[Explanation] Autumn is the harvest season. An Fengxia, a Splendid Begonia grower, is very satisfied with this year's harvest. Recently, she has been busy picking fruits with workers. These sweet and juicy Splendid Begonias will be packaged and sent to China. Part of it will also be sold overseas.

What made her sigh was that the fruit forest around her was still full of yellow sand twenty years ago.

　　[Explanation] This fruit forest located in Xibohua Gacha, Horqin Left Middle Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is located in the hinterland of Horqin Sandy Land, the second largest sandy land in China.

125 kilometers to the south of Xibehua Gacha is Nugustai Gacha, Horqin Left Rear Banner. The 580 acres of land planted by the local villager Chunmei’s family has been severely deserted, and a family of 6 members has no stable income.

In 2014, the Horqin Sandy Land Comprehensive Management Project was launched. Chunmei transferred the heavily desertified land to the state-owned forest farm, and the compensation was used to raise cattle; her husband also joined the ranks of ecological forest rangers, and the pine trees planted on the sand became their home. Green Bank"; Through various ecological poverty alleviation measures, Chunmei's family now has an annual income of more than 120,000 yuan.

　　[Concurrent period] Chunmei, a villager from Nugustai Gacha, Horqin Left Rear Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

　　One year (income includes) selling cows, and then my husband (as a forest ranger) and (I) still work. The conditions are much better than before, and the money spent (in this respect) is also more expensive than before.

　　[Explanation] The people trapped in the barren sandy land got rid of the dilemma of the past. The yellow sand was covered by vegetation... The photographer Hua Weiguang, who has been paying attention to the local ecological construction for a long time, is one of the witnesses of all this.

In 8 years, he has not counted the number of shots in the sand.

Turning to Huaweiguang's photo album, from dead trees, sand dunes, sandstorms, to tree planting, afforestation, and sand-hunting difficulties, these precious images that cannot be replicated are the best testimony to the ecological management of the Horqin Sandy Land.

　　[Concurrent] Hua Weiguang, a photographer in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

　　It’s from yellow to green. This is what I feel most personally. It started as a piece of yellow sand, but now it has become very rare to see the bare sand. It's all green, with green as the background color. right now.

　　[Explanation] Official information shows that since the 1950s, China began to manage the Horqin Sandy Land. In recent years, the ecological management of the sandy land has continued to increase, and the greening of the sand has become the norm.

In Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region alone, 24.75 million mu of sandy land has been effectively controlled and more than 3,000 villages have been completely greened.

And behind these are the hard work of generations of forestry people.

　　[Explanation] Chao Ketu, 54 years old this year, is one of them. He has been working in forestry for 29 years. He talked about the ecological construction of Horqin Sandy Land as a treasure: seam afforestation, net weaving, ecological restoration... Do it yourself.

Now that the sandy land has turned green, Chaoketu can't be idle, and has devoted himself to researching the development of forestry industrialization and promoting the income of local farmers and herdsmen.

During the interview, he told reporters that he did not want to sit in the office and walk among the trees he had planted for so many years. It was the happiest thing.

　　[Concurrent] Chao Ketu, Director of the Forestry Station of Horqin Zuoyihou Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

　　I have made my hometown green. In the 29 years from (1991) to the present, I feel that we have worked hard, and we have achieved results, and now I feel particularly fulfilled.

　　Reporter Ma Zhiyuan, Chen Feng, reporting from Tongliao, Inner Mongolia

Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]