Tree-planting in Ho Chi Minh city (Source: tuoitre.vn)

The delegation, including Vice Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan, and Deputy Head of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Commission of Popularization and Education Le Van Minh, took part in the event at Hung Long secondary school in Binh Chanh district.

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Chairman of City People's Committee Vo Van Hoan said that tree planting is one of the city’s important missions associated with its comprehensive development. In 2020, the city planted 50 hectares of forests with more than 350,000 green trees.

The Vice Chairman appreciated the efforts of the departments, districts and people through the city which actively participated in environmental sanitation preservation, forest protection and development, tree planting campaigns, and development of the city’s green spaces in recent years.

He asked everyone, especially cadres and civil servants, to plant at least one tree in their localities in response to the PM's call to plant one billion trees in the period of 2021 – 2025.

On this occasion, 16 communes and towns of Binh Chanh District have registered to plant 16,000 trees as part of the tree-planting campaign with the theme      “Forever grateful to Uncle Ho”./.

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