China's forest industry giant holds second Tree Planting Day event

HARBIN,China,April 21,2023 -- A large scale tree-planting event has been launched on April 20th by LongjiangForest Industry Group in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province,with 23affiliated companies all joining the campaign to build a "Green Longjiang".

54,156 participants,including CPC members,staff and employees of the forestindustry group as well as people living and working in the forest areas,haveplanted 522,100 trees in the forest industry operation area,covering 6,585,700hectares.

The effort is considered a vivid practice by the Party Committee of LongjiangForest Industry Group to the ecological construction and protection in northernChina. It was inspired by the concepts of "Beautiful China" and "Two Mountains"that means clear waters and green mountains are as good as mountains of goldand silver.

At the tree planting base located in Weihe Forestry Bureau,Zhang Xiaobo,member of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of Longjiang ForestIndustry Group,said the activity should be taken as an opportunity to mobilizemore forestry workers to participate in the voluntary afforestation.

"Everyone should be a practitioner and promoter of ecological civilizationconstruction,to help transform the ecological advantages of forest industryinto development advantages,to create more ecological,social and economicvalue,and strive to build a new modern forest industry with greener mountains,clearer water and more beautiful homes," he said.