Responding to the Tet tree-planting festival in Phu Thinh commune, Yen Binh district, Yen Bai province. (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)

At the event, leaders of the Yen Bai City People’s Committee asked all officials, party members and people to continue popularizing and organizing extensive emulation movements on planting trees in order to achieve the highest target of urban greening and afforestation by 2022 in association with building new-style rural areas and civilized city.

The event also aims to raise the sense of responsibility, awareness of environmental protection, sense of protection of trees in public areas, schools, protection and development of concentrated forests, scattered trees, and urban green trees; and jointly prevent deforestation, cut down trees, protect the ecological environment.

Currently, the forest coverage rate of Yen Bai reaches more than 63%. By the end of 2025, the province strives to achieve 65% coverage.

Yen Bai will continue to plant 32,822 million new trees, including more than 25 million scattered trees and 7,822 million trees planted in protective and special-use forests./.

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