Tree planting festival supports zero carbon National Games

Students engage in tree planting. [Photo/WeChat account: gz_nanshafabu]

The 7th Guangdong Forestry Tencent Netizen Tree Planting Festival was held at the Nansha Mingzhu Agricultural Park – located in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province – on March 2.

The event drew the participation of top athletes including Jiao Liuyang, champion of the women's 200m butterfly final at the 2012 London Olympics and Cai Qizi, gold medalist at the Trampoline World Championships in 2013 and 2015.

Together with 300 netizens, students and volunteers, they planted over 300 trees and shrubs to show their support for the "zero-carbon" National Games and the ecological conservation of a beautiful Guangdong.

The event was livestreamed, attracting over 880,000 online viewers and igniting widespread attention and enthusiasm for voluntary tree planting among the public.

Jiao highlighted the significance of the tree planting activity, saying that the upcoming 15th National Games were deemed to be of great significance to Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

"I hope that the athletes competing at the National Games can achieve outstanding results and I also hope sports in Nansha can flourish like the green trees," Jiao added.

The tree planting festival has been held for seven consecutive years now – mobilizing nearly one million netizens to participate in voluntary afforestation activities.

The Forestry Administration of Guangdong Province said at the event that it will launch voluntary tree planting activities across the province themed on the National Games and continue to encourage more people to take part.