Sansha, China's southernmost city in the province of Hainan, is planning to plant half a million trees within 2016 as part of the latest "greening of the islands" campaign.

The going green initiative of Sansha's geography in the South China Sea is reportedly posing some challenges including how to transport the tree seedlings, the inadequate amount of supply of fresh water and the extreme weather condition noted like typhoons, according to state media Xinhua.

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Despite the hindrances, tree planting is an essential move as forests could serve a strong windbreak and could also prevent erosion of the shoreline. This could help improve the ecology of the city and benefit the  residents.

Officials are considering raising coconut and casuarina trees because of their reportedly high survival rate amid hot, salty, humid, and highly radiated conditions, China Daily reported.

Last year, the environment friend project has planted nearly 300,000 trees across islands and reefs, of which 90 percent reportedly survived, thus giving beauty to the once barren lands.

Sansha also organized an "Internet plus tree" adoption program. At an annual cost of 300 yuan ($46), participants can own a tree on Sansha's Zhaoshu Island.

China is clearly boosting its effort on planting trees. China's Green Great Wall, formally called the Three North-Star Shelter Forest Program, has been recognized as the world's biggest ecologically engineered project by experts.

The initiative has already planted at least a 100,000 square miles forests. As soon as this is realized by 2050, China will see an extensive belt of trees expanding from Xinjiang, northwestern part of China, to a number of northern regions to the northwestern part, or the Heilongjiang province, according to a recent study.

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