By 2030, Inner Mongolia will have completed 97 million acres of desert control area, advancing the battle against the "Three Norths" project
Inner Mongolia is the main battlefield for desertification control in my country and an important area for the construction of the "Three Norths" protective forest system project. At a series of press conferences on the theme of "Promoting High-quality Development" held by the State Council Information Office today, Wang Lixia, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and chairperson of the autonomous region, said that Inner Mongolia completed desertification prevention and control area of 9.5 million acres last year, 1.5 times the plan at the beginning of the year. It is expected that by 2030, 97 million acres of desertification prevention and control area will be completed.
Wang Lixia introduced that there were "two and a half" in the three landmark battles of the national "Three Norths" project - the Battle of Jiziwan on the Yellow River, the Battle of Annihilation in the Horqin and Hunshandake Sands, and the Battle of the Hexi Corridor-Taklimakan Desert edge. In Inner Mongolia. "The task is huge, but we acted upon the order. In the future, we will not only cover the sand with green 'protective clothing', but also build a super 'carbon bank' and a pure 'oxygen bar'."
At present, 80% of the Mu Us Desert, which is larger than Hainan Island, has been transformed into a green treasure land, pushing my country's green territory 200 kilometers southward; 40% of the Kubuqi Desert, which covers an area of 21.15 million acres, is covered in "green clothing" , designated as a "Global Desert Ecological Economic Demonstration Zone" by the United Nations Environment Program. In addition, Dengkou County in Bayannur City has built a 154-kilometer-long and 100-meter-wide forest belt on the eastern edge of the Ulan Buh Desert. This forest belt has pushed back the eastern edge of the desert by 20 kilometers and reduced the amount of sand transported to the Yellow River every year. More than 90%.
This year, Inner Mongolia has combined desertification prevention and control with new energy development, implemented an integrated project of desertification prevention and control, wind power and photovoltaics, and planned supporting new energy installed capacity of more than 100 million kilowatts. For example, Ordos City has planned and built a "Photovoltaic Great Wall" with a length of 400 kilometers and an average width of 5 kilometers on the northern edge of the Kubuqi Desert and the south bank of the Yellow River. It hopes that through the advancement of desertification prevention and control and photovoltaic integration projects, the yellow sand will become "Green field" becomes "blue ocean".
Inner Mongolia has also mobilized the enthusiasm of enterprises, farmers, herdsmen and social organizations in all aspects, setting off a wave of desertification prevention and control throughout the region. For example, the Alxa League, which is spread over the three major deserts of Badain Jaran, Tengger, and Ulan Buh, has built a production base for saloxylon ammodendron, cistanche deserticola, Cynomorium cynomorium and other sand-growing traditional Chinese medicinal materials to help local farmers and herdsmen get rich, and has been favored by the masses. welcome.
Wang Lixia said that Inner Mongolia's goal is to not only complete the major ecological project of the "Three North" project, but also turn it into a development project and a project to enrich the people, which not only controls desertification, generates green electricity, and increases the number of people income to achieve the "triple win" of ecology, production and life.
