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China Aerially Plants 25 Million Ha of Trees in 5 Decades
China has aerially-planted over 25 million ha of trees since the country succeeded in the experiment of aerial tree planting in Guangdong Province in the 1950s.
This remark was made by Cai Yansong, the executive vice chairman of the China Green Foundation (CGF), in Yan'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, at the recent launching ceremony of a local aerial-tree-planting program with a donation of 580,000 yuan (70,000 U.S. dollars) by Unilever (China) Ltd., the Chinese branch of the transnational company. The company plans to plant 10,000 mu (about 666 ha.) of trees in Yan'an this year.
In his speech, Cai said that in 1980, a national leading group on afforestation and grass-planting was established to organize and coordinate tree and grass planting programs in the country. In Guangdong, the first province to afforest all local waste land that could be used to plant trees, 42 percent of its artificial forests were planted using aircraft, according to Cai.
The CGF official praised Unilever for its aerial-tree-planting program and said the foundation will try its best to join hands with local governments to make the program a model for other local enterprises. As the first company to fund aerial-tree-planting programs in China, Unilever this year will help aerially-plant 20, 000 mu (about 1,333 ha.) in the country, including another 10,000 mu in Chengde City, Hebei Province.
Yan'an is the first area in northwest China to experiment in aerial-tree-planting, and it in the past three decades has planted trees on 420,000 mu (28,000 ha.) of land with the help of aircraft, Cai said.
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