This Day, That Year

Item from March 13, 1989, in China Daily: With spades and saplings, hundreds of thousands of people nationwide took part in the 11th national tree-planting campaign. ...

Although China's population makes up 20 percent of the world's total, its timber reserve makes up only 3 percent of the global forestry.

During the past four decades, people from all walks of life have participated in tree-planting events since China set March 12 as the National Tree-Planting Day in 1979.