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During the golden holiday week in May, instead of taking holidays as most people did throughout the country, the officers and men of an artillery regiment of the Beijing Military Area Command went together with local people to plant trees at the Yungang Valley and Luye Yuan in Datong City, a tourist spot in northern China's Shanxi Province. They planted over 260 mu of pine trees and cypress trees and enabled the world-class cultural relics-Yungang Grotto, to be wrapped in lush green. The shelterbelt they built would become a solid green ecological environment protection screen to check the wind and prevent further desertification for the plateau beyond the Great Wall. It is learned that in the past three years, the regiment has sent over 1,000 person/times and 200 truck/times to participate in tree planting activities and planted altogether 100,000 trees around Yungang Grotto with survival rate of trees amounting to 85%.
By Zheng Ming and Liu Baogang
(June 1, PLA Daily)
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