Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong launched the New Year Tree Planting Festival in Viet Cuong commune, Tran Yen district, the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on February 10 (the sixth day of Lunar New Year 2019).
Party General
Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (R) launches the New Year Tree
Planting Festival in Yen Bai on February 10. (Photo: laodong.vn)
On November 28, 1959, President Ho Chi Minh wrote an article
which was published on Nhan Dan (People) newspaper, stressing the significance
of tree planting to each person, each family and the entire nation. It has
since become an annual Vietnamese custom each Lunar New Year.
Addressing at the ceremony, the Party
and State leader underlined that tree plantation has played an important role
in preventing natural disasters, improving quality of the environment, and
bettering local livelihoods amidst global warming, climate change and sea level
rise, which are billed as one of the formidable challenges to the human beings
in the 21st century.
He called upon the entire Party, army
and people to engage in growing trees and forests as well as taking actions
against deforestation as part of efforts to protect the environment.
According to Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong, the country planted more than 231,000 ha
of concentrated forest and over 63 million scattered trees in 2018, raising the
forest coverage to 41.65%. Meanwhile, the export of forestry products was
estimated at more than US$9.3 billion.
The forestry sector’s achievements
contributed greatly to the national socio-economic development in the year, he
added.
In accordance with the Target Programme
on Sustainable Forestry Development for 2016-2020, competent agencies and
sectors will work to raise forestry production value by 6% annually, as well as
forestry export to US$10.5 billion and forest coverage to 41.85% in 2019.
In Yen Bai province, noticeable changes
were seen in forestry production, with additional 15,443 ha of forest and the
forest coverage reaching 63%.
Following the launching ceremony, Party
General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong met, delivered Tet greetings
and presented gifts to local ethnic people.
Source: NDO
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