and forests, responsible for the rational arrangement and utilization of tree resources; in the Tang and Song dynasties, the national nature and specificity of tree planting were clarified in the form of laws. Rewards. Mencius, an ancient thinker, pointed out that “when an axe is used in the mountains and forests, the wood and wood are invincible.” He used a simple and dialectical point of view very early to explain how to strike a balance between protecting the ecological environment and obtaining economic benefits. Forest resources have risen to the height of national wealth.

Afforestation is a major country’s project related to the national economy and people’s livelihood.At the beginning of the founding of New China, the forest coverage rate was only 8.6%, and various natural disasters such as sandstorms, floods, and saline-alkali land plagued the production and life of the people. Therefore, since 1981, the nationwide voluntary tree-planting movement has become popular in China, and has achieved one miracle after another, including the world‘s largest ecological project, the Three North Shelter Forest, and the extraordinary feat of turning the desert barren into a “forest oasis”. , the world‘s largest plantation plantation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau…the list goes on. Countless barren lands have been transformed into livable green homes. People are protected from soil erosion and sandstorms. Afforestation has significantly improved our living environment and living conditions, and the background of “Beautiful China” has become brighter.

Afforestation is China’s outstanding contribution to the realization of the concept of “a community with a shared future for mankind”.At present, a large amount of land in the world is increasingly degraded, and the environmental situation is not optimistic. China’s stable “green growth” has become the ballast stone for maintaining the basic balance of global forest coverage. In the past “13th Five-Year Plan”, China’s forest coverage rate rose to 23.04%, and the average annual carbon sequestration exceeded 200 million tons, ranking the world‘s leading position in terms of afforestation contribution or carbon sequestration capacity. At the same time, China has also clarified its task book, timetable and roadmap for its own carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and earnestly shoulders its due responsibilities and responsibilities as a major country.

The achievements of a tree for ten years are worthy of the shadow of the predecessors. Building a beautiful China with lucid waters and lush mountains is a long-term process. It is the well-being of every Chinese, and it is also an inevitable requirement for practicing new development concepts and building a great modern socialist country with Chinese characteristics. On the occasion of the 44th Arbor Day, let us participate in the nationwide voluntary tree planting action, advocate a new life of green and low-carbon civilization, and build a common beautiful home with practical actions, adding new greenery.

(Author: Propaganda Department of Wujiang District Committee)