Ginkgo is a treasure, with high economic value and medicinal value, ginkgo for the prehistoric relics, to the fall of a golden, solid and "golden fossil" said. After the relics of the modern ginkgo, after more than a million years of various climatic environments, not only showed a strong ability to adapt to life, but also in the form of so far very little change, so some people say that the ginkgo is an incredible plant. Scientists believe that the study of the origin, evolution and development of ginkgo, has a very important theoretical value and practical meaning.
In 1983, Forests and People magazine launched the selection of China's National Tree, and the conditions for the selection were:
1, the tree has a far-reaching influence on the Chinese people.
2. The tree symbolizes the character of the Chinese people.
3. The tree should be widely distributed in the land of China.
4. The tree has significant scientific research value and economic value.
The result of the selection was that the ginkgo came in second place after the pine tree. But experts and scholars in forestry, botany and ecology still believe that, by any measure, the ginkgo deserves to be China's national tree. Especially in symbolizing the ancient history of the Chinese nation, ancient culture and the national spirit of going forward, perseverance. The ginkgo has more priority than the pine tree to represent the qualifications.
In this selection, although the ginkgo is ranked after the pine tree, ranked second, but forestry, arboriculture, ecology, silviculture, forestry economics, genetics, forestry history, history of agriculture, medicine and other areas of a large number of experts and scholars, are unanimous in the selection of ginkgo as the national tree of China. Because the pine tree is not unique to China, the world's five continents are widely distributed, the lack of representative and symbolic, and seldom see more than 1,000 years of pine, its resistance, reproduction, economic and human values can not be compared with the ginkgo.
As early as 1942, Guo Moruo published an article in the "Xinhua Daily", for the first time put forward the ginkgo as the national tree initiative. He praised the ginkgo as "China's humanities with a living memorial tower" and "the saint of the East", and expressed "you should be called China's national tree" of the heart, in the Guo old man together with his wife On the signboard next to the ginkgo tree transplanted by Mr. Guo and Mrs. Yu Liqun in the courtyard, the words "China's National Tree" are still written. This is Mr. Guo Shuruo elected ginkgo as the national tree cast the first vote ah!
In 1994, the National People's Congress, the second session of the eighth will "recommend the ginkgo as the national tree" as a motion 455, and transferred to the Ministry of Forestry to deal with. The Ministry of Forestry has also given a reply to the official document, said to seriously study, properly handled, and strive to determine our national tree. 1995, the National People's Congress of the eighth session of the third meeting and the ninth session of the National People's Congress, some of the National People's Congress deputies and experts and put forward as soon as possible to determine the ginkgo for China's national tree "," the apricot is recommended as a national tree "and other motions.
In 1999, held in Badong County, Three Gorges Reservoir in Hubei Province, the eighth National Symposium on Ginkgo and in August of the same year in Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang Province, and in May 2000, the origin of the ginkgo in Sichuan, Guizhou Province, hundreds of experts and scholars have issued a strong appeal to the beginning of the 21st century, recommending the ginkgo for the National Tree as an important theme to be discussed.
In 2001, in Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, held the tenth National Symposium on the ginkgo, more than 300 experts and scholars from all over the country and once again issued the enjoyment of the "living fossil" known as the ginkgo tree to determine the national tree of China's appeal, it is recommended that our country as soon as possible to determine their own national tree.
China Ginkgo Research Association, vice president of the Linxie said, for Beijing to bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, we put forward to the world, "Science and Technology Olympics, Green Olympics, the humanistic Olympics," the theme, China should be determined to determine the national tree on the agenda for the Olympic Games.
In recent years, along with the increasingly in-depth research on the ginkgo, as well as vigorously develop and utilize the ginkgo and its own ecological, social, economic and other values, in the country, especially in the academic community, recommending ginkgo for the National Tree of the call is getting higher and higher, and more and more by the common people's recognition and love, and by the world's attention.
This year, approved by the relevant departments, our country formally carried out the national tree, national flower, national bird selection activities, we will look forward to waiting for the results of the selection.