Source: Great Wall Network
Great Wall Network News (Reporter Xu Wenyan, Xin He Ning) March is a good time to plant trees and add greenery. On March 12, a voluntary tree planting activity was in full swing in Beiying Village, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. More than 800 people, including cadres and masses, volunteers of returning college students, and planted more than 20,000 seedlings neatly on more than 220 acres of land, adding spring to both sides of the Hutuo River.
"Today, the planting of seedlings is located in the 500-meter green belt on the south side of the Shiji High-speed Railway, both along the road and next to the village." Guo Yongli, the station manager of the Forestry Workstation of the Gaocheng District Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, introduced that in order to achieve the goal of adding 21,000 mu of new greening area this year, the district takes the Arbor Day activities as an opportunity to adhere to the combination of the "three edges and three sides" key greening work with other greening projects, and mobilizes and organizes various forms of national voluntary tree planting activities. "In addition to centralized voluntary planting like today, small-scale voluntary tree planting activities will be carried out on Saturdays and Sundays."
People who participated in voluntary tree planting cooperated with each other to transport the seedlings to designated locations. Reporter Xin He Ning Photo
"Middle March to mid-April is the peak period of spring tree planting, and 85% of the overall greening task is planned to be completed." Guo Yongli introduced that in recent years, Gaocheng District has invested nearly 1 billion yuan in a cumulative investment of 95,000 mu of tree planting, and the forest coverage rate has reached 29.4%. This year, the Hutuo River ecological restoration green corridor project, transportation main road landscape project, park enterprise greening project, rural living environment greening project, and urban greening quality improvement project will be implemented.
Among them, the Hutuo River Ecological Restoration Green Corridor Project plans to create a 100-mile green ecological corridor integrating flood control barriers, green ecology, landscape recreation, and industrial economy. The greening area is 13,000 mu and will be completed by the end of August this year.
reporter learned at the event that this year, Shijiazhuang City’s afforestation task was 1.11 million mu, of which 250,000 mu of artificial afforestation were. Focus on implementing the construction project of the Taihang Mountain Expressway ecological economic landscape belt, 8 afforestation projects, including the northern Beijing-Shijiazhuang High-speed Railway , Beijing-Kunming Expressway , and 8 afforestation projects on both sides of the city's tourism development conference route.
