Tree planting day in China (12/03)

Spring holiday — Tree planting day (whale). 河 河) — is an official holiday in China and Taiwan. Every year on March 12, the day of the death of the outstanding revolutionary Sun Yat-sen (Chinese. 田 文, 1866-1925), mass plantings of green spaces are being carried out in the country.

Sun Yat-sen took the initiative to mass plant trees, in which party and state leaders still take personal part today.

In 1981, at the fourth session of the Fifth National People's Congress of China, a Resolution was adopted to conduct a nationwide voluntary tree planting campaign, which established the holding of Tree Planting Day in the country.

The resolution also stated that every capable citizen between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant and grow three to five trees a year. If it is not possible to plant a tree for some reason, then it is necessary to perform work of equivalent volume — sowing, cultivation, weeding, tree pruning and other similar types of work.

This initiative of the country's leadership was actively supported by the Chinese population. Although today not everyone takes part in it, the scope of what is being done is enormous. About 500 million Chinese participate in the Day's events every year, and since the holiday began in 2008, more than 50 billion seedlings have been planted by volunteers in the country.

Interestingly, the origins of Tree Planting Day — are from the American city of Nebraska. The Day was officially established in 1872 by prominent politician and US Secretary of Agriculture Sterling Morton (1832–1902). Currently, this landing day is celebrated in some countries around the world in different seasons.

In Taiwan, such a holiday has traditionally been celebrated since 1927. In 1914, the founder of the Agricultural College at Nanjing University proposed that the Department of Agriculture and Forestry adopt the practice of Tree Planting Day from the United States.

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