Arbor Day is a festival that publicizes the protection of trees in accordance with the law and mobilizes the masses to participate in afforestation activities, and advocates that through such activities, people's enthusiasm for afforestation will be stimulated. The following is a summary of what is the significance of planting trees on Arbor Day, I hope it will help you!
The significance of Arbor Day
1. Afforestation can not only green and beautify homes, but also play a role in expanding mountain forest resources, preventing soil erosion, protecting farmland, regulating climate, and promoting economic development. In order to protect forestry resources, beautify the environment and maintain ecological balance, many countries in the world have set up Arbor Day according to their actual conditions. With the continuous enhancement of people's awareness of environmental protection and active participation in afforestation activities, the environment in which we live will be continuously improved.
2. In spring, everything recovers, which is the best season for afforestation. Afforestation not only beautifies the environment and improves air quality, but also improves the climate. The dense canopy can block the sun's rays, reflect about 20% of the heat back to the sky, and absorb 60%-70% of the heat by the canopy. In addition, the maintenance of plant transpiration also requires the absorption of a large amount of heat. Due to the high humidity of the air in the woods, the heat capacity is large, and the wind is small, so the temperature change is relatively slow.
Arbor Day History
In ancient China, there was a tradition of planting willows and trees during the Qingming Festival, and the earliest planting trees on the roadside in history was initiated by a person named Wei Xiaokuan from Shaanxi more than 1,400 years ago. Wei Xiaokuan (508-580 AD) was a famous general in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties, and a native of Jingzhao Duling (southeast of present-day Xi'an). According to the records of "Zizhi Tongjian", in the second year of the abolition of the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty (552 AD), Wei Xiaokuan was awarded the Yongzhou Assassin History for his military merits. Since ancient times, an earthen platform has been set up on the side of the road every other mile on the official road as a marker to calculate the mileage of the road, which is the current milestone. After Wei Xiaokuan took office, he found that there were many shortcomings of the earthen platform, which was easily collapsed by wind and sun, especially by rain, and needed to be repaired frequently, which not only increased the state's expenditure, but also caused the people to suffer from labor, which was time-consuming, laborious and inconvenient. After investigation and understanding, Wei Xiaokuan resolutely ordered that all the places where earthen platforms were set up on official roads in Yongzhou should be replanted with a locust tree to replace the earthen platform. This not only does it not lose its marking and metering function, but it also provides protection from the wind and rain for pedestrians, and does not need to be repaired. Wei Xiaokuan's practice is undoubtedly a major measure to benefit Sangzi, reduce the burden of the people in his hometown, and benefit the country and the people. Shaanxi as the earliest place in history to plant trees on the official road, once was the national road greening model, and Wei Xiaokuan first planted locust tree has been loved by people for thousands of years, especially Shaanxi people are more fond of this locust tree, very fond, and widely planted, now this locust tree has been as a symbol of Xi'an City, is determined to be the city tree.
The modern Arbor Day was first initiated by the state of Nebraska in the United States. Before the 19th century, Nebraska was a barren plain with sparse trees and yellow sand, and its people suffered. In 1872, Julius Sterling, a famous American agronomist, proposed that Arbor Day be established in Nebraska to mobilize the people to plant trees in a planned way. At that time, the state agriculture department adopted the proposal by resolution, and the governor himself designated the third Wednesday in April as Arbor Day every year. Over the next 16 years, another 600 million trees were planted, turning 100,000 hectares of Nebraska's wilderness into dense forests. In recognition of Moulton's exploits, in 1885 the State Assembly officially designated April 22, Mr. Moulton's birthday, as Arbor Day and a day off. Later, in 1932, the world's first Arbor Day stamp was issued, showing two children planting trees.
In the United States, Arbor Day is a state holiday with no national fixed date. But every month, every state in the United States organizes Arbor Day. For example, the state of Rode Ireland has Arbor Day on the second Friday of May and has one day off. Other states either have fixed dates, while others have annual ad hoc decisions on Arbor Day dates by the governor or other ** departments of the state. Whenever Arbor Day comes, people from all walks of life, mainly students, form a mighty tree planting army and participate in tree planting activities.
According to statistics, 1 3 areas of the United States are covered by forest trees, and this achievement is inseparable from Arbor Day.
Arbor Day results
One of the world's largest, most participatory, and most effective voluntary tree-planting campaigns has been running in China for more than 30 years. Over the years, no matter how busy they are with their work, no matter how busy they are, whether in Beijing or in other places, the leaders of the party and the state have conscientiously fulfilled their obligation to plant trees. Statistics show that since 1982, when the nationwide voluntary tree-planting campaign was launched, more than 10.4 billion people have participated in voluntary tree planting in China, and more than 49.2 billion trees have been planted on a voluntary basis.
The nationwide voluntary tree-planting campaign has strongly promoted the improvement of China's ecological situation. Before the campaign was launched, in 1981, China's forest area was 172.9 billion mu, the volume of standing trees is 102600 million cubic meters, with a forest coverage rate of 12%. After years of unremitting struggle, China's forest area has reached 26200 million mu, the volume of standing trees reached 1361.8 billion cubic meters, and the forest coverage rate increased to 1821%。In the face of the world's declining forest resources, China has achieved continuous growth of forest resources. The improvement of forest vegetation not only beautifies homes, reduces the harm of soil erosion and sandstorm to farmland, but also effectively improves the carbon storage capacity of forest ecosystems.
On the occasion of the 35th Arbor Day and the first International Day of Forests, the Office of the National Greening Committee today (11th) released the "2012 Communiqué on the Status of Land Greening in China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Communiqué"). According to the communiqué, China's per capita forest area and per capita park green space area are still relatively small, the development of afforestation and greening in regions and urban and rural areas is still unbalanced, and the task of consolidating the achievements of land greening is arduous.
Zhao Shucong, deputy director of the National Greening Committee and director of the State Forestry Administration, said here, "Green is the foundation of a beautiful China. Without forests and wetlands, how can we talk about the beauty of mountains and rivers? According to the communiqué, in 2012, a total of 600 million people participated in various forms of voluntary tree planting activities across the country, planting 2.6 billion trees. By the end of 2012, 13.9 billion people had participated in voluntary tree planting nationwide, and 64 billion trees had been planted.
According to the statistics of the State Forestry Administration, China planted 6.01 million hectares of forests last year, of which 2.74 million hectares were afforested in key forestry projects, accounting for 456%。Up to now, the green coverage area of urban built-up areas across the country is 17190,000 hectares, an increase of 1070,000 hectares; The per capita area of park green space in the city is 118 square meters, an increase of 06 square meters. The green coverage rate and green space rate of urban built-up areas have reached 39 respectively2% and 353%。