Arbor Day or Tree Planting Day in China

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🌿March 12 is Arbor Day 植树节|植樹節 zhí shù jié or Tree Planting Day in China every year? 

📜China established Arbor Day in 1981 in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Originally, adults plant 3-5 trees every year. Nowadays, individuals, companies and non-profit organizations all join to plant trees or donate to raise awareness of China’s environmental problems. 

💰ALIPAY ( the world's largest mobile payment platform) has a campaign that users can turn their virtual green energy into a real tree and plant in some real areas in China by people supported by and its partners every year on Arbor Day 植树节|植樹節 zhí shù jié.

MORE FACTS

🌲One large tree can provide a day’s supply of oxygen for up to four people

🌴More than 20% of the worlds oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforest 

🌳Forest watersheds provides quality drinking water to more than 180 million American 

Join Mandy and Ellie to make a toilet paper roll tree craft.