Who are the Japanese who plant trees in China?

Toyama Seiichi (1907 ~ 2004): At the age of 83, Toyama, known as the "father of sand control in Japan", volunteered to plant trees in Kubuqi Desert in China. This species died in 14 and was called "sand control fool" from Japan.

Takashi Dalong: Head of Green Grid, a Japanese non-governmental environmental protection organization, in China. Since 2000, he has been engaged in the greening of Horqin Desert in Inner Mongolia. In the past ten years, Dalong has organized volunteers from Japan and China to plant 3.5 million trees and rebuilt 25,000 mu of green space for Horqin.

Japanese people come to China to plant trees and prevent sand in droves like ascetic monks, but China people seldom wake up to it and look on coldly.

Lu Tongjing, a photographer who once worked with Toyama Seiko, felt a lot: "They strictly followed every step of planting trees. The holes of saplings have strict depth and width, the distance between saplings, the distance between saplings and the softness of soil are all standardized processes. " To be on the safe side, they lay beside the tree pit and measured all the data. After the work is completed, shovels and other appliances will be cleaned, and no sundries will be left on the site. Everyone will consciously pick up the garbage and take it to the garbage station.

Before 1995, Lu Tongjing was an ordinary employee of Baotou Mining Bureau. At most, he was a photographer and didn't know much about environmental protection, although the desert was not far from him. Baotou is in the north of the Yellow River, and in the south is the Kubuqi Desert where Japanese old man Toyama sincerely planted trees.

Lu Tongjing was attracted by a report about Toyama Seiko in 1995 People's Daily. At that time, Toyama Seiichi had planted/kloc-0.00 million poplar trees in Kubuqi Desert, and called on the Japanese to "eat one meal less every week" and plant trees in China with the money saved in one year. The expenses of round-trip air tickets, saplings, accommodation and meals are all solved by ourselves. After planting trees, local villagers should be hired to take care of them until they become forests.

Toyama Seiichi: the first person to plant trees in China.

At that time, in Japan, Toyama Seiichi often stood on a stool and gave speeches at the gates of stations, docks and shopping malls, telling about the dangers of grassland desertification. "There are many deserts in China, and we need help badly." The volunteers on the side registered the books and then formed a team to go to Kubuqi.

In Lu Tongjing's view, some Japanese people come to China to plant trees, but Toyama is not. Besides planting trees, he also did a lot of environmental education, and also set up the "China Desert Japanese Greening Cooperation Team". "To solve environmental problems, we must play a game of chess in the world, and China is also helping itself by greening the desert", which is a phrase that Toyama Seiichi often talks about.

In order to cultivate tree species, Toyama Seiichi called on Japanese primary school students to pick up discarded Coke paper cups at stations and docks, collect them, arrange their good fortune and go to China. After arriving in Kubuqi Desert, they put seeds in them to raise seedlings.

In addition, he also called on Japanese children to "eat one less popsicle every week". Some children really can't come to China, so they carve their names on a bamboo card, ask volunteers to take the bamboo card to Kubuqi Desert, entrust relatives and friends to plant a tree for themselves, and then put the bamboo card next to the tree after planting.

After his first contact with Toyama Seiko, Lu Tongjing became an environmental volunteer. During the years from 1995 to 2000, he went to Kubuqi and Toyama Seiichi to plant trees at his own expense almost every spring. You need to stay in 45 yuan for one night, and it costs more than 20 yuan to eat every day. A few years later, Lu Tongjing himself could not count how much it cost to plant trees.

Almost all the volunteers who are sincere with Toyama are Japanese, and only Lu Tongjing is from China. "Although I don't understand Japanese, I can know what he means. He draws on the blackboard, and the size of the pit is understandable. " . Every time before planting trees, Toyama Seiko will give you a lesson. Every time, he will talk about the geography of China first, and then tell you how to plant trees.

Dalonglong: Take Toyama Seiichi's gun.

When Toyama Seiichi died in 2004, he had led Japanese volunteers to plant 3.4 million poplar trees in Kubuqi Desert south of the Yellow River Hetao in Inner Mongolia. In the Horqin Desert, the easternmost part of Inner Mongolia and the suburb of Tongliao, the work of another Japanese has just begun.

During the period of 1997, Japan felt the dust blown from China for the first time, and the dust storm gathered in Inner Mongolia actually crossed the Pacific Ocean and reached Japan. This year, Dalong Longsi just graduated from university, and he came to Yimeng (now Erdos City) in western Inner Mongolia for investigation. The severity of local desertification touched him, and he came up with the idea of planting trees and greening. After returning to Japan, he and his good friend Qi Teng Haruhiko established the Japanese "Green Net", a non-governmental organization whose main purpose is desert greening and desertification control.

They chose the work place of Green Net in Horqin Desert, the nearest desert to Japan, which is about 1500 kilometers away from Japan, and it takes three hours from Narita Airport to tongliao airport, the nearest to Horqin.

Dalonglong Temple now lives in Ganqika Town, Kezuohou Banner, Tongliao City, and the greening site is in Kulun Banner, which is only over 70 kilometers.

Traveling between home and desert, two pickup trucks sponsored by Zhengzhou Nissan Company became the best means of transportation.

In the eyes of Shen Huilian, a reporter from Horqin Metropolis Daily, Dalong is a very simple Japanese boy. Now Kezuo Houqi has become his second hometown. Not only did he learn the local dialect, but the relationship between Dalong Si Long and the local residents was no different from "fellow villagers". Every now and then, "What's the matter?" It always makes everyone laugh.

When Dalong first arrived in Kezuohouqi, most local people were puzzled. Why did a Japanese come all the way to this desert to plant trees? Some people speculate that oil has been found under this desert. More people think that Dalong will come to plant trees and sell wood in the future. Some people speculate that the Japanese area is too small to plant trees, so they go to China to engage in forestry and sell them back when the trees grow up.

Today, nearby villagers began to take the initiative to participate in voluntary tree planting activities organized by Green Net. In 2007, Dalong Si Long married a beautiful Manchu girl named Tu Xingwei, who used to be an employee of Green Net.

Since 1999, Greennet has completed afforestation of about 25,000 mu and planted about 3.5 million trees in Horqin Desert.

Unlike Toyama, which sincerely relies on the support of ordinary Japanese people, Takashi Dalong and his green net rely more on the strength of big companies. Since 200 1, Timberland, an American outdoor product company, has helped to plant nearly 654.38+0 million trees. They recruited consumers to Horqin by paying for accommodation and transportation.