China’s Fiercest Enemy: Not India Or US, But A Monster Desert Forcing A Second ‘Great Wall’ | World News
Beijing: When a person thinks of China’s rivals, they often call India, the United States or other powerful nations. The truth is much more surprising. China’s most frightening enemy is not a country. It is a wide, non -forgiving and constantly expanding desert.
The Taklamakan Desert in Sincan stretches like a sea of death, where even survival seems impossible. Beijing has fought these changing sands for decades. And now, in an extraordinary thrust, China has raised what it calls the second longest wall in the world, not the stone, but the green.
Thirteen years, a human -made miracle
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According to a report on News.cgtn.com, the locals in Makit County, the only district surrounded by desert in China, spent the last 13 years by planting more than 30,000 hectares of drought -resistant trees. This tireless effort has transformed dunes into agricultural areas, gardens and livelihoods.
The project is part of a major national campaign. Around Taklamakan, the largest human -made desert green belt of anywhere in the world, a long 3,046 -kilometer shelter, runs a long shelter. It prevents sand storms, opens roads, attracts tourists, and reshapes life on the edges of the desert.
The rise of the ‘green big wall’
Beijing calls it a green big wall. South China Morning Post reported that China has completed a sand control belt connecting three deserts in the inner Mongolia, which is an important step towards a wide ecological barrier vision throughout the North.
Xinhua added that the campaign was scaled. Forest belts now extend to 1,856 kilometers planted with millions of trees to keep the sand under control.
This green line is cut in Alxa League, a region where Badain Jaran, the third largest desert in China, as well as Tengger and Ulan Buh Deserts, is spreading about 95,000 square kilometers.
These three deserts alone make up one -third of Alxa League’s total land and more than 83 percent of the desert region of the inner Mongolia.
Dozens of years of struggle, a ruthless enemy
China’s ‘Three-North Shelter Program’, known as the local large green wall, has been going on since 1978. Its aim is to stop desertification in the north, northeast and northwest-threat areas of the country.
In the early years, 88 million trees were planted along the edges of the program Gobi Desert. This reduced suffocating dust storms swept into Beijing. In November last year, another green belt was completed by strengthening the efforts in Sincan throughout Taklamakan.
Still, the threat continues. Taklamakan is China’s largest desert and the second largest gear in the world. The expansion of Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping, keeps awake.
A global war against sands
China is not alone in this war. Africa started its own large green wall, and in 2007, an African union project started to combat desertification and climate change throughout Sahel.
The plan is to restore 100 million hectares of land by 2030. This wall extending from Senegal to Somalia is expected to run 8,000 kilometers on the continent. So far, 30 million hectares have returned to life.
A Different Wall than others
The deserts continue to be China’s most ruthless enemy. Unlike human competitors, they never rest. Through the forests grown by human hands, Beijing built a wall that did not divide people but protected them. A green wall that is fed by fear and arises from hope.
