Source: Xinhua Net
Since the winter, Lulong County has seized the opportunity and overcame difficulties to vigorously implement the afforestation project in autumn and winter, in order to further improve the forest coverage rate, and strive to create a “ strong coastal county and beautiful Lulong”. From 2017 to 2019, more than 100,000 mu of trees have been planted for three consecutive years.
On the morning of November 9, in the afforestation base of Xiaomoying Village in Lulong Economic Development Zone, people from the Lulong government were busy carrying out the voluntary tree planting in autumn and winter. Under the leadership of Ju Shiwen, secretary of the Lulong party committee, more than 2,000 officials devoted themselves to the task of planting trees, they strictly followed the technical essentials of afforestation in autumn and winter to ensure the survival rate of the seedlings.
They focus on the passage greening on both sides of the main roads. There are more than 3300 weeping willows along the 10-kilometer section from Liuhuangling to Liguanying of the provincial Sheliu Road, party members and cadres came to replant the greenbelt, after their efforts, the greening of the passage has been completely renewed.
The voluntary tree planting activities lasted for two days that carried out in each town, planting a total of 1,500 mu of seedlings such as Chinese scholartree, chestnut and pine. Next, Lulong County will continue to implement greening of key reservoirs, traffic trunks, ring roads, forests around villages, 25-degree slopes, economic forest base construction, mountain closure and afforestation, etc. It is expected that all afforestation tasks will be completed by November 15.
"Afforestation is a career that contributes to contemporary times and benefits the future. In the past three years, Lulong County has vigorously carried out afforestation with the annual afforestation area of over 100,000 mu. We take the afforestation activities of today as the concrete action of the theme education of “remaining true to our inspiration and keeping our mission firmly in mind”, continue to plant more trees and manage them well, seize the favorable opportunity for afforestation in autumn and winter this year, focus on the sides of high-speed railways and 121 small reservoirs in the county, and continue to complete afforestation of ten thousand mu, so as to make Lulong County more ecological and beautiful!” said Zhang Delong, deputy governor of Lulong County Government.
Since this year, Lulong County has vigorously promoted the “four networks” greening of road networks, river networks, village networks and farmland forest networks, organized 4 large-scale voluntary tree planting activities, and built more than 100 afforestation bases. Combined with the comprehensive improvement of rural environment and the construction of beautiful countryside, they encouraged the public to increase the amount of green in the villages using the idle lands. According to the standard of each person planting3 trees, they voluntarily planted 1 million trees. The village greening rate reached 30%, and completed the city-designated task of 113%. The forest coverage rate increased by 4 percentage points to 42.2%.
Lulong County closely focuses on the construction of the ecological model city for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Qinhuangdao back garden, and vigorously implements the ecological county strategy, takes the opportunities of creating the national garden county, the national civilized county, and the third Conference on Tourism Development, to benefit the farmers and support the poverty relief with the afforestation and greening as the starting line for the construction of the ecological Lulong. In accordance with the requirements of afforestation, the whole county achieved remarkable results despite of the difficulties.
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