Fuzhou, March 3 -- A century-old camphor tree, once on the brink of death, was revived as a group of deputies to the municipal legislative body in Fuzhou, east China's Fujian, worked diligently to come to its rescue.

Throughout 2023, the fate of the tree was the most pressing concern of Zheng Shuhong, a deputy to the municipal people's congress of Fuzhou, the city's legislature.

The camphor tree, once a source of shade for generations of locals in Xujia Village of Fuzhou's Minhou County, was reduced to a bare trunk when workers, displaying a complete lack of awareness of its safety, attempted to relocate the tree to make way for a construction project in January 2023. This careless act left it stripped of all its leaves and branches.

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