Xinjiang realizes the "double reduction" of desertized sandy land

Overlooking the Cocoa Greening Project of Wensu County (shooting from July 10, 2019). Photo by Wang Tuo

Tianshan News (Reporter Cao Hua reported) June 17 this year is the 28th world to prevent desertification and drought on the world. The theme of our country is "together to prevent desertification and build a community of destiny." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xinjiang has relying on the "Three Norths" protective forests, returning farmland to forests and grass, and sandproof and sand control around the Tarim Basin. reduce".

In May this year, the first landscape, forest, lake and sand integrated protection and restoration project in Xinjiang was launched in the Aksu area. The total area of ​​the project was 3.603 million hectares and the total investment was 5.373 billion yuan. The new model of harmonious and appreciation with the ecological industry has further built an important ecological security barrier in the northern sofa in the northern my country.

The Aksu area is located on the northwestern edge of the Taklama -Ganan Desert. The ecosystem is extremely fragile and sensitive. In the 1980s, the sand and dust weather in the Aksu area was nearly 100 days each year. The nearest desert was only 6 kilometers away from the city. Facing the harsh reality, in 1986, the Aksu area started the greening project in the source of the wind and sand. In more than 30 years, it built a "green Great Wall" that integrates ecological forests and economic forests. The source of the country has become an ecological barrier and an oasis orchard.

The legendary story of the yellow sand in the Aksu area is a model and microcosm of the governance of desertification and desertification and sandy land in Xinjiang. As the province with the most concentrated and largest area of ​​sandy land in my country, Xinjiang has paid hard efforts to curb the expansion of land desertification. With the support of the country, Xinjiang has successively implemented the construction of the "Three Norths" protection forest system, returning farmland to forests, and grass, and grass and grass. Salima Basin surrounding the sand prevention and sand, retirement of grass, soil and water conservation, sand prevention sand demonstration zone, and sandy land banning protection areas and other national key ecological projects and projects. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with the continuous increase in ecological environmental protection, more and more miracles of yellow sandy oasis have been staged in Xinjiang.

"Xinjiang's technical level of anti -sand prevention and sand control is also advanced in the world, which is due to the continuous practice of sand prevention and sand control. Land desertification and sandy management have been difficult in the world. In recent years, Xinjiang has passed international exchanges, and many breeding of breeding has been selected for breeding. The desert plants have gone abroad to help Africa, Central Asia and other countries carry out desertification control cooperation, and provide scientific and technological support for the construction of the “Belt and Road”. "Said Liu Kang, deputy director and researcher of the Institute of Forestry and Sand in the Xinjiang Academy of Forestry Sciences.

In terms of prevention and control measures, Xinjiang has strengthened the protection of desert planting. At present, a total of 43 banned protected areas in the region have an area of ​​8.09 million mu. At the same time, we will comprehensively implement grass -setting livestock, implement 150 million acres of grasslands, and implement 540.9 billion acres of grass and livestock balance, and guide farmers and herdsmen to transform livestock breeding through subsidies. Actively innovate a comprehensive governance model, demonstrate the promotion of new technologies such as floods, gimmicks (shuttle) inoculation cordon, non -irrigation afforestation, and engineering sand control. Organize the implementation of the sandy management project. During the "Thirteenth Five -Year Plan" period, 9 new national desert parks were built with a total of 27, with a total planned area of ​​2.879 million mu. 416.787 million acres, 4.222 million mu of farmland to forests, 1.015 million acres of cultivated farmland, and 4.8095 million mu of grass and grass, and effectively slowed down the expansion of sandy land.

According to statistics from the forestry and Grassland Bureau of the Autonomous Region, as of now, the cumulative investment of key sand and sand control projects in Xinjiang has reached 13.26 billion yuan. Monitoring data shows that the area of ​​Xinjiang desertification and sandy land has achieved "double reduction", which has strongly supported Xinjiang's economy and society Sustainable and healthy development.

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