How China is Reforesting the Gobi Desert into Forest - The Great Green Wall

How China is Turning it's Desert into a Forest Oasis
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In today's video, we're going to introduce How China is Turning it's Desert into a Forest Oasis

The China Great Green Wall Project has the Chinese government was concerned about one thing: the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert spans about 500,000 km of northern China and southern Mongolia. The expanding dryness of northern China poses a severe danger to the country and its people. The Gobi Desert is the world's fastest-spreading desert, transforming over 2250 miles of grassland per year. This expansion devastates agricultural land and generates sandstorms that wreak havoc on populations along the desert's edge.

Chinese desertification has been continuous since the 1950s when the Young People's Republic started raising farms and wildlands to create communities and infrastructure to accommodate a growing population. This human activity exposed most of the land to wind erosion and desert deposits. Until the 1970s, the government concentrated completely on desertification and took action. In 1978, the Chinese government initiated the three North Shelterbelt Projects, often known as the Great Green Wall, a state-wide ecological engineering project. Another unofficial title was Luise Chang Cheng or The Great Green Wall of China. It is considered to have been written by Deng Xiaoping. This operation aims to stop the Gobi Desert's spread by planting millions of trees along its 2800-mile border with Northern China.

Reforestation is one of the world's most important environmental projects. Grass and indigenous trees are planted first, followed by drought-resistant species. Then come to the hardest trees, such as poplars. Planting teams are formed, and seeds are dispersed throughout the plains. Chinese elites, including ministers, join specialists and amateurs in planting trees. Although billions of trees have been planted, the project intends to plant 100 billion trees by 2050. The Chinese can now grow trees online. Donations are lawfully collected and used for planting. According to the Chinese government, around 66 billion trees have been planted in northern China during the previous several decades.

Hectares of windbreak trees have been planted, 336,200 square kilometres of desertification has been reversed, and over 10 million hectares of grasslands have been protected regenerated in the previous 40 years. while parts of the Gobi Desert are blooming with lush vegetation, rich soil, and more rainfall. Another achievement was establishing a luxuriant forest area in northern China's Mu Us desert. The Great Green Wall is not China's sole action. In the early 2000s, many laws were enacted.

While the Great Green Wall Project has shown potential, it is not flawless. Some opponents of the initiative are critical, but the majority are anti-monoculture. Most woodlands contain just one tree species, rendering them vulnerable to epidemics. Numerous trees have been devastated by plant diseases. The World Bank advised China to prioritise tree species quality above number. A forest debate occurred a few years ago. Large Chinese cities, particularly Beijing, suffer from pollution, which increases year after year despite government efforts. Smog is pushed out of cities by the wind. However, this has become infrequent.

The New Forest plantings may have hindered air movement, resulting in stagnant air in cities that cannot be cleaned. Zhang Yongli, the People's Republic of China's State Forestry Administration deputy head of Trees, can only hinder air circulation near the land's surface. Pollution reduction. Mass tree planting. Farmers in Southwestern China were spotted removing native vegetation to earn government funding for spreading non-native plants as part of a government effort. Water. Large areas of China, especially in tree-planting zones, are becoming drier. The project's thirsty nonnative trees have depleted groundwater resources in arid portions of northern China.

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[theprimest]

Thanks for watching Everyone! Hope you enjoyed this NEW episode. Let me know your thoughts on this project.

[dyrectory_com]

China is putting efforts into being Green... thank you! 👏🏻 from Canada. 🌳 🌳 🌳

[deidradahl]

I appreciate the fact they are trying to reforest the desert, they have made a few mistakes, and learned from them, so things will only get better, and better, and better, so happy to see this . Thank you

[abraamgirgis]

This is insane. Imagine if the Whole World did this too as a joint effort 👌

[lucinda]

Chinese people are very hardworking people. I admire them how inteligent and resilient they are .Thanks for fighting the desert 🙏

[blckbll]

We must admit they do a lot of hardwork there, appreciate it.

[CN_SFY_General]

One desert in northwest China disappeared a few years ago because of reforestation.

[tomjones]

China innovative and initiatives are incredible. Reforestation of the Gobi desert? Wow!

[thakurpandit]

Worth learning and is naturally inspirational.

[gregcorker]

Really fascinating. I had heard about some of their efforts, but no details. Reversing desertification is important work.

[Christin]

this is what every country should do, especially the US there is so much room there to plant lots and lots of trees. Brazil is cutting down the Amazon forrest and every country wants them to stop but who are we to tell them what to do after we all cut down all of the great forrests.

[ronnyshaji]

Very very happy to see this....so lovely 😍😍😍.
Our Mother Nature will be so happy 😁😁😁

[ShawnRoggow]

Just simple tools like swales can go a long way. We need to protect and reinforce our soil. For use by us, and for use by generations to come.

[stephenmeitai]

Our Indian Government need to take up this step to turn Rajasthan desert into Forest so that we can prevent from Extremely hot temperatures

[rajyogini]

Proud of you China ~ Mother Nature will Bless you

[jaik]

Great to see this ; much needed for our Earth across countries ....

[KJSvitko]

A variety of vegetation needs to be part of any tree planting project. A variety of trees, bushes and flowers are all necessary to support wild life and plant diversity. There needs to be forests, there also needs to be some open space for grasslands and some wildflower areas that support populations of insects, bees, butterflies, birds and other wild life

[seanlee]

It's smart that they turn it into farms which is key key for economic sustainability

[janetihaka]

There is no doubt that Chinese are absolutely brilliant this is stunning. I think they are amazing.♥️♥️♥️

[mikeaustin]

There's a lot of criticisms here, most of them justified, but at least the Chinese and African nations are doing *something*. And, they're learning from their mistakes. How many Americans understand that our current disastrous string of forest fire seasons is overwhelmingly due to our own mono-culture tree planting, use of genetically-modified trees ("super trees", ) build-up of slash due to clear-cutting and no follow-up prescribed burning, and other shoddy silvicultural practices advanced in the name of Profit Now?