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Feb 20, 1984

Green fund launched

With national tree-planting day, March 12 approaching, the Central Greening Committee decided to establish a "Green China Fund" and adopted an official emblem. The fund will be open to donations by people at home and abroad for planting trees.

To speed up tree planting, the State Council has taken new policies, under which 16.67 million hectares of hilly lands have been allocated to 50 million rural households in recent years as their private plots.

The responsibility system has been extended to tree planting in 80 percent of the brigades and production teams, and specialized tree planting households and joint economic entities specializing in forestation have appeared.

Zhu wins national athletes poll

Collecting more than 99 percent of the 597,990 votes in a nation-wide poll, Zhu Jianhua, men's world high jump record holder, headed the list of China's 10 Best Athletes of 1983. The 20-year-old Shanghai jumper twice rewrote the world record book in 1983.

The second, third, fourth and fifth best are: Wu Shude, who set a weightlifting world best in 1983; woman basketball player Song Xiaobo; Lang Ping of China's world champion volleyball team; and Xu Yongjiu, winner of a gold medal in the World Cup Walking Championships in 1983.

(China Daily 02/19/2009 page9)