International Online Inner Mongolia News (Yang Yadong): On July 27, in the green valley of the sand peaks in the Kubuqi Desert, Hangjin Banner, Ordos, the Internet celebrity blogger Ai Ling from Thailand personally experienced 10 seconds after planting a salix. , said excitedly: “Amazing! All this is amazing, I didn’t expect to plant trees like this in the deserts of China.”
Thailand celebrity blogger Ai Ling took a photo with Yang Yadong in Shafeng Green Valley
now Kubuqi On the same day, Yang Yadong, who participated in the 2022 “Check-in China, the most beautiful landmark – Hello, Inner Mongolia!”, the international online communication activity of foreign Internet celebrity video bloggers and central media reporters walked into Kubu on the same day. its desert.
According to reports, the Kubuqi Desert is the seventh largest desert in China. It is located on the south bank of the Jizibend of the Yellow River, with a total area of 18,600 square kilometers. Garr Flag. More than 30 years ago, the hinterland of the Kubuqi Desert was barren and buried by wind erosion and sand. Over the past 30 years, the local government, desert control company Elion Group, social organizations, farmers and herdsmen have been holding together like pomegranate seeds, creating a world miracle of desert turning into an oasis. From “sand entering and people retreating” to “human-sand confrontation” and then “people entering and retreating into the sand”, the immortal “Kubuqi Spirit” of “helping each other, perseverance, scientific innovation, and green prosperity” has been created.
During the itinerary, foreign internet celebrities came to the Green Valley of the Sand Peaks in the Qixing Lake Scenic Spot in the Kubuqi Desert, and stood on the viewing platform, with the sand dunes extending for several kilometers and the “green” extending to the hinterland of the desert. With the achievements of ecological management, “trees fall from sand, cut peaks and fill valleys” is the tree planting experience and technical achievements accumulated by sand control people for 30 years. On the side of the viewing platform, the five characters “Green Chinese Dream” composed of 5,600 sand cypresses symbolize the green dream shared by 56 ethnic groups.
“People use drones to plant trees, aerial sowing and other technological means to actively restore the desert’s ecology. The management effect of the Kubuqi Desert is incredible. I think the most important reason for all this is that the Chinese government We have been working hard to improve the environment over the years,” said Semi, an internet celebrity blogger from Brazil.
Semi and her Pinus sylvestris photography by Yang Yadong
In the afternoon, foreign internet celebrities They also came to the Kubuqi desert moat forest area. They waved their shovels and each planted a sycamore pine.
“I named the tree I planted ‘Xiaozheng’. I’ve marked it on the map and will definitely come back to see it later. I think, when I come next time It must have grown up,” said Jung Ji-eun, an internet celebrity blogger from South Korea.
Foreign internet celebrity bloggers took a group photo in the Kubuqi desert moat forest for photography Yang Yadong
In addition, foreign Internet celebrities also visited the Kubuqi 2 million kilowatt photovoltaic desertification control project at the Mengxi base. With a total investment of nearly 12 billion yuan, the project utilizes the abundant land, solar and wind energy resources in the Kubuqi area and adopts a five-in-one cycle of “on-board power generation, off-board planting, inter-board breeding, sand control and soil improvement, and rural revitalization” The industrial development model will eventually form a comprehensive and circular development pattern integrating light, electricity, vegetables, grass, medicine, livestock and poultry.
Jason, a video blogger from the United Kingdom, thinks the photovoltaic sand control project is very remarkable, he said: “China’s photovoltaic sand control model is very successful, not only making full use of the sand, bringing clean energy, but also It provides employment opportunities for local residents and is worthy of reference for other countries and regions.”