Entering September, the herders of the Bayinbuluke Grassland in Hejing County, Bazhou, Xinjiang, started their annual autumn transition. More than one million heads of livestock have been transferred from the Bayinbuluke summer pasture to the autumn pasture. The migration has become a unique landscape.
Pastures can be divided into four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter according to the season.
"Transition" means that the herders transfer the pasture for the livestock in an orderly manner according to the growth cycle of the pasture.
In early September each year, more than one million heads of livestock in the Bayinbulak grassland are transferred from the summer pasture to the autumn pasture.
More than 10,000 herders living in the Bayanbulak grassland have to drive their livestock to the plains before the snowfall. This is the great autumn migration they must carry out every year.
Bayinbuluk Grassland is the largest alpine meadow grassland in China, with an average elevation of 2500 meters, wetlands and swamps, river networks intertwined, and the climate is complex and changeable.
In order to ensure the safety of livestock after the transfer, the local government prepared grass and materials as early as possible to escort the herdsmen during the transfer.
This year, the autumn transition work in Bayinbuluke Town, Hejing County, Bazhou, Xinjiang began on September 9 and ended around September 23. It lasted about 15 days. The autumn transition was the Bayinbuluke Grassland four times a year. The shortest time in the field.
(Zhao Yamin, Yin Lin, Liu Yushan)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]