Through long-term field observations and experiments, researchers have discovered the shell-like organisms known as biological soil crusts that appear in grass grid sand barriers can firmly "seal up" shifting desert sands. "Biological soil crusts play a crucial role in sand surface stabilization, land desertification restoration and desert ecosystem biodiversity maintenance, earning them the title of 'desert ecosystem engineers'," said Zhao …
Workers install solar panels in the Kubuqi Desert in Ordos city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, last year. DING GENHOU/FOR CHINA DAILY HOHHOT — In Chaideng village in Ordos city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, 3.46 million blue solar panels stretch across the desert, covering 30 square kilometers, transforming the endless sands into a shimmering "photovoltaic sea". The solar power base is …
Staff members work at a factory of Chint Group in Shanghai in May. SHANGHAI — In Chint Group's Shanghai transformer factory, robots are engaged in stacking silicon steel sheets as thin as 0.23 millimeter layer upon layer according to design specifications, with a single robot capable of stacking over 1,680 layers in 24 hours, equivalent to the workload of six …