Beijing an Urban Forest ?

14/03/2017

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Suffering ever-worsening air quality, haze-obscured Beijing is following the example of national planting initiatives to combat desertification in the nearby Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts, with extensive afforestation efforts. 

Saplings have been planted in Northern China Image: theplaidzebra.com

In 1979, China designated March 12 as National Tree Planting Day. A total of 200 million saplings have been planted since the campaign began, said the Beijing Afforestation Committee Office on 12th, March.

​The forest coverage of Beijing has more than tripled from 12.8 percent to 42.3 percent since the country launched a national tree-planting campaign in the early 1980s, said the city authorities.
The proportion of green land in urban Beijing increased from 20 percent in 1980 to 48 percent in 2016.

Volunteers join the Great Green Wall effort against desertification Image: theplaidzebra.com

​In 2016, the city planted trees on 12,700 hectares of land. This year, it plans to have volunteers plant 1 million trees.

​The tree-planting campaign has led to fewer barren mountains, and authorities have encouraged residents to register to take care of the trees, said the office.

​Read the original article at China Daily

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