The Green Long March was hosted by the State Forestry Administration? and implemented by task forces at Beijing Forestry University and FutureGenerations/CHINA. Additional support came from the China Communist Youth League, the Beijing Youth Federation, the State Environmental Protection Agency, the Ministry of Water Resources, the State Education Administration, and 50 Universities and 100 Youth Conservation Groups.

Beijing Forestry University:

Located in Haidian District, the home to many key universities in China, Beijing Forestry University (BFU) is a top institution of higher education in the field of forestry and ecological environment under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. With the great effort made by several generations since its establishment in 1952, BFU has evolved from a forestry college to a multi-disciplinary national key university with forestry, biology and forestry engineering as its leading disciplines. By 2006, it had an enrollment of 12,900 undergraduate students and 2,700 graduate students.

Equipped with superb instruction and research facilities, the BFU can provide a desirable environment for students. So far there are 50 undergraduate subjects offered by 12 schools, 73 graduate disciplines and 35 doctoral disciplines. The BFU has 495 full and associate professors, of whom 127 are supervisors of Ph.D. programs and 5 are academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). Its advantage specialties such as landscape architecture, biological science, forestry silviculture, soil and water conservation are some of China's finest. From science, to engineering, to management, to economics, to liberal arts, to law, to philosophy, the university offers an incredible array of courses for its students to choose from. Besides regular undergraduate, graduate and doctoral education, its personnel training system also includes continuing education and international student education.

The university enrolls international pupils from language students to post doctors covering all specialties. By 2006 there have been about 1,200 international students that have studyied in this university from such countries as Korea, Japan, the United States, Britain, Thailand, Indonesia, Austria, Italy, Finland, France, Turkey, Vietnam, Mongolia, etc.