Chinese Dream Yellow River Love ｜ This once loess plateau was covered with ＂green clothes＂

　　As soon as the sky was white in the east, Gu Yuzhong, a ranger in Chedaoling, anding district, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, got on a motorcycle and entered the forest farm.

　　"The bitterness in the middle of Gansu is the best in the world." Dingxi has fragile ecology, serious soil erosion and high evaporation. Locals often say that in Dingxi, it is easier to plant a living tree than to raise a child.

　　This is the 30th year of Gu Yuzhong’s forest protection. "I am responsible for fire prevention, theft prevention and pest prevention of 1,300 mu of forest. Although it is hard, it is very meaningful, and there is a good income." Gu Yuzhong said.

　　Chedaoling Forest Farm has 8 mountain ridges and more than 50 gullies and bays, and more than 13,000 mu of land is now covered with "green clothes", with a forest coverage rate of 92.75%. There are 208 mu of nursery land and 800,000 seedlings in the nursery of forest farm, mainly including spruce, Platycladus orientalis, Pinus tabulaeformis, Robinia pseudoacacia, five-pointed maple, Populus hopeiensis and Sophora japonica.

　　The persistence of green supports people here to plant trees without stopping. After more than 60 years of unremitting efforts, a green barrier has finally been built on the driveway ridge across Yu’ an county.

　　Walking into Nanshan, anding district, Dingxi City, green spread. And three years ago, it was still a barren hill.

　　In 2017, the poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west helped Fuzhou, Fujian Province in Dingxi, and started with ecological poverty alleviation, funded the construction of ecological forests. Three years later, the afforestation area has reached 11,100 mu, with an investment of 45.99 million yuan.

　　"Under the extremely dry climate conditions in Dingxi, the key to afforestation is to solve the problem of water shortage." Chen Zhengbin, a member of the Party Committee of anding district Forestry and Grassland Bureau in Dingxi City, said that with the help of Fuzhou, they chose drought-tolerant tree species, added water-retaining agents during afforestation, and built water conservancy facilities at the same time, which led to this green field under their feet.

　　By September, 2020, anding district’s forestry land area accounts for 38% of the total land area, with 1,177,500 mu of natural grassland and a forest coverage rate of 17.98%. Satellite images show that in the past 20 years, Dingxi’s green has been expanding from point to line and from line to surface.

　　The mountain is called "tableland" here, with steep surroundings and flat top. The crack between the two mountains is called a "ditch", and a new road is paved at the bottom of the ditch, drifting away. Standing on a high place overlooking, Haloxylon ammodendron is a forest with dense vegetation. The once endless dry plateau is now covered with "green clothes" … …