Reforestation, Xinjiang fighting back the desert and replace it with forest

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Reforestation, Xinjiang fighting back the desert and replace it with forest

This series of satellite remote sensing images (from L to R) shows the vegetated areas in 1986,1996, 2006, 2012 and 2022, respectively, in Kekeya, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua)

Compared with 2014, the area of desertified land in Xinjiang has decreased by 24,300 hectares. This is the first time the region has realized the overall reduction of desertified land, according to a press conference on the national desertification prevention and control plan on December 30, 2022.

This combo photo shows a bulldozer leveling the ground in Kekeya in 1986 (above, file photo), and an aerial view of Kekeya (below, photo taken by Xinhua photographer Li Xiang on Sept. 1, 2023) of Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)

This combo photo shows volunteers and forest rangers planting trees in Kekeya in 2006 (above, file photo), and a view of forests in Kekeya (below, photo taken by Xinhua photographer Li Xiang on Aug. 30, 2023) of Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)

This aerial photo taken on Aug. 31, 2023 shows a view of urban area in Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)

 

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Witnessed by Satellites: Magical green handshake appears on desert​

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The desert town Hotan, ranked as the most polluted city on the planet earth due to daily sandstorms, are fighting the mighty Taklamakan Desert and has siginificantly pushed back the desert in the last decade.

Old photo o Hotan from a decade ago, when the Taklamakan Desert almost completely engulfed Hotan.

Since then multiple anti desert encroachment measures haven been taken to fight back the desert. With the help of huge desert management investment and availability of high tech solutions, Now the desert is fast receding every passing year.

 

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Hotan, fighting off the Taklamakan

 

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Hotan, fighting off the Taklamakan

 

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Hotan, fighting off the Taklamakan

 

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Hotan fights off The Taklamakan

 

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Hotan desert farming

 

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Hotan desert farmers

 

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Hotan desert farmers

 

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Hotan desert farmers

 

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Researchers Cultivate Fast-growing Rice in Xinjiang Desert​

The fast-growing rice planted inside greenhouses in desert for the first time in Hotan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was reaped on Friday, marking the success of the project.

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