In 40 years, China planted about 7.88 million hectares of windbreak trees.

back in the beginning of the century pictures of sandstorms obscuring beijing or north china often hit the headlines but in recent years the international discourse around china's environmental attempts has shifted dramatically as the chinese government woke up to become one of the major pioneers of global greenery here are some figures china's decertified areas see a decrease of 2424 kilometers every year roughly three times the size of new york its sand cover land goes down 1980 square kilometers each year in north china's inner mongolia autonomous region forest coverage reached 22.1 percent in 2019 and vegetation coverage of grasslands rose to 44 percent four percentage points higher than in 2012. how did china get there and what changed those swaths of varying into an oasis first planting trees a lot of them china's affordation campaign can be dated back to the 1970s when the three north shelter band forest program was first implemented numerous local villages and landscaping companies joined the project to hold back the sandstorm that are threatening people's survival six years ago marijuan became a worker at a local forestation company he never imagined he'd see the sandy landscape transformed into a blanket of trees this 86 year old granny settled in a desert near her hometown tonglao after retiring from a local bank after 20 years of laboring on the degraded dry land she successfully helped turn the sand dune into an oasis of 200.000 [Music] during this process many people voluntarily devoted themselves to a career of tree planting for the sake of bettering the lives of themselves and the next generations for my ling ping however growing trees is a must because the sandstorms from the old duck sandyland were burying his crops besides the massive tree planting project the regional government in the mongolia has also designated over 133 thousand hectares of grasslands as protection areas over the past five years to sustain local grasslands grazing prohibitions are practiced in the fragile land and conservation funding is allocated to families relying on husbandry aur huamu is a rent owner in a ceiling guru grassland he owns about 80 cattle herding them in the 240 hectare rotational grassland from june to october and raises them in the newly built cloud shed he calls the bedroom and kitchen for cattle although he no longer raises ship which may easily lead to overgrazing his annual income has climbed steadily due to his high quality cattle and stable beef prices [Music] xi jinping called for a solid green great wall while inspecting inner mongolia he said building an ecological security barrier in northern china was a strategic task now protection of the country's environment has been embedded in china's overall development strategy after years of development many people who have made contributions to the environment have benefited from mother nature in return which showcased lucy waters and large mountains are in valuable assets china has proven to the world they are protecting the environment and pursuing economic benefits are dialectical but not contradictory when managed with wisdom they can form a virtuous cycle for many chinese green initiatives are not only a key to a barrier of society but also a commitment to the whole world

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Published: Mon Sep 28 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/qaveboy]

Keep on keeping on

[u/shalb]

In contrast, the US dropped out of the Paris Agreement, cut the size of National Parks down to mine that sweet sweet natural resources and lets the west coast burn.

[u/Juche_Jay]

O7

[u/money_over_people]

Fiction: 8 million Uyghurs in camps

Nonfiction: 8 million hectares of new trees

[u/wakeup2019]

That’s 788,000 square kilometers!

That’s more than twice the area of Germany!!

[u/BeefyMongol]

If every country in the world does this there will be no climate issues. We are so numerous and advanced that we can control the weather if we work together. Ofc not every countries have efforts to spare or are willing.