Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc launched the Tet Tree Planting Festival, planting 1 billion new trees
On the morning of February 20, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the launching ceremony of the 2021 Tree Planting Festival in eternal gratitude to Uncle Ho in the spring of Tan Suu in Phu Yen province, responding to the program of planting 1 billion new trees under the Prime Minister's initiative.
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| Tree Planting Festival Launching Ceremony in Phu Yen |
The launching ceremony was organized by the People's Committee of Phu Yen province in coordination with the Government Electronic Information Portal.
Also attending the event are expected to be leaders of the Government Office, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Finance, Home Affairs, Industry and Trade, Central Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front; leaders of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Committee, departments, branches of Phu Yen province, localities and people in the province attending the ceremony.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will join delegates and local people in planting trees in Phu Thanh ward, Tuy Hoa city, Phu Yen province. Tuy An and Son Hoa districts will organize tree planting at the same time as the launching ceremony at the An Tho Citadel historical site, An Dan commune, Tuy An district - the birthplace of comrade Tran Phu, the first General Secretary of the Party and at the national historical site of Uncle Ho's Temple (Son Hoa district).
After the launch day, the remaining districts and towns of Phu Yen province will simultaneously plant trees.
The whole country joins hands and unites
In November 2020, speaking at the National Assembly, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc proposed an initiative to plant 1 billion trees in the 5 years from 2021 to 2025. On December 31, 2020, the Prime Minister signed and issued Directive No. 45/CT-TTg on organizing the "Tet Tree Planting" movement and strengthening forest protection and development from the beginning of 2021.
In order to promote the results achieved in recent years, overcome shortcomings and inadequacies, and proactively implement the work of managing, protecting, planting trees and afforesting right on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2021, the whole country joins hands and contributes to planting 1 billion new trees in the period of 2021 - 2025, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Heads of Government agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to organize the Tree Planting Festival to forever remember Uncle Ho, the Lunar New Year 2021 with the tree planting target 1.5 times higher and from 2022 to 2025 2 times higher than the results achieved in 2020.
In response to the Prime Minister's request, in January 2021, the Government Electronic Information Portal coordinated with the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Committee of Ben Tre province and related units to successfully organize the launching ceremony of planting 10 million trees in the province from socialized capital. Ben Tre became the first locality in the country to launch a response program, contributing to realizing the Prime Minister's initiative to plant 1 billion trees in the next 5 years, practically implementing the Tree Planting Festival according to Uncle Ho's instructions. The Prime Minister sent a letter of commendation to the Government Electronic Information Portal and Ben Tre province for this meaningful work.
Following Ben Tre, in recent days, a series of localities across the country have launched the Tet tree planting campaign to forever remember Uncle Ho in the spring of Tan Suu, and at the same time strongly responded to the Prime Minister's initiative to plant 1 billion new trees.
Phu Yen will plant 15 million new trees
Along with the whole country, in recent years, Phu Yen province has always paid attention to afforestation and ecological environment protection; the Tet tree planting movement to forever remember Uncle Ho has attracted a large number of cadres, party members and people in the province to participate. In the period of 2016-2020, Phu Yen has actively implemented concentrated afforestation of more than 32 thousand hectares, an average of nearly 6,500 hectares of forest/year; forest cover increased from 36.4% in 2015 to 45.09% in 2020.
In 2021, implementing the Prime Minister's initiative on planting 1 billion new trees and Directive No. 45/CT-TTg dated December 31, 2020 of the Prime Minister, Phu Yen province built and deployed the Project to plant 15 million new trees in the period of 2021-2025, at the same time encouraging households to plant, care for and protect trees themselves, contributing to greening the living environment.
Notably, the province will mobilize the maximum amount of socialized resources to organize the launching ceremony of the Tet Tree Planting Festival and implement the project of planting 15 million trees. It is expected that at the ceremony, the People's Committee of Phu Yen province will receive sponsorship from businesses and philanthropists for the above-mentioned tree planting project.
The Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and localities to encourage each person and each family to plant at least one shade tree, large timber tree, and landscape tree; proactively develop a plan for sustainable forest resource management and effectively implement the contents of restructuring the forestry sector, especially planting large timber trees and non-timber forest products under the forest canopy.
Chairman of Phu Yen Provincial People's Committee Tran Huu The said that the goal of the Project is that in the period from 2021 to 2025, the province will plant 12 million scattered trees and 3 million protective forest trees, and plant new production forests for large timber purposes; on average, the province will plant 3 million trees annually according to the Project, along with about 6,000 concentrated forest trees planted by the Management Boards of protective and special-use forests, economic organizations, households, individuals... contributing to environmental protection, increasing forest cover, creating beautiful natural landscapes, creating a clean environment, building Phu Yen province "green, clean, beautiful", worth living.
Mr. Le Tan Ho, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, added that in 2021, the province strives to increase the forest coverage rate to 46%. To achieve this goal, the province is implementing many different solutions, including encouraging organizations and individuals to respond to the Tet tree planting movement and participate in forest planting.
Planting 15 million new trees in Phu Yen province in the coming time is a meaningful work in many aspects, in which the people will be the beneficiaries, to have a better life, more prosperous and happier; at the same time, spreading this spirit, these good deeds to the majority of compatriots and people in localities for the tree planting and afforestation movement across the country.