Kubuqi: reclaiming the desert
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CHINA is aiming to transform a barren desert into an economic development area with vegetation coverage of 53 percent. An international forum will be held on July 28 in Kubuqi Desert, aiming to share the Chinese experience in reforesting the desert.
This experience, known as the Kubuqi Model, urged people to create enterprises using technology to control desertification on a large scale.
Erik Solheim, executive director of United Nations Environment Program, said the Kubuqi Model offered precious experience for other countries and regions suffering from desertification and that such experience should spread along the Belt and Road for local benefit.
Farmers and herdsmen in Kubuqi plant liquorice to improve the soil and build photovoltaic power stations for electricity.
“The desert is terrible, but the problem can be tackled,” said Luo Bin, a State Forestry Administration official in charge of desert control.
Kubuqi is the seventh largest desert in China, covering 18,600 square kilometers. Beijing, only 800 kilometers away, was often troubled by sand storms in the past.
More than 6,000 square kilometers of desert have been forested and 90 percent of sand storms reduced.
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