Recently, Meghetti County, Kashgar, Xinjiang.
Maigaiti County is located in the southwestern part of Xinjiang, on the southwestern edge of the Taklimakan Desert. It is surrounded by sand on three sides. The desert area accounts for 90% of the county's total area. The arid continental climate is extremely obvious.
Before 2010, the ecological environment was very fragile, and sand and dust disasters occurred frequently, which severely restricted the sustainable and healthy development of the county economy.
In the fall of 2012, Maigaiti County began to implement a windbreak and sand-fixing ecological forest construction project along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert.
The overall planning area of the project is 1 million mu, spanning 50 kilometers from north to south, and 20 kilometers from east to west, with a total area of 667 square kilometers.
In the past ten years, the local area has implemented a total of 410,000 mu of wind-proof and sand-fixing afforestation, and planted 220 million ecological trees such as Xinjiang poplar, Aronia vulgaris, Populus euphratica, Elaeagnus, seabuckthorn, red willow, Haloxylon ammodendron, and economic trees such as apples and prunes.
As the project continues to advance, the county's ecological environment has been significantly improved.
The hazards of wind and sand have been effectively controlled, precipitation has increased year by year, and the total amount of forest has been increased.
In addition, the project drove local people to participate in ecological forest management and protection and cash crop planting, providing jobs for more than 2,000 people in need, and relying on the implementation of industrial sand control to help and consolidate the results of poverty alleviation.
(Sui Zhiyuan)
Editor in charge: [Yue Chuan]