Xu and Du take part in the voluntary tree-planting and Hunan forest coverage rate reaches 59.5%

(Xu Shousheng and Du Jiaohao are watering an Osmanthus tree just planted.)

(In Lei Feng Park, Xu Shousheng and Du Jiahao are listening to the introduction of development and construction in Wangcheng.)

　　[Reported by Liao Jie; Photo by Ming Jianfei/Rednet](Beijing)March 18,2015  In the morning of March 18, in Lei Feng Park of Wangcheng, Changsha, Xu Shousheng, Secretary of Hunan Provincial Party Committee, the provincial standing committee director and Du Jiahao, Governor and Deputy Secretary of Hunan CPC along with local cadres and the masses planted an Osmanthus tree.

　　Xu Shousheng said that, tree planting should be fine managed to ensure that every tree planted can survive. At the same time, we should combine voluntary tree-planting with the integration of urban and rural greening construction to construct urban-rural integration forest ecosystem.
　　
　　Since National Tree Planting Day was set in 1979, tree planting has been our citizen’s duty and responsibility which has also became a cultural phenomenon. According to the statistics of the forestry sector, the number of Hunan people joining the voluntary tree planting has reached 800 million and 3.996 billion trees are planted. With the development of the voluntary tree planting activity, Hunan’s ecological environment has been improved a lot. At present, the provincial forest coverage reaches 59.57%, urban park green land area per capital reaches 8.38 square meters,the greening rate of built up area reaches 34.11%.

　　Xu Shousheng said that sound ecological environmental is the fairest public products, the most favored well-being of the people's livelihood. We should continue to promote voluntary tree planting, make more efforts to increase forest resource, enhance resource environmental bearing capacity and ecological products supply ability, constantly live up to people’s expectation for fresh air, clean water and sound environment.

Translated by Zhou Qian.