Tomb-sweeping Day is just around the corner, and the Nantou Forest Management Office of the Forestry Bureau led a team to the Renlun Rongmin Pagoda in Xinyi Township for the spring festival to commemorate the contribution of the forestry martyrs in building bridges and roads.

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[Reporter Liu Binquan/Report from Nantou] The Ching Ming Festival is approaching. The Nantou Forest Management Office of the Forestry Bureau is located in the Renlun Rongmin Pagoda in Xinyi Township. Thanks to forestry pioneers for building bridges and roads, protecting mountains and forests, and holding sacrificial ceremonies on Ching Ming Festival and Hungry Ghost Festival every year to commemorate their contributions to forestry development.

The Nantou Forest Management Office stated that in 1956, the Forest Management Office successively received more than 500 veterans who were employed as counselors. Unfortunately, he died at work during his work. The Renlun Rongmin Pagoda worships the employees of Wangxiang and Renlun Workstation in the Luanda Forest District at that time. In 1961, the Renlun Rongmin Pagoda was built to commemorate the deceased veterans. There is an inscription recording the history of forestry development. It is now in Nantou Qin Siyuan, secretary of the Forest Management Office, and Chen Jingru, deputy director of the Veterans Service Office of Nantou County, led a team of more than 50 people to worship.

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Li Zhengxian, director of the Nantou Forestry Management Office, said that forestry work often requires trekking through mountains and rivers, eating and sleeping in the open. Without these pioneers who built bridges and roads, future forestry work would be full of dangers. He thanked the forestry martyrs for their dedication and hoped that people will climb mountains and hike. We should pay attention to our own safety, and we should also be grateful and remember the contributions of our predecessors.

Tomb-sweeping Day is approaching. Qin Siyuan (third from left), secretary of the Nantou Forest Management Office of the Forestry Bureau, led a team to the Spring Festival at the Renlun Rongmin Pagoda in Xinyi Township.

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