May 15, 2020
As 93.24% of a significant desert in China’s northwest Shaanxi Province has turned green, it has completely vanished off the map. The Maowusu Desert, also known as Mu Us, used to be a treeless desert with no farmland, just endless yellow sand. Now, it’s a beautiful forest, thanks to local...
#Environment#aforestation#Baijie Town of Hengshan District#china#China’s northwest#Dang Shuangren#desert#desert turned green#Desert vanishes off map#Dingbian County#ecological compensation#forest#forestation#Green forest#greening#Hu Zhiqiang#Inner Mongolia Region#local people planting trees#Maowusu Desert#northwest China#pinus sylvestris#sandstorms#Scots pine#Shaanxi province#Shi Guangyin#the Forestry Bureau of Hengshan District#the Ordos City#the Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Bureau#the Shilisha Village#the Yulin City