China has achieved a significant milestone in its battle against desertification by completing a 3,046 km sand-blocking green belt around the Taklimakan Desert. This achievement, finalised on Thursday morning, is part of the world’s largest afforestation initiative aimed at combating desertification across northwest, north, and northeast China. China finished encircling the country's largest desert, the #TaklimakanDesert, with a sand-blocking green …
Mulberries, a drought-resistant crop that can be used as fodder for livestock, are cultivated under and between the project's solar panels. The village committee contracted an afforestation project from the coal mine last year. Zeng made 8,500 yuan a month from March to December last year by working as a bulldozer driver at the project, the 39-year-old said. He has …
SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Editor's note: Beijing has carried out an extensive afforestation campaign to mitigate the effects of air pollution and improve the environment especially over the past decade, in order to expedite the construction of an ecological civilization and boost high-quality development, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. Over the past decade, Beijing, in its two rounds of …
A forest park in northern Shanxi province North China's Shanxi province invested 1.18 billion yuan in the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, completing afforestation work across 2,099.6 square kilometers, according to an announcement from the Shanxi Forestry and Grassland Bureau on Jan 31. Shanxi has established a shelterbelt system covering the northern sandstorm area, the …
