"Looking Back at Today's Images: The Weeping Prairie"

Fifteen years ago, at the end of January 2000, 60,000 square kilometers of grassland herders in the 60,700 square kilometers of the Xilingrad League in Inner Mongolia, which was hit by a blizzard disaster, were anxious, and the cold and lack of food had caused the death of livestock in the hard-hit areas, the worst snow disaster in the region since 1977. Refusal to complete statistics show that in the disaster areas where the snow disaster was the most severe and the snow thickness reached more than 20 centimeters, 28 Sumu (townships) in Ximeng were spread, and the number of livestock deaths had reached 60,000 (only).

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In the hardest-hit village of Dalai sumu, Bart's wife took her son's hand, looked at the dead sheep sadly, and said, "Look at the sheep and sheep, how tragic the death was." ”

The snow disaster caused her family's sheep to die at a rate of five or six a day, and she told reporters that due to the lack of grass and feed, at this rate, her family's more than 200 sheep could not survive until the spring breeze blew the green grassland.

Her home is more than 480 kilometers away, and last year the pasture suffered from drought, and they spent 1500 yuan to transport their own sheep here, renting someone else's pasture for 4000 yuan a year. It was hoped that more lambs would be laid this year to make up for the cost of migration, but even if the "house leaks in the overnight rain", not only will the number of sheep be drastically reduced, but life will not be guaranteed.

The snow broke the sheep's hay, and Bart quickly unloaded his luggage and went to a place hundreds of kilometers away to pull the hay, and could not return after two or three days. Bart's wife tearfully told reporters: "We need hay, we want to go home." ”

Xu Zhifeng photography recorded in Beijing on February 2, 2015