On May 11, Shuocheng District's 2024 National Voluntary Tree Planting and "Three Norths" Project On-site Promotion Meeting was held to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the symposium on strengthening the comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and promoting the construction of key ecological projects such as the "Three Norths", vigorously carry forward the spirit of Youyu, adhere to the ecological area, continue to expand, rejuvenate and protect green, and accelerate the construction of an ecological and cultural tourism demonstration area.
Cheng Guodong announced the full launch of the event
Li Jun presided
Cheng Guodong, deputy secretary of the district party committee and head of the district, announced the full launch of the 2024 national voluntary tree planting activity in Shuocheng District, presided over by Li Jun, deputy secretary of the district party committee, Wang Jianjun, director of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress, Zhou Cuiying, chairman of the district CPPCC, and other leaders of the four sets of teams in the district participated in the voluntary tree planting with cadres and the masses.
Plugged into early summer, everything is beautiful. At the site of the fifth phase of the Huihe project, everyone worked in groups of three or five, digging pits with shovels, supporting seedlings to fill soil, and carrying water for irrigation. Everyone worked together to plant more than 3,000 purple-leaved plums.
Zhao Binshan spoke
Zhao Binshan, deputy head of the district, said in his speech that the 2024 national voluntary tree planting activity is a specific measure for our district to thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization and practice the "two mountains" theory, and it is also a vivid practice of protecting lucid waters and lush mountains and promoting green development. The broad masses of cadres and masses should seize the favorable opportunity of spring and, as always, actively participate in various forms of voluntary tree-planting activities. All departments at all levels should highlight the key points, grasp the key, identify the combination of land greening and ecological restoration, and promote rural revitalization, highlight the demonstration and promotion of projects, and promote the high-quality development of land greening. It is necessary to adhere to the two bottom lines of cultivated land protection and forest fire prevention, protect the hard-won greening achievements, continue to consolidate and develop the achievements of ecological civilization construction, build a solid ecological security barrier for building "three districts and one highland" and building a modern Xinshuo City, and greet the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with new achievements in ecological construction.
Tree planting site
The scene of the event
It is understood that in recent years, Shuocheng District has continued to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization, and has successively implemented five comprehensive ecological treatment projects, including the ecological restoration project of Xishan, Nanshan and Hongtao Mountain, and the treatment of the Huihe River and Qili River Basin, with a forest coverage rate of 23.6% and a forest and grass coverage of 45.2%, successfully creating a provincial-level ecological civilization demonstration zone. In 2024, Shuocheng District will adhere to ecological priority and green development, focus on promoting the seventh phase of the Huihe River project, improve the quality of the Yongding River (Sanggan River) headwaters land greening pilot demonstration project, implement the ecological protection and restoration of the plateau sand source in northern Shanxi Province and the ecological governance and protection project of the source of the Biguan River, a first-class tributary of the Yellow River Basin, to achieve 26,000 mu of afforestation and 7,500 mu of artificial grass planting, and continuously cultivate the ecological background of high-quality development.
Source: Shuocheng News
Editor: Ma Shijie