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A planting tradition serves a carbon ambition

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Grab your shovel – it's time to dig and save China.

On Wednesday, Xi Jinping took all the Party bigwigs to plant trees in southern Beijing.

But he didn’t just shovel dirt, he also talked up his carbon-cutting program.

ICYDK: Tree planting is a political tradition.

Since 1979, China’s to...