Mirror View·Echo|Building a Strong Green Wall in Northern Xinjiang
June 5th is World Environment Day. The theme event of World Environment Day 2024 focuses on "Land Restoration, Desertification and Drought Resilience".
Desertification is a major global ecological problem affecting human survival and development. Our country is one of the countries with the most severe desertification in the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about desertification prevention and control, and has repeatedly given important instructions on desertification prevention and control and the promotion of the construction of key ecological projects in the "Three Norths".
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which spans the northwest, north and northeast regions of my country, is one of the main battlefields in the country's fight against desertification. In recent years, Inner Mongolia has kept in mind the instructions, adhered to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, strengthened comprehensive prevention and control of desertification, effectively fought against the "Three Norths" project, and worked hard to build a green barrier for thousands of miles in the northern border of the motherland.
On September 15, 2023, the river and lake wetland water environment protection and restoration technology research team collected lake water samples in Wuliangsuhai, Inner Mongolia. Wuliangsuhai, located at the top of the "Several Bends" of the Yellow River, is the largest lake wetland in the Yellow River Basin and a natural ecological barrier that controls the source of sandstorms in Beijing and Tianjin. In recent years, the local area has continuously strengthened the comprehensive management of Wuliangsuhai, and the ecological environment has continued to improve.
Workers manage trees at the state-owned Xinhua Forest Farm in Linhe District, Bayannur, Inner Mongolia. Over the past decades, the forest farm has continued to increase forest coverage by combining ecological projects such as the "Three North" protective forests, controlling sandstorm sources in Beijing and Tianjin, and transforming low-quality and inefficient forests.
Pinus sylvestris forest photographed in Duolun County, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia on September 10, 2023. Duolun County is located on the southern edge of the Hunshandake Sandy Land. The local area controls desertified land through measures such as artificial afforestation and engineering sand fixation.
On April 27, 2024, desert control workers used straw to tie up squares at the site of the sand fixation project along S315 of the Tengger Desert in Alxa Left Banner, Inner Mongolia.
On March 28, 2024, desertification control workers laid grass squares in the sand in Agula Town, Horqin Zuoyihou Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia.
Pinus sylvestris planted in the wing bag sand barrier photographed in Dalin Town, Horqin District, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia on March 27, 2024.
In the White Line Desertification Prevention and Control Project Area of Bayanhujiao Gachaqi, Wengniute Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, the sand-crossing highway cuts the sandy land and the sand dunes are gradually fixed.
The Ulan Buh Desert Photovoltaic Base photographed in Dengkou County, Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia on May 16, 2024. The Ulan Buh Desert is building an ecological photovoltaic base, using on-board power generation and under-board planting, in an effort to turn the sand sea into a "green sea."
On May 15, 2024, the Nugusitai project area of the "Double Million Mu" comprehensive management project was photographed in the Horqin Sandy Land in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia.
