 Ha Noi (VNA) - State President Nguyen Minh Triet on Feb. 22 launched a national tree-planting campaign in commemoration of President Ho Chi Minh who initiated the annual movement in the spring of 1960.
At the launching ceremony in Soc Son district, outskirts of Ha Noi, President Triet said: "Uncle Ho 47 years ago called people all walks of life to take part in a tree-planting festival, which has become a cultural tradition in every spring of the Vietnamese people."
He urged the whole Party, nation, armed forces and people to exert efforts in planting trees and protecting forests in order to fulfil the targets of the national socio-economic development, and to build Viet Nam a "green, clean and beautiful" country.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam in 2006 planted 153,000 ha of concentrated forests and 142 million trees, raising the forest coverage rate to 37.5 percent.
On the occasion, naval soldiers of the Naval Zone 4 in Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes started a drive to plant trees on sea coasts to prevent waves from hitting their stations.
On Feb. 21, the first day of the drive, they planted over 1,000 trees around their stations and on the sea coasts. The soldiers expect to plant more than 2,000 trees on Cam Ranh peninsula and Truong Sa archipelago during the drive.
Over recent years, the naval soldiers have planted dozens of thousands of pines, casuarinas and eucalyptus on white-sand hills and sea coast to stop waves.-Enditem
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