Eight -step sand continued to struggle and vowed to turn the desert oasis

Gulang County is one of the key monitoring counties of desertification in the country. Among them, the eight -step Salin farm is located in the southern edge of Tengger Desert and is the largest wind sand mouth in Gulang County. In 1981, the six local old men pressed the handprint on the contractual letter of the contract desert, vowed to use white hair to change the oasis. After more than 40 years, the descendants of the "six old men" took the father of the parents to lead the masses and guard the railway here. , National Highway, Farmland and Immigration Area.

Entering the eight -step Shalin farm in Gulang County, the lemon strip, red willow, and lemongrass snuggle on both sides of the ring forest road. The desolate scene of the past. Right now, it is the critical period of drought resistance and preventing diseases and insect pests. The eight -steps of Shazhi people with the same tools as usual are carried out in the forest patrol work. Looking at the new green in front of him, the second -generation sand controller and the deputy chief of the Eight -step Shalin Farm in Gulang County were full of emotions.

"Before there was no governance, the dunes were exposed here, yellow wind and black waves, and the spring was windy, and the sand was filled everywhere. Through the governance of our generations, the trees also grew up, the grass grew up, the environment became more and more and more and more. Well, the wind and sand are much smaller. In the later period, we will strive to maintain our oasis well, manage and protect, and make the ecological environment better and better. " Said Yinshan, deputy chief of the Shatin Farm.

In order to march deeper to the desert, the "Sand Treatment of Sandy Division" in the eight steps of the Shalin Farm actively contracted across regions and controlled the blackgangsha, large trough sand and desert sand on the north side of the eight steps. Thousands of acres, 114,000 acres of sand education, and the coverage of forest grass planting more than 60%, realizing the historic transformation from "Sand Jinren" to "green into the sand and retreat". The vegetation coverage in the eight -step Shalin farm pipe area has also increased from less than 3%in the past to more than 70%now, forming a wind -proof sand and green corridor of 10 kilometers long and 8 kilometers wide, so that 100,000 acres of farmland surrounding are obtained. Protection ensures unimpeded unimplify the west gas -east loss, west oil delivery, dry (Tang) Wu (Wei) railway and provincial road 308 line.

He Zhongqiang, deputy head of the second -generation sand control person, the deputy head of the eight steps of Gulang County, said: "After many years of governance, the wind sand line has dropped more than 20 kilometers away from us. The local ecological environment is getting better and better. Next, we will continue to increase the work of preventing sand prevention, sand, sand, and tree planting, so that the beautiful ecology will better benefit our local people. "

It is understood that in the spring of this year, the eight steps of Galang County completed 20,000 acres of ant forest forests in the northern sandy areas, and more than 4 million flowers, shuttle, and lemon strips were planted to complete more than 5,000 acres of afforestation, and more than 50 seedlings were planted. Wanzhu. As of now, a total of 257,000 mu of sand treatment has been completed.

"Our eight -step Salin farm will continue to carry forward the" difficulties in the face of difficulties, and dare to turn the spirit of Wuwei in the new era of deserting oasis ", focusing on sand prevention and sand and ecological construction, and in the key wind and sand in the Huanghua Beach Immigration Area, continue to increase forests. Cao planting is covered with the comprehensive demonstration zone of the county's sand prevention and sand control and accelerate the process of promoting the process of preventing the sand control of the ancient waves. "Guo Wangang, the head of the second -generation sand control person, Guo Wangang, the head of the eight steps of Gulang County.

In recent years, the Gulang County Party Committee and the County Government have firmly established the concept of "green water and green mountains are the golden mountains and silver mountains". Construction policy, to promote ecological governance, environmental protection, pollution prevention, and green development, the quality of the county's ecological environment has continued to improve, and the concept of green development has become more popular.

Author: Li Wanbin

Source: Gulang County Rong Media Center

Editor in charge: Mao Mengjie

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