What are the benefits of planting trees?

Tree planting is important for climate regulation, water conservation, and reducing air pollution. Because of the serious air pollution, so people plant trees to "green". Because trees have the role of absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. And can resist the wind and sand. Can also beautify the environment.

China has a tradition of planting trees since ancient times, and many anecdotes have emerged that advocate tree planting. Tree planting to the Qingming season for the best, when the climate is warm, spring rains sprinkled, conducive to the saplings to survive.

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Legislation

Ancient China has advised people to plant trees, but by the state in the form of a law expressly provides for tree planting day is a modern thing. 1914 Nanjing Jinling University College of Agriculture founder Mr. Fei Yili, the United States of America will be the implementation of the Arbor Day approach to suggest that the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry at the time of the hope that the Chinese government to follow suit. 1915, July 31, the Chinese government stipulated that every year on the Lunar Qingming Day as the Tree Planting Day, which is held throughout the country to plant trees.

After the founding of the Chinese People's Republic, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the fifth session of the sixth meeting in February 1979 decided to March 12 every year for Tree Planting Day, in September 1984, the Sixth National People's Congress of the Standing Committee of the seventh meeting of the revised "Chinese People's Republic of China Forestry Law" in the General Provisions of the "planting of forests, protection of forests is the duty of citizens. forests is a duty incumbent on citizens", thus bringing afforestation into the realm of law.

In the summer of 1981, historically rare floods occurred in Sichuan and Shaanxi. Based on the initiative of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, the Fourth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress in December 1981 considered and adopted the "Resolution on Carrying Out the Compulsory Tree-Planting Campaign for the Whole Country," and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a set of four stamps on the "Greening of the Motherland," the first of which was "Compulsory Tree-Planting for the Whole Country. "

Resolution.

The resolution pointed out that where conditions existed, the Chinese People's Republic of China citizens aged 11 years or older, in addition to the elderly, sick and disabled, according to local conditions, each person is obliged to plant 3 to 5 trees per year, or to complete the corresponding amount of labor seedlings, care and other greening tasks. The resolution called on the people of all ethnic groups to "take action, plant trees every year, move mountains and persevere". 1982 Arbor Day, Comrade Deng Xiaoping took the lead in planting the first tree of the compulsory tree-planting campaign on Beijing's Yuquan Mountain.

Since then, compulsory tree-planting has been put into practice as a legal obligation that citizens must fulfill, and a compulsory tree-planting campaign that is the largest in the world, with the largest number of participants and the most remarkable results has been carried out in China for 26 years. Over the past 26 years of compulsory tree-planting for the whole nation, leaders of the Party and the State have earnestly fulfilled the tree-planting obligations incumbent upon citizens, no matter how busy they are at work or whether they are in Beijing or abroad. Statistics show that since the national compulsory tree-planting campaign was launched in 1982, the number of people who have participated in compulsory tree-planting in China has amounted to more than 10.4 billion, and the cumulative number of trees planted has totaled more than 49.2 billion.

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