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Thursday, April 10, 2014
20140411 ChinaDaily_Gansu village tries to make the desert bloom
Villagers
in
Linze
county
,
Zhangye
city
in
Northwest
China
'
s
Gansu
province
,
use
nylon
mesh
on
Thursday
to
press
desert
sand
into
a
terrace
before
planting
it
with
drought
resistant
plants
.
The
farming
method
has
been
proven
effective
and
the
sand
plants
,
such
as
haloxylon
ammodendron
and
cistanche
salsa
,
have
brought
economic
benefits
to
the
area
.
The
county
has
turned
25,333
hectares
of
desert
into
terraces
using
this
method
,
of
which
14,666
hectares
have
been
planted
. [
Photo
/
Xinhua
]
Villagers
plant
haloxylon
ammodendron
on
Thursday
in
a
desert
area
separated
into
terraces
by
nylon
mesh
in
Linze
county
of
Northwest
China
'
s
Gansu
province
. [
Photo
/
Xinhua
]
Villagers
plant
haloxylon
ammodendron
,
a
sand-growing
plant
,
in
Linze
county
of
Northwest
China
'
s
Gansu
province
on
Thursday
.
The
county
is
on
the
southern
margin
of
the
Badain
Jaran
Desert
and
two-thirds
of
its
territory
is
inside
the
Gobi
desert
.[
Photo
/
Xinhua
]
A
villager
uses
nylon
mesh
to
fix
the
sands
into
blocks
. [
Photo
/
Xinhua
]
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