March 21, 2022 is the 10th International Forest Day. The author learned from Guangdong forestry bureau that at present, the forest area of Guangdong Province has reached 158 million mu, the forest coverage rate is 58.74%, and the forest volume is 584 million cubic meters, showing a stable growth trend and ranking in the forefront of the country. According to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Forestry Bureau, the province will actively practice the concept of ecological civilization and deeply implement the green beauty Guangdong action. In 2022, 1.9 million mu of land greening and ecological restoration area will be completed, and projects such as afforestation of forestable wasteland, degraded forest and transformation and restoration of low-quality and inefficient forest will be implemented to benefit the people green and enrich the people ecologically. Afforestation and ecological restoration 1925100 Mu was completed last year In March of spring, all parts of Guangdong seized the good opportunity of afforestation in spring and carried out various forms of voluntary tree planting activities online and offline to plant new green patches in southern Guangdong. "For a long time, Guangdong has firmly taken the road of scientific, ecological and economical greening development, constantly explored new afforestation models, and steadily promoted land greening." According to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Forestry Bureau, in the 40 years since the implementation of national voluntary tree planting, our province has built theme forests such as youth forest, Thanksgiving forest, parent-child forest, volunteer forest and self-cultivation and happiness forest, with a total of more than 1.1 billion people participating in voluntary tree planting and more than 5 billion trees. In addition, Guangdong has also implemented afforestation on barren mountains, wastelands and beaches suitable for forestry, strengthened ecological restoration in key areas, started the construction of high-quality water source forests, and carried out the transformation of degraded forests, low-quality and inefficient forests. In 2021, Guangdong completed 1.9251 million mu of afforestation and ecological restoration throughout the year, including 1.0138 million mu of high-quality water source forest, 247800 mu of coastal shelter forest and 428800 mu of large-diameter timber. 100% of the key afforestation plans were implemented in the above figure to form accurate afforestation spatial data. The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Forestry Bureau disclosed that with the release and implementation of the opinions of the general office of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government on the implementation of scientific greening, our province will comprehensively promote the governance of landscape, forest, field, lake, grass and sand system, enhance the function of ecosystem and the supply capacity of ecological products, and improve the increment of ecosystem carbon sequestration has become an important work of forestry, so as to improve the quality and growth rate of scientific greening in our province. Moderate development of resource-friendly Ecotourism activities As Guangdong continues to accelerate the construction of forest cities, forest villages and greenways, the livable environment in urban and rural areas has been greatly improved. At present, Guangdong has built 11 National Forest cities, promoting nearly 1000 forest parks and wetland parks to be open to the public free of charge, and about 150 million people enjoy ecological benefits every year. Greening and beautification make the living environment more and more superior. How to better play the role of forests and shorten the distance between man and nature? On the one hand, Guangdong strives to build large-scale forest culture brand activities and nature education activities across the province, so as to promote more people to enjoy green ecological dividends. On the other hand, the whole province's tourism has blossomed at many points. Guangdong has built 100 forest tourism characteristic routes, 100 forest tourism emerging brand places and a number of forest families in southern Guangdong. By using the forest ecological environment, landscape resources, food and medicinal materials and ecological cultural resources, Guangdong has accelerated the development of forest health care industry focusing on forest recuperation, forest health care, forest pension, forest vacation and forest culture. The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Forestry Bureau revealed that next, Guangdong will adhere to greening for the people and benefit the people, deeply implement the green beauty Guangdong action and the forest head system, carry out urban and rural greening in a pragmatic and thrifty manner, rely on high-quality forest resources everywhere, continue to pay close attention to the construction of provincial-level forest ecological comprehensive demonstration parks, strengthen the construction of forest ecological culture, actively carry out ecological education and natural experience, and moderately develop resource-friendly ecotourism activities, Cultivate and develop forest tourism, forest health care, forest experience and other characteristic industries, and constantly promote the high-quality development of forest tourism. (Xinhua News Agency)