China's Greening Of Vast Kubuqi Desert Is A Model For Land Restoration Projects Everywhere | TIME

In the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, China, where centuries of grazing had rid land of all vegetation, Elion Resources Group partnered with local people and the Beijing government to combat desertification and greened one third of the land.

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China's Greening Of Vast Kubuqi Desert Is A Model For Land Restoration Projects Everywhere | TIME

[TonyBeanify]

A positive title from Western media? Wow! That's a news!

[subzerosuperhero]

This is what I call greatness. It's a 30 year project, that requires a lot of patience but am willing to learn if you want to teach.

[Martian]

China spent 30 years to plant sustainable greenery for one-third of the Kubuqi Desert (18, 600 sq. km) in China's Inner Mongolia Province. This is an incredible achievement, because China's experience and technology can be used to reverse desertification in other countries. This will improve the lives and standards of living for impoverished people trying to earn an income by working the land.

[michaeldeng]

Finally, I find some positive reports about China...Cheers!!!

[KiwiImpactSaint]

When I was in Western Yunnan, the Chinese border near Myanmar. The Christian pastor there told me his works beside preaching in church, managing his farms would be planting trees and also encourage others to do the same.
Over his thirty-something years of cleric role, he has planted over 100 thousand trees, that is more than 10 trees per day. These trees will eventually prevent landslides, which are frequent in the areas due to heavy rainfall and earthquakes.

[rollingthunder]

Very nice, Chinese people should be proud of this

[ChannelofRK]

Chinese Government is doing so many things right...The world needs to learn from them.

[pauladams]

Lovely to see some much needed good news about the environment. Well done China.

[感恩-kt]

when you change ur title " China destroy the green land to desert", it will be millions views in days.
anyway good job my motherland China. =D

[wym]

Everytime someone bad mouths and misunderstands China, China should just transfer into quite achievements and breakthroughs :) I want to see China being covered by greenery! Well done.

[lammiles]

If someone feel unconfortable about this video, you need China Uncensored.

[normandong]

Desert reclamation and revitilization programs such as these in China have a substantial benefit on the land, its people and their livelihood. It still takes work and patience to succeed but stopping the worsening sand dunes, dust and soil erosion are worth the effort. Large parts of Northern China experience dust and sand storms, so planting hardy trees and grasses make good sense to fight these environmental problems. Kudos and praise for any group that encourages this kind of land reclamation.

[gatekeeper]

We need more projects like this.

problem: this desert is expanding due to our practices putting important production areas at risk.

Solution: Plant drought resistant plants to slow/reverse damage to reclaim and push back against our damage.

[rickysubutai]

When I look up for “China uncensored” and “Japan uncensored”, I get very different results.

[centralmarg]

What a simple and honest life. Love it.

[sumitpandey]

salute to efforts of china u r inspiration for future generations that happiness lies with nature instead of concrete jungles

[Phrancis]

It's as if they actually listen to scientists and make decisions based on facts and logic instead of rhetoric. Say what you will about Communism/socialism, but with the right ppl in charge they can make better policies than a dysfunctional democracy. Not to say one sys is inherently better than the other, but we should recognize the strengths and weakness of both.

[pinarellolimoncello]

This is so pleasing to see, well done to China. I have been saying for years the world needs a better vision; restoration, regeneration, so the people of the Earth shine like the stars above etc. It's not just moral its scientific and ecological, improves the hydrology cycle (water), gives life to bees and pollinators that improve crop yields, this is called infinite unified intelligence or congruent thinking. My friends son is learning Chinese at university, I will inform him of this good news.

[jameslee]

LoL I thought they would reverse the temporal order of the video and title it "China the forest destroyer"

[rtshchand]

Good job China, we in India doing same thing.