On Sunday, many provinces and cities across Viet Nam simultaneously held the annual New Year tree planting festival, initiated by the late President Ho Chi Minh in 1960.

Youths in Da Nang plant casuarina trees (Photo: thanhnien.vn)

In Bac Ninh Province, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and provincial authorities launched the festival, planting close to 57,000 trees. The province aims to 200,000 trees of different kinds in 2018.

Meanwhile, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee used the green event to kick off its 2018 month of youth in Quang Ninh Province's Ha Long City which spotlighted innovation and startups. On the day, local youths bedded out casuarina trees over 5 hectares of land, inaugurated a youth garden, and joined environmental cleaning activities along beaches and residential areas.

A similar launch of the youth month and tree-planting festival took place in Da Nang with the participation of 800 young people. The day saw 5,000 pine trees planted along coastal Nguyen Tat Thanh street in Thanh Khe District.

Nghe An Province also held a similar ceremony at the local national historical site Truong Buong to join the youth and tree-planting activities.

(Source: VNA)