The work is in the contemporary,
The benefits are in the thousands of autumns.
Desert Wonders
One thing,
China has been doing it silently for 40 years,
But recently it was suddenly discovered:
"The Mu Usu Desert is about to be destroyed!"
"China has actually turned the desert into an oasis!"
"Tell me, is this a human miracle?"
Mausu Desert,
Also known as the Sandy Land of Ordos,
Located at the junction of Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia provinces,
It is one of the four major sandy areas in China.
The total area is 42,200 square kilometers.
The great desert where no grass grows,
After 40 years of tenacious confrontation by mankind,
30% of the desert is covered with plants,
80% of deserts are successfully treated.
50 million acres of land and water are no longer lost,
The annual sediment transport volume of the Yellow River,
As a result, it has been reduced by a total of 400 million tons!
Desert becomes oasis,
It can be said that it is a change of life against the sky,
This remarkable feat,
Compose with faith that man will triumph over heaven!
But the Mausu Desert,
It is not a natural desert.
Even in the 5th century (Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties),
It's still a fertile prairie of water and grass,
Inhabited by a nomadic Hun people.
On the one hand, the herders' uncontrolled reclamation,
On the one hand is the impact of inter-ethnic wars.
Traces of human activity destroy nature.
Finally during the Tang Dynasty,
Mu Wusu became a small sandy field.
And then it's like contagious psoriasis,
Little by little, the sand is expanding,
The turf is devoured relentlessly little by little.
At that time, people only knew how to escape,
Go to the next prairie to continue herding sheep,
Wouldn't that be nice?
Yulin, Shaanxi,
He also escaped three times.
Half a century ago,
As soon as the people here are born,
And they will endure the sand.
Sandstorms that cover the sky,
In turn, it hits houses and crowds,
Eyes and mouths are full of sand, normal!
But bathing has long been a luxury,
Even drinking water should be saved.
Once out,
You're going to use a shovel,
Smash the yellow sand that blocks the gate.
Rickety hut,
If you are not careful, you will be buried alive by a sandstorm.
The residence of Yin Yuzhen, the hero of sand control
Such a sandstorm,
It will also spread to Beijing, Shanghai,
Tianjin, Nanjing and even Japan...
The sword of desertification,
It was already pointed to the throat of every Chinese.
Arable land engulfed,
The plants are dead,
Water is lost.
Do we still escape at this time?
We escaped,
Will our children and grandchildren still escape?
Or make up your mind to gamble your life,
Going to a victorious battle with the desert?
ecosystems formed over hundreds of millions of years,
Destroyed by centuries of modern civilization,
Want to restore it in a few decades,
It's easier said than done.
But the simple northwestern peasants,
First of all, I can't stand it:
"It is better to cure sand of exhaustion,
Nor can it be called desert bullying to death! ”
Niu Yuqin,
At that time, she was still a little girl with no power to tie the chicken,
But with donkeys, with shoulders, with hands digging,
It is hard to plant a tree against the wild sand.
Led the villagers to plant 27 million trees!
Turning 7,300 hectares of yellow sand into an oasis,
Forced the wind and sand back 10 kilometers!
Yin Yuzhen,
Exchange the most valuable sheep in the family for 600 saplings,
Dig up the dung and work without money as long as the saplings,
Destroy your family and cure the sand devil!
The seed is blown down, blown down and planted,
Back seedlings, zarin, pruning,
Planting trees gambled the lives of the whole family.
In 32 years, 70,000 acres of sand land were planted by her as green space!
Shi Guangyin,
Exchange 84 sheep for 3,000 acres of yellow sand for greenery.
After all the setbacks, do not be discouraged, stick to 30 years,
Treated 300,000 acres of barren sand,
Planted 40 million trees,
Turn the desert into fertile land!
There are thousands of such names.
Wuyun Siqing, Wang Guoxiang, Bian Zhaofang...
Millennium Mu usu Desert,
40 years into an oasis.
It is the millions of Chinese people,
With both hands,
One pit after another fixing sand,
Shovel after shovel to plant trees,
Take half a lifetime and life,
An ecological miracle created.
In 1959,
The country finally made up its mind,
Vow to govern the sand to the end.
In 1979,
The "Three North Shelterbelt Project" was launched.
Science and technology are coming,
Only then did the peasants understand,
It is useless to plant trees alone, you have to fix the sand first.
And you have to divert water to Lhasa,
Otherwise the saplings will not survive.
Netizen @ Anai photographed in the Maowusu Desert in 2010
Decades of sand control,
It's decades of loneliness.
In the vast sandy land of desertion,
Boring, monotonous, repetitive work,
The heroes of sand control carry it with persistence.
I even stumbled upon a footprint on the sand,
To be buckled with a washbasin,
Looking at it for several days,
Be accompanied by someone.
Paying in return,
Persistence pays off in victory.
Once upon a time, only low shrubs survived,
Now, the root system of the tree,
You can also be deeply rooted in this wasteland.
Little by little the yellow sand is covered with green,
It's a little greener every year.
Until now,
The trees are lush all over the city,
Who remembers that this place was once full of yellow sand.
High-rise buildings rise from the ground,
Who remembers that this place was once deserted.
@Xinhua News Agency in 2018
Flying birds and fat fish are not uncommon,
Who remembers that there was no grass here.
Now the Mausu Desert,
With the scientific ratio of sandy farmland,
With herds of cattle and sheep,
There are even highways.
This water and mountains,
Where like the desert,
Instead, it is like a paradise, stuffed with Jiangnan.
This time
The industrious Chinese nation,
Really inspired the world.
Director-General of the United Nations Organization for Combating Desertification
Gave a very high evaluation:
Maowusu Desert Governance Practice,
Something was done to make the world pay tribute to China.
the greening of the Mu Usu Desert,
Told us,
Mankind relies on his own hands,
Generation after generation of persistence,
Really can be punished for nature,
Make a little bit of compensation.
Can really put the damaged environment,
Save back a little,
Even if it's just a little bit,
It's also exciting enough!
If each generation,
are only asking for natural resources,
Hand over governance to the next generation,
In the end, humanity will be unsustainable.
And we have witnessed,
With industrious hands, scientific theories,
Finally, the ability to turn the tide and return to the sky with all its strength.
Such a grand event, witnessed once in a lifetime,
Shocking enough.
@Yulin Forestry Bureau
We really can,
Be proud without burden:
China
Did something unprecedented,
The merit is in the contemporary era, and the benefit is in the thousand autumns!
The merits of our predecessors, we must remember;
For the well-being of future generations, we will create.
As long as there is attention, there will be hope,
As long as you don't give up, there will be miracles