At the southeastern end of the Tengger Desert, the first fresh green appeared 6 years ago. The green planters used perseverance and hardship to expand the green to 30,000 mu. The leader of planting greenery is Ye Huiping from the foot of Wuyi Mountain in Fujian and on the edge of the strait.

People's Daily Overseas Edition

June 19, 2018

At the southeastern end of the Tengger Desert, the first fresh green appeared 6 years ago. The green planters used perseverance and hardship to expand the green to 30,000 mu. The leader of planting greenery is Ye Huiping from the foot of Wuyi Mountain in Fujian and on the edge of the strait.

Defeat after repeated defeats

Malan Lake is located in the southeast of Tengger Desert. Said it is a lake, there is actually no water, just a small piece of wetland with a large amount of salt and alkali, on which grows clumps of magnolia flowers. Regardless of whether the flowers are blooming or flowering, the lively or the lonely, Ye Huiping is firmly here. This woman from Fujian Province, with her team, spent 6 years of perseverance and hard work, so that the sand here is covered with green clothes.

In the spring of 2011, Mr. Yuan Shuhua, a Hong Kong entrepreneur, came to Alxa and registered Alxa Mengyuan Huilin Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd., contracted the desert in the area of ​​Malan Lake, and managed it by means of enterprise management. year. He gave Ye Huiping the responsibility of managing the desert of Malan Lake and appointed her as the company's general manager.

Ye Huiping did not forget that when he first came to the Tengger Desert, he was intoxicated by the desert scenery and fell in love with it. However, when she truly integrated into the desert and personally lit the "solitary smoke", she experienced hardships.

Ye Huiping and her employees plan to make nylon squares to fix sand dunes first, and then plant trees, but how many nylon squares must be made in the 30,000-mu desert? the cost is too high. Not feasible.

They drilled machine wells in the desert and wanted to pump up groundwater to water the trees. But watering tens of thousands of saplings one by one in the desert is not easy. Failed.

In order to prevent wind and sand from knocking down the saplings, they pulled soil to cultivate around the saplings. As a result, the wind and sand not only swept away the sand, but also swept away the soil and saplings under the sand. Failed.

They have planted Populus euphratica, Xinjiang poplar, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Haloxylon ammodendron, Huabang and Elaeagnus angustifolia, and the survival rate is less than 20%. Every spring, just a touch of green appeared in the desert, and a strong wind swept away the green.

One failed attempt, another failed exploration, it seems that this sandy land is almost discouraged. However, their will has always been firm, they have never given up, repeated defeats and repeated defeats.

The four people who first came to Yelan with Ye Huiping to manage the desert, because they could not bear the blow of failure and could not adapt to the living environment here, all left one after another. Ye Huiping did not leave, nor did she think of giving up.

Until 2014, Ye Huiping finally saw hope. After planting, they found that Salix is ​​best suited to grow in the Tengger Desert. Salix saplings are planted at a depth of 1.2 meters, and they can absorb the groundwater. After planting two branches, after survival, it can become several branches, dozens, or dozens of branches. The sand-fixing effect is very good, and the survival rate can reach more than 90%.

This is a big surprise. From 2012 to 2014, they planted less than 10,000 mu of trees. In 2015, they planted 10,000 mu, and in 2016, they planted another 10,000 mu. So far, the greening task of the 30,000 mu desert has basically been completed.

Desert becomes an oasis

Salix planted in 2015 has grown to more than two meters high, it is very spectacular. The planting cost of 1 mu of Salix is ​​only 150 yuan.

The sand dunes are embraced by vegetation and become "rules", no longer wanton flowing. The effectiveness of desert management is beginning to show, which makes Ye Huiping's team very excited and has the impetus to move forward.

Today, Alxa Mengyuan Huilin Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. has a total of 10 fixed employees, most of whom were selected by Ye Huiping from the temporary workers who planted trees and reforestation over the years. Spring is windy and it is a crucial period for planting trees and reforestation. They have to race against time. Every day when they are working, they have to put a cloth cover on their heads, and wrap their heads, faces and necks tightly, only showing two eyes.

To increase efficiency, they set up camps in the hinterland of the desert and eat and live in tents. Complete the mission of planting trees in this desert, and then move to the next place. The camps are constantly shifting, and the vegetation area is constantly expanding.

Ye Huiping liked plants since childhood. After coming to Malan Lake, he developed a special affection for sandy plants. She insists that plants are spiritual. To prove her point of view, she cited the results of a foreign scientist's research, saying that plants and animals are as perceptible. Regardless of whether her sense of perception exists or not, in short, the sand willows she planted are alive, the vegetation is green, and the dunes are beautiful.

"The 30,000 acres of sandy land we have contracted has basically been completed. Now, we will manage the top of the sand. By then, Malan Lake will form its own microclimate." Ye Huiping said a word in Fujian Mandarin Good to hear.

What is the concept of 30,000 mu? If converted into area, it is 20 square kilometers; the 20 square kilometers of desert are all rolling sand dunes, and some sand dunes are very high, more like a hill. "I can't find a tree, even decent shrubs are hard to find. Magpies can't find a tree to build a nest, so they have to build their nest on a small shrub." The scene I saw when I first arrived at Malan Lake was Ye Huiping. unforgettable memory.

"Now badger pigs, foxes, hares and other animals have become permanent residents of Malan Lake, and more than 20 kinds of birds have flown." Ye Huiping said that these were not trivial.

"We are a small team in the land greening army, built an oasis in the desert, and changed the ecology here. Looking at the changes here, everyone feels that they are not busy." Ye Huiping said.

(Wang Kai, Rong Songru, Liu Chun, Liu Hongzhang, Wei Yimin)

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