Tree planting gets under way in green drive
By Huang Ying | China Daily | Updated: 2011-10-24 07:59
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Local people planting trees in a mountainous area in Southwest China's Sichuan province. It is the third carbon-offset project initiated by Novartis worldwide. The Swiss pharmaceutical company is paying for the planting of 10 million trees over four years, covering 4,328 hectares of deforested mountains in the province. Qiu Haiying / For China Daily |
XICHANG, Sichuan - The Swiss Pharmaceutical maker Novartis International AG has planted the first batch of 12,000 trees in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
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