In the past few days, all the staff of our city have been dispatched and participated in the initiative to prevent and control desertification, and the majority of cadres and masses have practiced the concept of green development with practical actions and made concerted efforts to add new green to our city.
In the early spring, the cool breeze is blowing, but in the sand sea of Ashhan Sumu Ulan Aodu Gacha in Wengniute Banner is a hot scene, more than 70 people from the local area are busy carrying straw, laying grass, pressing, and cultivating soil‧‧‧‧‧‧ under the busy figure, on the continuous sand dunes, a grass checkered sand barrier gradually spreads out from scratch, embedded in the sea of sand, and firmly locks the sand dunes. Although facing the wind and sun, in the eyes of the villagers, this job can not only add an income to their lives, but also contribute to the ecological construction of their hometown.
Gao Wa, a herdsman from Ashhan Sumu Ulan Aodu Gacha in Wengniute Banner: I can exercise and have another income to ensure our daily expenses, and now I and I have come here to do this work, and the income is sometimes 1780 yuan, sometimes more than 200 yuan.
Siqin, a herdsman from Ashhan Sumu Ulan Aodu Gacha in Wengniute Banner: I am happy to do this work, but I don't have any work at home, and I am not busy with farm work now. This sandbag doesn't grow anything in the spring, and if the sand is fixed like this, the grass will grow or something, and it will turn green in 3 or 5 years.
This year's 54-year-old Su Hebatel, secretary of the party branch of Ulan Aodu Gacha, beckoned more than a dozen villagers to come to the sand control construction site early every day, pressed the grass and beat obstacles, and ensured that the straw grid laying of more than 40 acres of sandy land was completed every day. Through the satellite map of his mobile phone, he and his fellow villagers were able to find out exactly which piece of sand needed to be treated this year.
Su and Batel, Secretary of the Party Branch of Ashhan Sumu Ulan Aodu Gacha of Wengniute Banner: This is our task this year 6021 acres.
Reporter: It's all shown on this, right?
Sue and Battle: Yes, this white place is where we should fix the sand. A quarter of the way has been completed, and three-quarters of it is expected to be completed by June.
"Controlling sand by road" has always been the long-term mode of sand control in Wengniute Banner, and now a total of 16 roads through sand have been built, forming a "five horizontal and eight vertical" road grid bureau. The gridded sand-piercing highway divides the sand area into several sand control units. The construction of the road through the sand has also improved the production and living conditions of farmers and herdsmen along the route.
Su and Batel, Secretary of the Party Branch of Ashhan Sumu Ulan Aodu Gacha of Wengniute Banner: There are many benefits, our villagers use roads to control sand, and after the road is opened, our villagers can travel well, and then this piece of sand is fixed, the ecology is also green, and cash crops have grown
This year, Wengniute Banner plans to invest 5.3369 million yuan to implement 6,021 acres of sandy land management in Ashhan Sumu through the method of "work-for-relief", which can increase the employment of the masses by about 120 people, increase the per capita income by more than 9,000 yuan, and increase the collective economic income by 107,000 yuan at the same time. At present, 800 acres of sandy land have been treated, and 133,600 grass checkered sand barriers have been laid.
Liu Huanyu, Director of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Wengniute Banner: This cash-for-work project is to be implemented by the local Gacha Village Party branch and cooperatives to organize local herdsmen. In the future, while we are managing the area as a whole, we should increase the form of cash-for-work to control sand and increase the participation of farmers, and at the same time, the ecology will be brought under control, and the income of farmers will increase, so that the "three productions" of ecology, production, and life will be unified.
Unremitting efforts to build homes and a new picture of desertification prevention and control are also unfolding in the Alukorqin Banner. In the Huagen Talagacha Manjin Manghazhi Sand Area of Aqi Zhagastai Town, there was a crowd of people, stacks of caragana and straw bales were neatly arranged, and the vast number of cadres and masses in Alu Korqin Banner waved shovels to cultivate soil, afforestation and land preparation. This year, while mobilizing the masses to participate in desertification control, the Alukorqin Banner also encouraged the majority of party members and cadres of organs to join in the desertification control project and continue the "relay race" of desertification control and sowing greenery.
Ma Xinquan, a staff member of the government office of Alu Korqin Banner: We divided the unit into five groups, each group has arranged work tasks, and the unit has left the necessary staff to ensure the normal operation of the unit, and all the cadres here are about 50 people, and they set off by car in Qili at 8 o'clock every morning, and drive for about an hour and a half.
Bai Xuefei, staff member of the Organization Department of the Alukorqin Banner Committee: I feel that this event is of great significance, and it also responds to the overall goal and policy of our country's ecological governance, and the sand prevention and control project is also to better improve the ecological environment and bring better convenience to the lives of herders and other people.
Manjin Mangha is located in the southeast of the Alukorqin Banner windbreak and sand fixation area, which is one of the areas with the widest distribution of Horqin Sandy Land and the most serious desertification degree in the whole banner, with an area of 2,601,100 mu, accounting for more than 13% of the total land area of the Banner. In 2024, Aqi plans to invest 57.628 million yuan to carry out comprehensive management of 33,700 mu of desertified land in the Mangjin Mangha sand control area by combining shrub and grass vegetation restoration and engineering sand fixation. The project sand fixation is carried out in the form of professional joint venture company + Sumu township + agricultural assistance company + farmers and herdsmen + cadres and workers.
Yan Hongjun, director of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Alukorqin Banner: Since the start of construction on March 19, since the start of construction, we have at least 50 cadres of government agencies to participate in the construction of sand barriers every day, in addition to this, we also have cadres from townships and towns, ordinary people from townships and towns, and employees of enterprises, and we have at least 150 people fighting in this area every day, with an area of about 300 acres per day, and after two or three years of governance, it will become an oasis.
From the yellow sand rolling to the thick green, from the wind and sand raging to the green into the sand retreat. Nowadays, with the full progress of desertification prevention and control work, with the active participation of cadres and the masses, the city has achieved remarkable results in desertification prevention and control, and the city has invested more than 5.5 billion yuan, so that the city's desertified land area has been reduced from 39,956,700 mu in the first national monitoring in 1994 to 26,619,000 mu, and the coverage of forest and grass vegetation has reached more than 65%.
All-media reporter: Zhang Qiang