Unilever Becomes 1st Foreign Firm to Plant Trees in QinghaiUnilever, one of the largest transnational companies in the world, launched a forestation project Monday in the capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province.Unilever is the first international company to plant trees in the province, where the Yangtze and Yellow rivers originate. Unilever (China) Co. Ltd. will donate 350,000 yuan to the local government for planting 100,000 trees in a bid for environmental protection. According to Unilever sources, the tree-planting project is merely a small part of its five-year environmental program launched this June, known as the "Unilever Living Environment Initiative: Clean Water and Green Mountains for China". In 2000, the first year for the five-year program, Unilever will donate seven million yuan to plant 500,000 trees across the country. Under the Unilever program, trees are to be planted in Beijing, Hebei Province, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and China's Three Gorges Area. |
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