Prime Minister launches New Year tree planting festival
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister
Pham Minh Chinh offered incense to President Ho Chi Minh and launched the annual New Year
tree planting festival at K9-Da Chong relic site, Hanoi’s outlying district of
Ba Vi, on January 27, the sixth day of the Year of the Cat.
Co-organised by the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment, the Ministry of National Defence and Hanoi municipal
authorities, the tree planting festival started a series of activities nationwide
for the programme “For a green Vietnam” with an aim to plant 22.5 million trees
this year.
Speaking at the event, PM Chinh recalled that 64
years ago, President Ho Chi Minh called on the entire people to respond to the
tree planting month which has become a tradition every lunar new year since then.
According to him, Vietnam’s forest coverage expanded from 28% in 1990 to over 42% in 2022, absorbing over 70 million tonnes
of carbon dioxide.
The PM highlighted Vietnam's commitment to achieve net zero by 2050 and expressed his belief that the tree
planting campaign 2023 will produce positive achievements, helping the country deliver its commitment and contributing to
national development.
At the launch ceremony, he joined delegates in planting 3,000 trees at the relic site./.