How-to China: Tree-planters turn barren mountains green

About the interviewee

Li Zhenhai, one of Hulunbuir's pioneers in entrepreneurship for farmers and herders, was once elected as a deputy to the People's Congress of Inner Mongolia autonomous region and and the city's as well.

He was born on Aug 30 in 1944 in Shandong province. In 1973, he moved to Daur. He started afforestation in 1984, which he still pursues to this day.

In all, he has personally completed the afforestation of more than 2,000 mu of land and has planted more than 600,000 trees – realizing an estimated economic value of 100 million yuan and an ecological value of 300 million yuan.

Over the years, he has donated saplings worth more than 4 million yuan to society. He has been conferred the title of National Model of Greening and Afforestation, has received the National Green Gold Great Wall Medal, and has been made a Moral Model of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Editors: Shan Juan, Wang Jianfen and Liu Ming