Xinhua All -Media+｜ From "Sand Jinren" to "Green into the sand and retreat": More than half of our country can manage sandy land to be treated

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 17 (Reporter Hu Lu) June 17 is the 28th world to prevent desertification and drought day. The reporter learned from the State Forestry Bureau on the 17th that in the past ten years, my country has completed a total of 282 million mu of sand prevention and sand control missions, and 26.58 million mu of sandy land is banned. Retreat to the historic transformation of "green into the sand and retreat".

On June 16th, a scene of the peppercorns of Tongde Community, Zhennan Town, the Miao Autonomous County of Guizhou Province. The former stone desertification barren Mountain has become the Jinshan Yinshan (drone photo) that helps rural rejuvenation. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ou Dongyou Photo

According to the relevant person in charge of the State Forestry Bureau, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the area of ​​sandy land in the country has decreased by more than 649 million acres, and the ecological environment of the sandy area has been significantly improved. Through the implementation of a series of major projects, the green ecological barrier on the northern wind and sand line of my country has been gradually established. 30.14 million hectares. The key governance areas such as Mao Usu, Hun Shandak, Korqin, and Curbuqi Desert have changed from the former "boring land" to "stuffing oasis".

The person in charge said that in the past ten years, 41 national deserts (stone desert) parks and 128 national desert (stone desert) parks have been established in the past ten years, and the pilot work of desert ecological protection compensation has been carried out. According to monitoring, the sand and dust weather in the past five years has been significantly reduced, a decrease of 31%compared with the "Eleventh Five -Year Plan" period.

On the basis of strict protection and governance, my country uses the sufficient advantages of light, heat, species, and land in China, and moderate development of irrigated grass feed, Chinese medicinal materials, economic forest fruit, desert tourism, wind power photovoltaic, biomass energy and other industries to promote sand The district people get rich in the sand control and control the sand in the rich. According to statistics, about 48 million tons of freshly produced fresh fruits in the sandy area, accounting for about 1/4 of the country's total output, and forest fruit income in key areas accounts for more than 50%of farmers' net income.

The person in charge said that over the years, my country has actively fulfilled the obligations of the United Nations Convention on Desertification, conducted exchanges and cooperation with the “Belt and Road” countries, established the International Centers for Desertification Prevention and Control, and contributed Chinese experience and Chinese plan for global desertification governance.

He also said that in the next step, my country will coordinate the protection and restoration of the integrated protection and repair of landscapes, forests, lakes and sand, and strengthen the construction of sandy land sealing protection areas and national desert parks, and establish and improve the compensation system for desert ecological protection. By 2025, the protection area of ​​sandy land sealing will reach 30 million mu, and the area of ​​sandy land treatment is 100 million mu, and the comprehensive treatment area of ​​new stone desertification is 19.5 million mu.

[Editor in charge: Liu Xiaodong]

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