植树节是一些国家以法律规定宣传保护树木,并动员群众参加以植树造林为活动内容的节日。按时间长短可分为植树日,植树周或植树月,总称国际植树节。
Arbor planting Festival is a festival in which some countries publicize and protect trees according to law and mobilize the masses to participate in the activities of afforestation. According to the length of time, it can be divided into tree planting day, tree planting week or tree planting month, which is called International Tree Planting Day.
通过这种活动,激发人们爱林,造林的热情,提高人们对森林爱护的认识,促进国土绿化,达到爱林护林和扩大森林资源,改善生态环境的目的。
Through these activities, people's enthusiasm for forest protection and afforestation will be stimulated, people's awareness of forest protection will be raised, land greening will be promoted, and the purpose of forest protection, forest resources expansion and ecological environment improvement will be achieved.
中国的植树节开始时是为纪念孙中山先生逝世,1979年2月23日,中国第五届全国人大常务委员会第六次会议决定,仍以3月12日为中国的植树节,以鼓励全国各族人民植树造林,造福子孙后代。
China's Arbor Day commemorates the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. At the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress on February 23, 1979, it was decided that March 12 should still be China's Arbor Day to encourage people of all ethnic groups to plant trees for the benefit of future generations.