The spring and scenery are bright, and the wind is smooth, and it is another good time for planting trees.

On April 3, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the bank of the Yongding River in Fengtai District, Beijing. During the season when all things are growing, he planted green hope with the cadres and the masses.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

The camera of Xinhua News Agency reporter recorded such a warm moment: the General Secretary and the Young Pioneers worked together to shovel soil to build pits, cultivate soil cofferdams, and lift water to water. Under the bright spring light, seedlings are arranged in an orderly manner, and the bright red scarfs set off the cute little faces, making a passionate labor scene.

Since 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping has participated in voluntary tree planting in the capital for 13 consecutive years. He always works with the children while caring about everyone's study and life.

The familiar reminders are still in my ears: "Be careful with your hands", "Slow down, don't shovel to your feet", "We water the saplings together, and in fact we are watering you," "I have helped them straighten them since I was a child"...

This time, the General Secretary cordially encouraged the children: "A better life is created by labor. The majority of young people should love labor and love nature, actively participate in public welfare activities such as afforestation, exercise their bodies, temper their will, and increase their knowledge in labor, and achieve the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor."

In the earnest message, there is careful care for the healthy growth of children, reminders to cultivate their sense of labor since childhood, and expectations for the comprehensive development of the "small seedlings" of the motherland, which will bring rain and moisten people's hearts.

"I want to have multiple trees in the future" "I will exercise well and grow up healthily"... The children talked about their feelings about participating in tree planting with Grandpa Xi. Green seeds are sown in the heart, and the ideal of becoming a talent is sprouting in the heart.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

Ancient saying goes: Ten years of trees, hundreds of years of trees are planted. Trees and people, raising seedlings and raising people contain a deep grasp and understanding of time.

A sapling grows into a towering tree. It requires soil fertilization from a young age to grow upright and upright. This is the law of nature. If a person wants to become a pillar of the country, he also needs to be educated from an early age, "button the first button of his life", this is the law of society.

"Children's education is like planting trees. It must be upright from the beginning, otherwise it will grow in a crooked way." The General Secretary's words are full of hope for the future of the motherland.

Last month, during the National Two Sessions, at the CPPCC joint group meeting, the General Secretary's speech on education was far-reaching and resounding.

"Education must focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, adhere to moral education first, and integrate moral education into the entire process of intellectual education, sports, aesthetic education, and labor education." "Set ideals from an early age and strengthen beliefs and confidence, and the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics will have a reliable successor"...

Education, the party's major plan and the country's major plan.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Bogu

Today, plant new green, small saplings will grow into towering trees and continuous forests, and the land of the motherland is full of green and full of vitality. Today, we sow hope, and children will eventually become pillars of social development, and build a strong country and national rejuvenation will have the power to continue to strive for.

After the tree planting ended in 2021, the children gathered around and reluctantly. The General Secretary smiled and looked at his eyes full of longing and instructed cordially: "We will build a socialist power with Chinese characteristics by the middle of this century, thirty years old. You are ten years old now, and you will be forty years old. You will be the pillars of the country!" Applause was everywhere.

Planning: Zhang Xiaosong

Editor: Zhu Jichai

Chief Editor: Yan Fujing, Zhao Xu

Visual: Bao Yuhan

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