See the new green sand governing a botanical garden in a boring place

Tianshan.com reporter Hei Hongwei

On June 21, the reporter walked into the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Unlike other botanical gardens, although it was midsummer, this area of ​​more than 2,000 acres of parks could not see a lush scene, but the gardens turned jujube and shuttle in the garden. The desert plants such as Hongliu and Populus Populus were still dressed up in desert areas that were once boring places.

The Turpan Desert Botanical Garden is the only botanical garden in the world below the sea level. In the past 50 years of Jianyuan, there are more than 800 species of planting plants here, and there have been more than 700 desert plants that have been successfully domesticated and domesticated, accounting for about 60%of my country's desert seed plant area. There are more than 500 existing desert plants, of which the desert is rare and rare Nearly 150 kinds of endangered plant.

The outer scenery of the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily reporter Zhong Zhaofeng Photo

Fifty years ago, Turpan's wind and sand were harmful and caused serious harm to agriculture. Researchers from the Xinjiang Biological Soil Research Institute (now the Institute of Xinjiang Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) came here to manage the wind and sand, and built the earliest botanical garden in the Turpan Basin in Turpan Basin -the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden, making full use of Turpan " The natural conditions of the wind storage "and" Huozhou "lead to collecting desert -deserted plants and screening excellent wind -proof sand and fix species.

Pan Birong, Honorary Director of the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden, is the first generation of "Botanical Garden". He has witnessed the 50 -year change since the establishment of the Desert Botanical Garden.

"When I first arrived, the 90,000 acres of wind eroded the flowing sand was the wind and sand source area of ​​the sub -production and living area. It was almost a grass here." Pan Birong said.

It is very difficult to grow a little green in extremely bad weather in extremely harsh weather. It is very difficult to grow a little green. Researchers want to do everything to make these plants live.

"In a sense, the history of the construction and development of botanical gardens is the history of collecting and breeding of plant quotation and breeding." Pan Birong said.

In order to introduce desert plants and scientific researchers, it is located in desert areas in the north and south of Tianshan and Gansu, Ningxia and other places. They are targeted at local climate, soil, and wind segram. They quote sand -fixed plants, and more than 10 excellent wind -resistant sand -resistant drought -resistant plants such as sand, shuttle jujube, shuttle, red willow, and mouse melon are successfully selected.

The corner of the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden. Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily reporter Zhong Zhaofeng Photo

The plants returned every year will also work hard to breed. There are many winds in Turpan in spring, not only the seedlings cultivated in spring are blown, but many trees that have been planted for many years have also been blown to death.

"Where can we survive under such conditions, where can we live? What we do is to choose a plant under extreme conditions, and use it to be successfully used in windproof and sandy work." Pan Birong said.

After the attempts in the harsh environment, the species in the botanical garden gradually enriched. Now, this once -ignited place is spread all over various plants, and the sand is firmly grasped under the root system.

Born in 1970, Zhang Jiabing, Secretary and Director of the Party Branch and Director of the O'INECC Village, Gaofekler Township, Gaochang District, Turpan City, felt deeply touched by this.

"I was born in this village. The current Turpan Desert Botanical Garden is a desert area near the village. When I was young, the wind and sand were very large. The ecological environment is very bad, "Zhang Jiabing said.

The improvement of the ecological environment has gradually become a place where it is suitable for life, and the villagers in the surrounding are planted with grapes. The Turpan Desert Botanical Garden also planted Chinese herbal medicines in many villages in many rural shuttle and white -shuttle wind -fixed sandwood forests -desert cordon, which not only increased farmers' income, but also expanded the protection scope of desert rare plants.

"These are the results of continuous sand for decades." Zhang Jiabing said.

Sand -tuming jujube in the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden. Pomegranate/Xinjiang Daily reporter Zhong Zhaofeng Photo

"I have been to the Desert Botanical Garden 3 times. It is very happy to watch the scale of the desert botanical garden expanding. In such a harsh environment, there are so many species and preservation of desert plants, and they have made great contributions to the national desertification prevention and control. Researchers who work here very much. "At the 50th anniversary of the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden, Ren Hai, director of the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said with emotion.

Over the past 50 years, desert plants have stepped out of Turpan, taking root in the front line of wind and sand control, helping desertification prevention. The desert plant resources that have been successfully quoted and domesticated in the desert botanical garden are provided by the Xinjiang "Sanbei" protective forest project, sand prevention and sand control project, returning farmland to forest, and desert road protection forest projects and urban protection green space construction projects in arid areas. More than 50 tons of seeds and seeds have made outstanding contributions to the prevention and control of desertification and the development of the sand industry.

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