"Arbor Day" is some countries in the form of law to publicize the benefits of forests, and mobilize the masses to participate in afforestation as the content of the activities of the holiday. According to the length of time can be divided into tree-planting day, tree-planting week or tree-planting month, always called Tree Planting Day. Through such activities, it stimulates people's feelings of love for forests and afforestation, raises people's awareness of the functions of forests, promotes the greening of the national territory, and achieves the purpose of love for forests and protection of forests as well as the expansion of forest resources and the improvement of the ecological environment. In order to mobilize all the people to plant trees and the festival. 1979 February 23, the fifth session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China decided at its sixth meeting, still March 12 as China's Tree Planting Day, in order to encourage people of all ethnic groups in the country to plant trees and forests, greening the motherland, improve the environment, and to benefit future generations.

The origin of Arbor Day

March 12 is China's own Arbor Day, and at the same time, this day is also the anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death. Dr. Sun attached great importance to forestry construction during his lifetime, when he was the provisional president of the Republic of China, he set up the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, under the Department of Forestry, in charge of the national forestry administration, in November 1914 promulgated the first "Forestry Law" in China's modern history, and in July 1915, the government stipulated that every year the "Ching Ming Festival" as a tree planting day.

In February 1979, the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, on the proposal of the State Council, adopted a resolution to designate March 12 as the Tree Planting Day in China, which was meant to mobilize people of all ethnic groups to actively plant trees and accelerate the pace of greening the motherland and all forestry construction. To designate the day of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death as Arbor Day in China is also to pay tribute to his great achievements and to symbolize that the last wish of Dr. Sun, which he failed to realize during his lifetime, will be realized and better realized in the new China.

Origin of Arbor Day

Chinese ancient in the Qingming Festival on the willow planting tradition, and modern Arbor Day was first initiated by the United States of America's Nebraska. 19th century, Nebraska is a bare wilderness, few trees, dry land, the wind together, yellow sand, the people suffered greatly. 1872, the United States of America's famous agriculturist Julius Sterling Morton proposed the establishment of the Nebraska State Parks and Recreation Center, the Nebraska State Parks and Recreation Center, and the Nebraska State Parks and Recreation Center, and the Nebraska State Parks and Recreation Center. Sterling Morton, a famous American agronomist, proposed to establish an Arbor Day in Nebraska to mobilize the people to plant trees in a systematic way. At that time, the State Board of Agriculture adopted this proposal through a resolution, and the governor himself stipulated that the third Wednesday of April each year for the future Arbor Day. After this decision was made, millions of trees were planted that year. Over the next 16 years, another 600 million trees were planted, finally turning 100,000 hectares of Nebraska wilderness into dense forests. In recognition of Moulton's achievements, the state legislature in 1885 officially designated April 22, Mr. Moulton's birthday, as the annual Arbor Day, with a one-day holiday.

In the United States, Arbor Day is a state holiday with no nationally set date. But every year in April and May, each state in the United States to organize Arbor Day activities. For example, the state of Rhode I reland has set the second Friday of May as Arbor Day, with a one-day vacation. Other states have fixed dates, or the date of Arbor Day is decided on an ad hoc basis every year by the governor or other government departments of the state. Whenever Arbor Day comes, people from all walks of life, mainly students, form a vast army of tree-planting activities.

According to statistics. The United States has 1/3 of the area covered by forest trees, the results of this with the Arbor Day is inseparable.