China News Service, Lanzhou, March 26 (Ma Aibin) In late March, a team of "green sowing" teams had been "fighting" in the Gobi Desert in the east of Hongshagang Town, Minqin County, Wuwei Province, Gansu Province. Under the guidance of three or five people, they work in groups of three or five, work together, shovel soil, cofferdam, water, and do it in full swing.

　　"It's not easy to plant trees in the desert," said Zhang Xukun, a sand control worker who has lived in the desert hinterland and has been working in the afforestation area for more than 10 days. The afforestation operation section in the eastern part of Hongshagang Town is adjacent to the national-level natural city of Minqinlian in the south. In the protected area, the sand is high in alkali, and the wind and sand hit the face, and the skin quickly cracked.

But watching the saplings I planted survive, I can make a contribution to turning the desert into an oasis, which is very "sense of achievement".

The picture shows sand control workers planting greenery.

Photo by Ma Aibin

　　Minqin County is located in the northeast of the Hexi Corridor, the lower reaches of the Shiyang River Basin, and is surrounded by Badain Jaran and Tengger Desert on three sides from east to west.

In 2022, Minqin County, relying on the Hexi Corridor Ecological Protection and Restoration Project in Gansu Province, will implement the three-north six-phase project to carry out artificial afforestation, and promote the protection and greening of deserts.

　　Jiang Youheng, director of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Minqin County, said that Minqin County adopts scientific ecological afforestation technical measures to determine tree species and models for different site conditions, and build an ecological protection forest with a total area of ​​15,000 mu in the northern part of the oasis, establishing a stable desert edge. The plant community of Badain Jaran is restrained from "invading eastward and moving southward" in Badain Jaran Desert.

　　In recent years, Minqin County has seized the favorable opportunity of the country to accelerate the construction of ecological civilization, the construction of "One Belt and One Road", the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and has successively organized and implemented the three-north shelterbelt, large-scale Desertification control and other projects, large-scale promotion of land greening actions, construction of solid ecological security, efficient ecological economy and prosperous ecological culture three systems, to contribute "Minqin Wisdom" to desertification control.

　　"Minqin is a key county for the construction of the Three-North Project, with deserts, Gobi, denuded mountains and saline-alkali flats accounting for 91% of the county's area. After decades of construction and development, the Three-North Project has produced huge ecological, social and economic impacts. Benefit.” Huang Chaojun, the station director of the forestry work area in the Lake District of Minqin County, said that the implementation of the Three North Project has not reduced Minqin’s tasks and increased investment. The tree species is managed in a band-shaped mixed mode, and measures should be taken according to local conditions. If the tree is suitable for arbor, the tree should be irrigated.

　　It is reported that the Hexi Corridor Ecological Protection and Restoration Project Minqin County Three-North Sixth Phase Afforestation Project has completed land preparation and digging of 13,000 acres, bottom water irrigation of 9,500 acres, and planting of seedlings of 5,000 acres.

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