Shanxi to plant over 260,000 hectares of trees in 2019

TAIYUAN, April 20 (Xinhua) -- North China's Shanxi Province plans to plant 4 million mu (about 266,666 hectares) of trees this year, according to the provincial department of natural resources.

The province had completed about 1.36 million mu as of April 10.

Shanxi will focus on a series of works including creating protection forest in the Loess Plateau.

The province has planted more than 13.78 million mu of trees since 2016, with the forest coverage rate of about 20.5 percent by 2018.