Volunteers gathered to participate in a tree-planting event in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to celebrate China's Arbor Day, which falls on March 12. The initiative to establish China's Arbor Day was made in 1915 by a few Chinese forestry scientists, including Ling Daoyang. The date was then changed to March 12 in 1929 to commemorate Sun Yat-sen, a politician who did much to promote forestry. Every year since then, a series of related activities have been held across the country to plant trees and protect the environment. 

Over 300 volunteers climbed Jinyun Mountain to cultivate young plants in the Beibei district of Chongqing Municipality where wildfires engulfed the area in 2022, with the hope of bringing new vitality to the charred forest.

Fast-spreading wildfires swept through the forests and mountains of the Beibei district of Chongqing in August 2022 after a heat wave that lasted for weeks. Thousands of firefighters, emergency responders and residents worked around the clock to put out the blaze. No casualties were reported.

The local government is taking a scientific approach to restore the ecological environment of the damaged forest area using both natural and artificial methods. The local forestry administration has completed the first phase of the post-disaster restoration work. For the next step, they plan to create a number of barrier zones, forest fire prevention checkpoints, observation towers and cameras to develop the area's fire prevention infrastructures. The main fire barrier, which played an important role in containing forest fires last year, will become a hiking trail for tourists.