Add Forest and Green Hand in Hand

On the morning of April 12th, the Provincial, Municipal Leaders of Communist, Government and Army Forces, cadres of government agency of Jingyue Development Area and students of middle and primary school, are over 500 in all, who join in Activity of Compulsory Tree Planting of Spring In Changchun Jingyue Lake, adding 4 hectares green trees more for Jingyue Lake and planting 10,000trees.

This activity takes really strengthening the ecological protection, improving the environmental quality, and increasing the ecological environmental-protection ideas of all the people of National Scenic Spot of Jingyue Lake and takes the spirit of “constructing harmonious society, creating ecological Jingyue”, and carrying forward “Greening Changchun, Loving Our Home” as general tenor. When Wang Yunkun, the secretary of Jilin Provincial Committee of CPC, takes part in planting, he says, “the male citizen at the age of 11 years old to 60 years old and the female citizen at the age of 11 years old to 55 years old should have the obligation to plant trees, and every person should plant 3 to 5 trees each year, to recover our ecological environment, and beautify our life.” On the very day, Wang Guofa, Wang Rulin, Li Shu, Zhu Yejing and some other Provincial and Municipal leaders have joined into the activity.

Jingyue Development Area covers 478.7 square kilometers, and some of it, the area of forest and water is 243 square kilometers, which is the “green bright pearl” of Changchun City, having the important functions for maintaining the ecological balance and improving the ecological quality of Changchun City. Therefore, protecting and constructing the rare ecological resources well is the most important task for the development area. In order to enlarge continuously the scale of the forest of Jingyue Development Area, optimize further the ecological quality, since 2003, the development area has started up the construction project of ecological environment of Jingyue Lake that takes the returning land for farming to forestry as the main, which lasts for 8 years and is invested by RMB1.8 billions Yuan. Up to now, RMB 0.12 billions Yuan has been invested, and in the core scenic spot of Jingyue Lake, 518 hectares state-owned land have been taken back, 2 square kilometers has been finished to create forest, so the ecological environment of Jingyue Lake has been improved obviously.
Enlarging the forest resources and optimizing the ecological environment are the premise relating to survival and development of Jingyue Development Area, and are also the main idea of “Forest City” constructed by Changchun City. During the period of “the 11th five-year plan”, Jingyue Development Area will closely surround the aim of constructing new ecological-type modern city, consider the mountain, water and forest and some other ecological factors as a whole, uniform to plan, promote simultaneously, and use a high standard to develop the job of creating forest and greening, which contributes largely to the ecological construction all over the city. The main working aim is: finish 35 square kilometers returning land for farming to forest, create 29 square kilometers forest phase; increase 320 ten thousand square meters urban green land; construct 10 compulsory tree-planting bases, whose area is 1.2 square kilometers. 
The year of 2006 is the beginning year of “the 11th five-year plan”, and the ecological construction of Jingyue Development Area will grasp four aspects of jobs well.
The first one is to promote actively the project of returning land for farming to forest, to finish the removal of 5 enterprises and institutions and 7 villages, 505 residences, and create 5 square kilometers forest. Some of it, 1 square kilometer is returned from farming to create forest by farmers voluntarily; 4 square kilometers is developed to plant tree and create forest using the returned land by villages and enterprises and institutions, constructing three scenic zone: Red-leaves valley, apricot-flower valley, and birch forest.
The second one is to quicken the reform of national important public forest. In the national important public forest area, Jingyue Lake Experimental Forest Field and Xinlicheng Reservoir Forest Field, 65 hectares are arranged to create forest, increasing the amount of green forest largely. 
The third one is to use social power to create the rural forest well. Through the guidance of policy, absorb widely in the social power and finish the low-quality and low-efficient forest land, and 40 hectares are used to create forest in eroded forest of farmer.
The fourth one is to complete the urban greening system. According to the greening and beautifying aim of “green walking along the road, green transferring with water”, finish the greening of four standard streets and roads, build up Fengye square, two ecological sights, adopt ecological disposal method to construct 2 waterfront greening zones, and finish the greening of sight along the Light Rail of Jingyue Street.