Implementation Rules for the National Voluntary Tree Planting Campaign in Guangdong Province (revised in 1997)

1. The province has established a greening committee to uniformly lead the province’s voluntary tree planting movement and the entire greening work. The Provincial Greening Committee is composed of the main leading comrades of the provincial government and the Provincial Military Region, the Provincial Agricultural Committee, the Planning Commission, the Economic Committee, the Construction Committee, the Science and Technology Committee, the Forestry Department, the Urban Construction Bureau, the Water and Electricity Department, the Transportation Department, the Environmental Protection Bureau, the General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation, the Education Department, and the Electric Power Bureau It is composed of responsible comrades from the Association for Science and Technology, the Department of Finance, the Overseas Chinese Farm Administration, the Guangzhou Railway Bureau, the Provincial Committee of the Youth League, the Provincial Women's Federation, and the Federation of Trade Unions. The office is located in the Provincial Forestry Department.

The Guangzhou Railway Bureau, the Provincial Overseas Chinese Farm Administration, the General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Water and Electricity should each establish a greening committee to be responsible for studying and deploying voluntary tree planting and afforestation work in their respective departments.

All regional administrative offices, autonomous prefectures, cities, and counties and autonomous county people's governments (revolutionary committees) should establish greening committees to uniformly lead the voluntary tree planting movement and the entire afforestation and greening work within their respective scopes. Greening committees at all levels should be chaired by the main leading comrades of the government, and should be attended by responsible comrades from relevant units. The office is located in the competent department of the government at the same level, and is equipped with three to five staff members, and the staffing is adjusted by each locality. All towns, people's communes, and enterprises and institutions with larger afforestation and greening tasks should also establish greening leading groups. 2. Greening committees at all levels should use various forms to widely publicize to the cadres and the masses the resolution of the Fourth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress on Carrying out the National Voluntary Tree Planting Movement and the State Council's "On Carrying out the National Compulsory Tree Planting Movement" "Implementation Measures" and these Implementation Rules, publicize the great significance of tree planting and greening for maintaining and improving the ecological environment, and building socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization, timely disseminate advanced experience, carry out praise and criticism, and enable citizens throughout the province to establish a sense of participation With a sense of glory and responsibility in voluntary tree planting, everyone takes action and plants trees every year, so as to carry out the national voluntary tree planting movement in a down-to-earth manner and contribute to the early greening of the motherland.

Since 1982, March every year has been the month of voluntary tree planting activities in urban and rural areas of our province. It also advocates voluntary tree planting on weddings, commemorative festivals, and days with commemorative significance (such as joining the team, joining the league, joining the party, enrollment and graduation of college students, etc.). The specific location, quantity and method of tree planting shall be arranged by local greening departments. 3. All citizens of this province, men aged 11 to 60 years old and women aged 11 to 55 years old, except those who have lost the ability to work, shall undertake the task of voluntary tree planting. Citizens over the age of 18 are required to plant three to five trees per year, work as a contractor, or complete other greening tasks such as seed collection, seedling raising, land preparation, flower planting, grass planting, etc. with a corresponding amount of labor. Young people aged 11 to 17 should be assigned greening work within their capabilities based on their actual situation.

The number of people participating in voluntary tree planting in each unit (including central, provincial, and regional units stationed in the local area) shall be reported to the local greening committee based on actual statistics. When greening committees at all levels assign voluntary tree planting tasks to each unit, they must determine specific indicators based on the requirement of planting three to five trees per person per year. Responsibility areas can be divided according to units and responsible for land preparation, seedling cultivation, tree planting and management and maintenance; other greening tasks can also be assigned according to the appropriate amount of labor (tentatively one working day). The greening committee assigns tasks to each unit, which can be done for a certain year or for a certain number of years. 4. Voluntary tree planting work is limited to the construction of state-owned forests and collective forests within the jurisdiction of the county (city); rural members are limited to the scope of the commune. Government agencies, groups, schools, enterprises, institutions and urban residents, in addition to greening their own residences, should also undertake social tree planting tasks assigned by the greening committee. The labor for voluntary tree planting should be arranged nearby. The greening committee must make unified plans for areas and projects where voluntary tree planting is required.

Cities should give priority to greening public places such as scenic tourist areas, historical sites, main streets, and suburban areas. Urban construction planning must include greening planning, housing construction investment must include greening investment, and the acceptance of housing construction projects must also include the acceptance of greening projects. The construction of railways, highways, hydropower, and waterway improvement projects should also include the construction of greening projects.

Agencies, groups, schools, enterprises, institutions and urban residents should green and beautify their residential areas within two or three years.

Rural areas in the plains should work hard to green the "four sides" and construct farmland protection forests; rural areas in mountainous areas should, while working hard to green the "four sides", can build voluntary mountainous areas in community forest farms or collectives. A forest of trees.

Along railways, highways, along major rivers, and around reservoirs, the railway, transportation, water and electricity departments and local greening committees will study, clarify responsibilities, formulate plans, and take measures to realize greening as soon as possible. 5. The trees, flowers and plants planted on urban public areas using voluntary labor shall be owned and managed by the urban construction department or the gardening department; the trees, flowers and plants planted on the Wei Town public areas shall belong to the town government or the people's commune. The trees, flowers and plants planted by agencies, groups, schools, enterprises and institutions in their residences and jurisdictions are owned and managed by agencies, groups, schools, enterprises and institutions respectively; they are obliged to do so within the jurisdiction of railways and highways. The trees planted are owned and managed by these departments; the trees planted voluntarily on the land owned by rural communes and brigade collectives are owned by the mountainous commune brigade collectives, and the ownership commune brigade runs the forest farm or organizes professional management and protection; in the reservoir The woods planted around it belong to the owners of the mountain land. If there is another agreement or contract in any of the above situations, the agreement or contract should be followed. For forest rights units, the people's government at or above the county level will issue a call letter to effectively protect their legitimate rights and interests.