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Over 800,000 Trees Planted in Kunming
年内完成80万株植树
昆明偿还绿色“欠债” Reimbursing the "Green Debt"
Kunming is making an effort to increase their green space with positive results....
A good example of tree and site selection in Kunming.
...but there is a problem in Kunming on how to plant trees.
It has led to complaints by Kunming residents.
Tang Zi Xiang
There is a tree every meter and tree crowns are already touching the electrical wires. At the moment, they have already started planting a second line of trees. In addition to this, they have planted trees under the bridge.
The tree crowns are not only under the bridge, but also the trees along the side of the road already touch the windows of the buildings. Also the branches are leaning on the electrical wires.
Mr. Shen from a store said “Planting two lines of trees are crowded together on the narrow and limited road, but also the branches are in the electrical wires. This is very dangerous.
Trees planted directly under a bridge.
Baz Yu Road
Three lines of trees on the side of the road are making it difficult for people to deal with it. Mrs. Zao carrying two bags said, “three lines of trees on this sidewalk is too much. There is no space for us to walk through here, especially when we carry something in our hands. It’s very inconvenient.”
The trees were planted right next to the yellow blind walkway.
Wu Jing Road
Phoenix trees were planted here years ago, yet the city has chosen to plant even more trees. On Huan Cheng Xi Road, Jin Bi Road, Wu Jing Road, Jin Hua Pu Road, etc… , there are already large phoenix trees growing on these streets. The branches already almost cover the entire width of the street. Now they have begun to plant additional new trees under the branches of the mature trees. These new trees receive minimal light and will have to fight to survive. The new small trees are banyan trees which normally grow quite large. In the future, this will present a problem.
New trees planted under mature trees.
Mr. Zhang who lives on Wu Jing Road doesn’t understand it. He said “planting trees is a great way to improve the environment. The trees that were planted years ago look beautiful. Why are they planting more trees under them? They don’t need these small trees at all. Also, these trees will have a hard time getting sunlight and rain. They will probably die.”
Bai Ta Road
An exercise area has now become a grove of trees.
Nearby Hui Du, on Bai Ta Road, originally there was a space for people to set up a net and play badminton. Presently, there are two lines of holes in this space to plant new trees. Now they can’t play badminton there anymore.
People passing by stated that the city should take the time to make a plan for reforestation. This would be much better than just digging holes throughout the city and planting trees in them at random.
Huan Xi Road
Small trees and big trees compete for nourishment and sunlight and many of the small trees have died.
Another example of new trees planted under mature trees.
Outside the Kunming airport, there is an area where they have planted trees. They dug up the previous pine trees and put them on the side of the road for planned replanting. They have already dried up completely and will certainly die.
Mrs. Zhang often takes her child to play around here. She said “these two trees already died a couple days ago. “ Prior to this, she had seen people planting trees a couple of times, but all the trees died shortly after. “They have dug up the dead trees, and they will try to plant again.”
More than ten trees died on Huan Cheng Xi Road and Xin Wen Road, and Xi Ba Road. On both sides of these roads are big trees. They attempted to plant small trees under the big trees, but they have already died because of the hot weather.
Holes were dug in the sidewalk all over the city. Oftentimes left open and unattended for weeks at a time.
Xin Wen Road
There are so many holes in the sidewalk, people have to jump over them.
Everywhere you can see huge holes in the sidewalk on Chuan Jin Road and Huan Cheng Bei Road. Beside the holes are large piles of dirt. These holes were dug days ago, but the trees were still not planted. This creates a dangerous hazard for walking pedestrians.
There is about 20 holes on Chuan Jin Road waiting for trees to be planted. The whole sidewalk is very messy. There is dirt and stones everywhere because of the digging. To avoid the piles of dirt, pedestrians have to walk in the bicycle lane. Also people riding motorcycles and bicycles often have to quickly stop before falling into the holes.
On Beijing Road, they dug holes and then filled them with dirt shortly after. This is another example of poor planning.
On Xin Wen Road, after digging the holes, they left piles of dirt on the sidewalk so pedestrians are forced to jump over them.
Trees were often planted right next to buildings.
Fu Chun Road
Trees were planted in the flower beds, but the newly planted trees’ crowns already touch the buildings.
On Fu Chun Road, the reporter saw that they had planted trees in the flower beds. The trees were extremely crowded. In 10 meters of flower bed, they planted 20 trees. The holes they dug are too small and the soil is too soft. If a strong wind blows, the trees will definitely fall over. It is very dangerous.
Another example of trees planted too close to a building.
This Gingko biloba is a normally a great street tree, but as you can see, the root ball is too small relative to the size of the tree, and the support system is also not set up properly.
Wei Yuan Jie
On Wei Yuan Jie, the reporter saw there is a big hole just next to a newspaper store, waiting for a tree to be planted. A person making a phone call joked, “they haven’t planted the tree yet, but once they do, we will have to climb the tree to make phone calls.”
Xi Yuan Road
The blind walk-way has been compromised by tree planting.
On Renmin West Road and Jin Hua Pu Road, there is a new tree planted right in the middle of the blind walkway. The same thing has occurred on Xi Ba Road and Beijing Road. On Xi Yuan Road, Mrs. Zhu passing by pointed at a tree and said “that tree was planted in the middle of the blind walkway. If a blind person walks here, he will run into the tree! It is very dangerous.”
They are still currently planting additional trees despite complaints by Kunming residents.
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