In 20 10, during the construction of Nanjing Metro Line 3, the municipal government planned to demolish more than 600 trees along the line 1 1 station except the municipal government station and the pontoon station, of which more than 200 were phoenix trees planted in the 1960s, and the rest were Cinnamomum camphora, Ailanthus altissima, Ligustrum lucidum and Luan trees. 2011At the beginning of March, large-scale construction of Nanjing Metro Line 3 began. 49 buttonwood trees on Changjiang Road and Taiping North Road near Daxing Palace Station were cut down and transplanted to a nursery in Qilin Town, Jiangning District.
On March 14, people tied green ribbons on the buttonwood of Zhongshan East Road. This is the "Green Ribbon Action" initiated by netizens spontaneously, and a green ribbon was tied on the buttonwood tree to protest against being cut down. On March 15, China Kuomintang "legislator" Qiu Yi said in Weibo that "if the Nanjing Municipal Government does not stop cutting down trees, he will propose to protect trees in the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang", and the incident finally ushered in a turning point. The next day, Qiu Yi put forward a proposal at the regular meeting of the Kuomintang, hoping to coordinate the incident of cutting down the phoenix tree in Nanjing through ARATS and SEF. The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said at the press conference on June 5438+07 that it believed that the Nanjing Municipal Government would properly handle this matter.
On the afternoon of March 19, thousands of Nanjing citizens gathered in front of Nanjing Library to protest against the government's felling and moving trees. There was no major conflict between the protesters and the police who came to the scene in advance.
On March 20th, Lu Bing, vice mayor of Nanjing, said that the tree transplanting work of Metro Line 3 had been completely stopped. The government will openly solicit public opinions to further optimize the subway construction plan, and the incident has come to an end.
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Historical background:
1928, in order to welcome Sun Yat-sen's Feng 'an ceremony, 20,000 French phoenix trees were planted along Zhongshan South Road in Nanjing, which is commonly known as "French phoenix tree" by Nanjing people. 1953, the Nanjing Municipal People's Government set off a "tree planting craze", when there were about 65,438+10,000 buttonwood trees in Nanjing. However, since1990s, due to road widening and other projects, the buttonwood trees in Nanjing were either cut down or removed, of which only about 3,000 were left of the 20,000 buttonwood trees planted in the Republic of China.
Previously, the construction of Nanjing Metro Line 2 also encountered the problem of transplanting trees. Initially, the project planned to transplant 65,438+0,065 trees. Later, the design and construction scheme of specific stations were revised to avoid big trees, and finally 1 90 trees were transplanted, which increased the project investment by 50 million yuan. At that time, the Municipal Bureau of Landscape Architecture promised that "the trees removed by 190 will not die", but after the visit, it was found that the survival rate of transplanted trees was only 18%.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Nanjing buttonwood incident