CCTV News:A few days ago, the Ninth Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps set off a nationwide tree planting craze. Different from previous years, this year’s "project tree" was planted.
In 2022, the pilot demonstration project of the ninth division’s land greening organized by the Finance Bureau of the Corps and the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the Corps passed the competitive evaluation and won the support of 200 million yuan from the central government for forestry reform and development. This is the first time that the autonomous region and the Corps have successfully applied for the national land greening pilot demonstration project.
It is reported that this project, combined with the overall objectives of the Corps and the Ninth Division’s "Tenth Five-Year Plan" development plan, based on the landscape pattern and resource advantages of the Ninth Division, has planted Ulmus pumila, Populus alba, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Hippophae rhamnoides and other measures in more than 3,600 plots of 91 companies in 10 regiments in the whole division through artificial afforestation, artificial grass planting, restoration of degraded forests, closing hillsides to facilitate afforestation, forest tending and restoration and treatment of degraded grasslands.
Wang Zhonghua, director of the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau of the Ninth Division, said that the implementation of this project will continuously improve the regional ecological environment quality, significantly enhance the ecological carrying capacity, increase the forest coverage rate by 0.26 percentage points, and increase the grassland comprehensive vegetation coverage rate by 0.4 percentage points, which is of great significance for restoring and improving the regional ecological environment in the northwest border areas, enhancing the growth potential of forest and grass carbon sinks, and achieving a win-win situation in social, economic and ecological benefits.
In order to promote the project construction with high quality and high standard, the Ninth Division set up a project work coordination group, established an organizational system in which the main leaders of the Party and government take overall responsibility, the relevant departments perform their respective duties and are responsible for division of labor, scientifically formulated a greening plan, improved the project fund use system, and decomposed the project construction into specific implementation units according to the principle of territorial responsibility according to the year and region. At the same time, the Implementation Plan for Full Implementation of Forest Length System in the Ninth Division was issued, and a three-level forest length system was established at division, regiment and company levels.
At present, according to the principle of "one group, one product", all regimental farms organize enterprises, cooperatives and workers to participate in the construction, and plan to complete the tree planting work by the end of April. (Reporter Yan Huimin)