BEIJING -- A group of senior legislators attended a voluntary tree planting event in suburban Beijing on Monday.

The attendees, including vice-chairpersons of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Xiao Jie, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei and Shohrat Zakir as well as deputy secretaries-general of the NPC Standing Committee and members from relevant departments of the NPC Standing Committee, planted more than 300 saplings at a park in Beijing's Fengtai district.

Over the past years, the NPC Standing Committee has been organizing voluntary tree plantation events to promote the building of a beautiful China.