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China's billion tree forest program is environmental lesson for the world

Three-North Shelter Forest Program aimed to grow 35 million hectares (87 million acres) of new trees-a forest the size of Germany-across the country's north by 2050

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Officials cut down millions of infected trees, some of which ended up being turned into packing crates for China’s burgeoning international trade.

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6 min read Last Updated : Sep 14 2020 | 1:24 PM IST

Few environmental campaigns in China have been so enthusiastically pursued or so controversial as its Great Green Wall.

Every spring, government officials, teachers, students, and company employees go on group tree-planting trips. State media single out forest workers for praise. Film stars line up to be “tree-planting ambassadors.” It’s a campaign in the vein of the old Communist propaganda drives—the workers uniting to dominate the forces of nature. March 12 is National Tree-Planting Day.

Launched in 1978 to protect the north, northwest, and northeast, three regions affected by sandstorms sweeping out of the Gobi Desert, the so-called Three-North Shelter Forest Program aimed

Topics : Climate Change Environment China Trees

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