[Explanation] Recently, the reporter walked into the 10,000-mu sand control demonstration base in Gaizikumu Township, Shaya County, Xinjiang.
In the Shusuo forest, the workers are busy digging the grafted Dayun, and putting them into bags in turn.
[Explanation] Since its establishment in 2011, Shaya County has tried to plant more than a dozen species of sand plants, and finally selected Haloxylon ammodendron with a high survival rate and strong adaptability. At present, more than 10,000 acres have been planted and 7,000 acres have been grafted. Dayun.
This year, based on the excavation of 2,000 acres of land, it is expected to generate nearly 5 million yuan in income.
[Explanation] The big desert in the past has become the cornucopia of today, thanks to Shaya County's insistence on taking the ecological priority and green development path.
The desert area of Shaya County accounts for 80% of the county's total area, which severely restricts economic and social development.
Shaya County is determined to improve the ecology, taking desert control and sand prevention and control as a breakthrough to improve the ecological environment, innovating the ecological construction promotion model, in-depth implementation of sand prevention and sand control projects, and putting "green clothes" on the deserts of the past.
[Concurrent] Gao Yuxin, a villager from Kumbostan Village, Gezkum Township, Shaya County
In the past few years, as long as there is a strong wind on our side, the entire village will be smoky and the sky is full of wind and sand. Our environment is also very good now, with green trees.
[Explanation] Through innovative mechanisms, Shaya County encourages and supports social capital to participate in desertification prevention and control work, explores a sand control model that benefits enterprises and ecology, and solves the sustainability of ecological governance.
In severe desert areas, through the introduction of sand control enterprises for greening and afforestation, 22,000 acres of Haloxylon ammodendron have been planted.
[Concurrent] Song Yong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of Shaya County Forestry and Grassland Bureau
Up to now, the area of sand prevention and control in our county has reached 52,000 mu, and the area of grafting Dayun is more than 10,000 mu, achieving a double harvest of sand fixation and greening.
[Explanation] In recent years, Shaya County has successively initiated and implemented a batch of boosters such as the "Three-Year 300,000 Mu Afforestation Project", "Sewage Treatment Plant's South Side Wind and Sand Source Site Treatment Project", and "Million Mu Sand Prevention and Control Project". Land greening operations and forest and grass ecological restoration projects have, as of now, the county’s total forest resources area has reached 4,840,200 acres, the number of sand and dust weather has been significantly reduced, and the number of days of precipitation has increased significantly, greatly improving the local planting environment and promoting the increase in production and income of local villagers.
Zuo Dandan Liu Yuzhu Reported by Xinjiang Shaya
Editor in charge: [Zhang Aolin]