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China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle
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this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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Wait.... 78 Billion trees. As in with a 'b' billion? In all seriousness, how?
In Estonia we plant about 20-40 millions of trees every year.
RMK ( State Forest Management Center) alone plants about 20-25 million trees every year.
And we are nation with 1,3 million people. So for China that number over the years isn’t big at all.
I always laugh when in the western news there is some organization, what makes big words that they planted 2 million trees and if that is something of a big achivments what should be boasted around the news.
I should check out Estonia