This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-03-12 07:23
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
March 12, 1980 marked the country's first National Tree Planting Day to raise public awareness of environmental protection.
At that time, drought and excessive lumbering with little awareness of conservation had diminished water resources and caused soil erosion as well as desertification.
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