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Xi urges citizens to plant trees

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2015-04-04 00:56Xinhua Editor: Wang Fan

习近平参加义务植树 强调环境问题依然严峻

中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平3日上午在参加首都义务植树活动时强调,植树造林是实现天蓝、地绿、水净的重要途径,是最普惠的民生工程。要坚持全国动员、全民动手植树造林,努力把建设美丽中国化为人民自觉行动。

Chinese President Xi Jinping (3rd, R) plants a sapling together with pupils during a tree-planting event in Sunhe Township of Chaoyang District in Beijing, capital of China, April 3, 2015. Top Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli attended a tree planting event in Beijing on Friday. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)

Chinese President Xi Jinping (3rd, R) plants a sapling together with pupils during a tree-planting event in Sunhe Township of Chaoyang District in Beijing, capital of China, April 3, 2015. Top Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli attended a tree planting event in Beijing on Friday. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)

President Xi Jinping has kicked off an afforestation campaign by urging citizens to plant trees.

While taking part in a tree-planting event in Beijing, Xi stressed that ensuring coverage by forests was key to people's livelihoods and efforts to make China greener and less polluted.

Xi cited successes in afforestation since the founding of the New China in 1949, but said that this work must be stepped up as the nation is faced with severe environmental challenges.

Every citizen is obliged to improve the environment and no piece of land is too small for trees, the president said.

He also called on people to preserve water and save grain "in order to build a resource-efficient and environment-friendly society where human beings and nature are in harmony".

Xi planted six seedlings, including ginkgo tree and midget crabapple, during the event, which was also joined by Chinese leaders Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli.

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