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State President launches New Year tree planting festival in Tuyen Quang

State President Vo Van Thuong launched a New Year tree planting festival in Tuyen Quang city of the province of the same name on February 15, or the sixth day of the first lunar month.
State President launches New Year tree planting festival in Tuyen Quang ảnh 1State President Vo Van Thuong speaking at ceremony to launch tree planting festival (Photo: VNA)
Tuyen Quang (VNA) – State President VoVan Thuong launched a New Year tree planting festival in Tuyen Quang city of theprovince of the same name on February 15, or the sixth day of the first lunarmonth.

The annual activity has been held on theLunar New Year – the biggest festival in a year of Vietnamese people.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Nguyen Quoc Tri said that his ministry and localities have beendetermined to bring the Prime Minister's project of planting a billion trees inthe 2021 - 2025 period to the finish line on time.

In the 2021 – 2023 period, the country plantednearly 770 million trees.

State President launches New Year tree planting festival in Tuyen Quang ảnh 2State President Vo Van Thuong attends ceremony to launch tree planting festival (Photo: VNA)
Speaking at the launching ceremony,President Thuong said that since 1960, Vietnam has been holding the tree planting festivalevery spring in response to late President Ho Chi Minh’s appeal.

Planting trees has contributed to protecting the ecological environment,improving landscapes, proactively dealing with natural disasters and climatechange, promoting socio-economic development, and bettering the quality of people’slife.

On the same day, the State leader attended a ceremony to inaugurate a roadlinking Tuyen Quang city to Yen Son district centre./.
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