Special Report on National Greening Medal Winner Du Guoqiu ����The first National Greening Medal winner Du Guoqiu has planted 50 thousand trees and greened 1000 mu of desolate mountain land in the last 16 years. ����In 1983, Du bid farewell to his family and moved to Shiziggou to the east of Taihang Mountain range to plant trees. At that time, Shizigou was merely a barren mountain land without a single tree. But by his 16 years of sweat Du has changed it into a mountain land of greenery. The erstwhile serious problems as of water loss and soil erosion have been put under control and replaced by ecological balance. In 1996, Hebei Province had a torrential rainstorm, but there were only crystal clear water flows out of the place. ���� HomeNews 1999-01-22 Page5 Full Story in Chinese