Picking up a shovel, Chinese President Xi Jinping joined children, officials and local residents in planting trees on a riverbank in the nation’s capital Beijing this spring, following a tradition that he has kept as the country’s top leader for 13 consecutive years.
“Voluntary tree planting is a nationwide initiative that must be carried on for generations,” Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said Thursday at the tree planting site.
He called for strength to be pooled to build a beautiful China and make the country even greener through afforestation efforts.
Xi’s resolute commitment to planting trees has inspired Chinese citizens — government officials and regular folk alike — to engage actively in China’s afforestation initiative and support the nation’s green transformation and ecological conservation efforts.
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