{"id":17606,"date":"2025-04-15T04:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17606"},"modified":"2025-04-15T04:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:26:59","slug":"sand-control-afforestation-efforts-in-chinas-largest-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17606","title":{"rendered":"Sand control, afforestation efforts in China’s largest desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 8, 2025 shows people planting coix at a sand industry experimental base in Yutian County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.(Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and the second-largest drifting desert in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to decades-long sand prevention and control efforts, the Taklimakan Desert was completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt on Nov. 28, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025, Xinjiang aims to afforest a land area of about 796,000 hectares, including 562,666 hectares for frontline control in the Taklimakan Desert. These afforestations form a part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, the world’s largest afforestation program, which tackles desertification in northwest, north and northeast China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Xinjiang will further widen the sand-blocking green belt and enhance desert-locking efforts to achieve sustainable sand control while improving local livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People arrange drip irrigation pipes at a sand-control experimental base in Yutian County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 8, 2025.(Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 7, 2025 shows oleaster saplings in Hotan County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.(Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 12, 2025 shows a grassland in Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Volunteer Wang Chengbang checks seedlings at a nursery in Korla, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 11, 2025. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 13, 2025 shows a photovoltaic power project in Xayar County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 9, 2025 shows staff members planting seedlings at a sand-control base in Qiemo County, the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 8, 2025 shows checkerboard sand barriers in Minfeng County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A staff member sorts cistanche at a cistanche planting base in Qiemo County, the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on April 9, 2025.(Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fu Guoxi checks the trees at a green belt built by his father Fu Zhizhou in Hejing County, the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 11, 2025. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 13, 2025 shows a photovoltaic power project in Xayar County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An aerial drone photo taken on April 11, 2025 shows a forest park in Hejing County, the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua\/Ding Lei)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250414\/7814f13c678f420b886b0ef78a81795b\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and the second-largest drifting desert in the world. Thanks to decades-long sand prevention and control efforts, the Taklimakan Desert was completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1764,29,16222,6836,132,16220,16221,16223,60],"class_list":["post-17606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-agriculture","tag-china","tag-cultivatable-lang","tag-desert","tag-economy","tag-sand-control","tag-transformation-of-desert","tag-afforestation-efforts-in-chinas-largest-desert","tag-geopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17608,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17606\/revisions\/17608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}