A senior engineer from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry was called to Dengfeng, Henan province, to rescue a 1,400-year-old white poplar tree.

The endangered ancient tree in the city's Yongtai Temple has suffered from serious insect damage in recent years. The local cultural relics bureau asked Cong Sheng, an expert in rescuing dying trees, for help.

Cong and his team removed the dead wood, gave the 35-m-tall tree special "drip injection" treatment and sealed a 7-m tree hole.

Cong, renowned for successfully treating the 4,500-year-old cypress trees in Songyang Academy in Zhengzhou, Henan province, in 2004, is certain the poplar tree will spring back to life.

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