Jinjiang genuine 163
Inner Mongolia, where Alxa League is located, is an important ecological security barrier in northern my country and plays an important strategic role in ecological security.
In recent years, under the unified planning of a series of national key ecological projects, an average of 12 million mu of desertified and sandy land has been rehabilitated and more than 30 million mu of grass has been planted, ranking first in the country.
It is not measured in mu, but in ten thousand mu.
12 million mu is equivalent to the area of 5,500 Huajianji Botanical Gardens. It is not enough to describe it as boundless. It would probably take 10 years to walk through it.
And this is just the greening area of the country in Inner Mongolia in one year.
In the face of the efforts of several generations of the country and powerful policies, the planting area of Ant S Forest seems so insignificant, but it embodies the hard work of the people across the country.
Ye Han did the same.
Even if the cultivated area is less than one thousandth of the country's total, she will still contribute her part.
The geographical location here is remote and the wind and sand are strong. With the reception of partners and local people, Ye Han successfully found the No. XXX forest that they were about to plant.
The Haloxylon ammodendron trees in the front area were also planted not long ago and are still seedlings. They are not big, about 30 to 40 centimeters tall, growing in clusters, with few branches.
They are planted scattered around, with only one tree seen every four or five meters, and are very sparse.
Ye Han looked into the distance and saw tiny green spots dotted in rows in the dry and yellow land.
Further away, the small Haloxylon ammodendron seedlings were almost submerged in the sand. Only small green dots could be seen scattered across the vast desert, looming in the scorching sun and blowing sand.
One can't help but wonder, can such a single seedling, with such a sparse planting density, really protect against sandstorms covering hundreds of thousands or even millions of acres?
The fact is, it can.
Haloxylon ammodendron is a shrub or small tree that can grow to 2-9 meters.
In order to absorb water in the arid desert, its taproot can penetrate 10-50 meters deep into the ground, and its fibrous roots can expand to an area of more than ten square meters or even larger around it, firmly fixing the soil and playing a role in preventing wind and sand.
This is why they are planted so sparsely.
If they are planted densely, their roots will not be able to expand underground, their ability to absorb water will be reduced, and they are likely to die of drought.
A desert environment cannot be compared to a normal environment with abundant water resources.
The forest ranger Ye Han met was in his 60s. His surname was Wu and his name was Wu Yusheng. He was a local herdsman.
Over the years, he has witnessed with his own eyes the surrounding arid areas transformed into the green land they are today, and the large tracts of Haloxylon ammodendron trees growing from seedlings to more than one meter tall today. The sense of satisfaction he feels inside is indescribable.
Not only that, the planted plants such as Haloxylon ammodendron and Tamarisk also brought wealth to the local area.
"Although these Haloxylon ammodendrons are small, they are very useful." Wu Yusheng's Mandarin is not standard, but one can hear the pride in his tone: "We call it the 'king of desert vegetation'. It can adapt to high temperatures, wind and sand, and tolerate salt and alkali, and has a strong vitality."
Haloxylon ammodendron can withstand temperatures as high as 60 degrees and as low as minus 40 degrees. Adult trees can still grow tenaciously when the soil salt content reaches 3%. Its vitality is so strong.
But in the seedling stage, it is still possible for it to die due to lack of water.
In desert areas where the annual precipitation is only a few dozen millimeters but the evaporation is as high as thousands of millimeters, tree planters need to irrigate the trees, especially in the dry season.
Most of the tree planters are local herdsmen.
On the one hand, they receive subsidies from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and on the other hand, they also use Haloxylon ammodendron trees to generate income.
The roots of some Haloxylon ammodendron trees are parasitic on the precious tonic Chinese medicinal material [Cistanche deserticola], which has high medicinal value and is known as the "desert ginseng".
The wild species is a national second-level protected plant.
To obtain the precious 'Cistanche deserticola', it is necessary to plant plants such as Haloxylon ammodendron or Tamarix chinensis, because the other plants are parasitic and cannot survive on their own.
This is the fundamental reason why Haloxylon ammodendron can be planted on a large scale.
Nowadays, the technology of artificial cultivation and grafting of Cistanche deserticola has become very common in the local area, bringing good economic benefits.
Late March to late April is the harvesting season for Cistanche deserticola, so Wu Yusheng took Ye Han to the site to check it out.
They naturally cannot parasitize on Haloxylon ammodendron trees that have just been planted for one or two years. What they want to go to is the Haloxylon ammodendron forest that has been planted for more than five years.
It takes 3 years of grafting and 3 years of harvesting, and 6 years to obtain the precious Cistanche deserticola.
However, after the first grafting, they will be retained based on their growth size, so that there will be suitable ones to pick every year.
After driving a long distance, Ye Han finally arrived at the green Haloxylon ammodendron forest ahead.
The Haloxylon ammodendron trees here grow to more than one meter in height and have many branches, but the branches are still slender and even slightly dry, which is a characteristic of desert plants.
Wu Yusheng took a quick look around and found a few Cistanche deserticola plants popping up near the roots of several Haloxylon ammodendron trees. He then carefully dug them with a shovel, digging deeper and deeper.
Ye Han saw their full appearance.
They are surprisingly large in size, as thick as a wrist. The small ones are forty to fifty centimeters long, while the tallest can be up to one meter long.
The whole thing is buried underground, the lower part is slender, and the flower spikes on the top are shaped like pine cones, with a large number of lavender flowers about to bloom.
Wu Yusheng expressed satisfaction: "These are quite thick and can be sold at a good price."
He also told Ye Han that now was the best time to dig.
By the time all the flowers have bloomed, the nutrients will be lost in large quantities, and it will be too late by then.
During the harvest season, he and other herders patrolled in groups and started work as soon as they saw cracks or sprouts under the trees.
Wu Yusheng looked around at the flat ground and said, "As for the other small ones, wait for them to grow longer. There's no rush."
The small ones cannot be sold at a high price, and there is no point in digging them up now.
Ye Han lowered his eyes and thought, if it weren't for the high value of Cistanche deserticola, the Haloxylon ammodendron tree would probably not have grown to its current appearance.
Before this, local herders had been making a living by grazing.
The young branches of Haloxylon ammodendron are fodder for camels, but overgrazing has made the already fragile ecology even more barren. As the land becomes desertified, people are becoming poorer and poorer.
Later, the country banned grazing, but some people still did it secretly.
Now, they have a certain income as forest rangers, and another income from collecting and selling seeds; plus the output value of Cistanche deserticola, the annual profit is quite considerable, with the average income of a single family exceeding 100,000 yuan.
Industries with better returns completely replaced the original animal husbandry.
Nowadays, not only do they not graze, they also take the initiative to protect the grasslands and plant more Haloxylon ammodendron trees to increase income.
Ultimately, in economically backward areas, only when economic interests are tied to environmental protection can there be outstanding results.
How is it possible for a person who knows nothing but grazing to ban grazing just to protect the environment?
It's like asking a family with cancer who can't afford the surgery to donate to the Wildlife Conservation Association. It's a fantasy.
When people are busy taking care of themselves, protecting the environment is just a distant slogan.
People in war-torn areas will never think of protecting the environment, and neither will people who are starving to death.
Even though there are irreconcilable contradictions between environment and economic development, it is undeniable that economic development is indeed important.
When the economy is underdeveloped, people always think about cutting down trees to make money, so it is useless to plant more trees.
Ye Han was deeply touched by this.
I am also extremely grateful that the country has given local residents a better way to get rich.
The efforts of several generations will never be in vain.
In the next two days, Ye Han focused on the prices of vegetation and tree species.
The price of Haloxylon ammodendron/Caragana korshinskii is very cheap. Even if purchased in large quantities of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, the unit price is 0.1-0.5 yuan.
Even large-plant high-quality seedlings are only around 0.7-1 yuan, which is incredibly cheap.
I can understand that.
The local planting area of Haloxylon ammodendron is as high as tens of millions of mu, and the seeds can be collected freely, which naturally brings down the price.
For example, large seedlings of poplar, larch, spruce, and Chinese pine cost about 8 to 20 yuan, which are more than ten times taller than Haloxylon ammodendron.
Ye Han plans to introduce high-quality saplings so that they can grow faster and achieve the effect of preventing wind and fixing sand.
Upon learning that another big shot in the public welfare greening business had arrived, Director Ma from the Forestry and Grassland Bureau warmly received Ye Han.
He also said that now the herders have achieved large-scale results in generating income and planting trees, and with the support of the state, there is nothing to worry about.
Ye Han agreed.
This is a public welfare project that generates income for local people. Even for their own interests, they will take good care of it.
After discussion, Ye Han demarcated the first batch of planting areas.
Haloxylon ammodendron: Area: 3,630 mu, number: 181,500 trees.
Caragana: Area: 1,840 mu, number: 180,400 trees.
Sea buckthorn: area 1,020 acres, number 132,600 trees.
Salix psammophila: Area: 774 mu, Number: 92,880 trees.
Populus euphratica: Area: 637 mu, number: 15,290 trees.
Spruce: Area: 395 mu, number: 32,340 trees.
The total greening area is 8,296 mu, with 635,000 trees planted.
At that time, the corresponding number will be opened in the relevant interface, which will far exceed the previous estimate of 300,000 trees, and cannot be redeemed in a short time.
As for other tree species demanded by tourists, they will be merged with other forest areas of Ant S Forest next month.
After spring, the next batch of planting will be around autumn.
Will continue planting then.
Ye Han signed a donation contract. The cost of purchasing the saplings was not high, 2 million yuan was enough.
Director Ma promised to organize local people and workers to plant trees as soon as possible. The initial water irrigation, pipeline laying and seedling maintenance also require a sum of money, totaling about 2.8 million yuan.
We also need to recruit 4-5 forest rangers.
Alxa is a vast area with a sparse population, so it does not require much supervision. As long as the plants in the desert take root deep in the soil, they will survive and do not require much management in the later stages.
After the news was released, many local people came to apply for the job.
Being a forest ranger means an extra salary, and no one would refuse the job.
But Ye Han had other requests.
She needs the other party to cooperate with the promotion of the official account and frequently provide feedback on the growth of the trees; she also starts live broadcasts every once in a while so that everyone can truly feel the fun of cloud tree cultivation while planting.
Instead of receiving the orders to plant the trees and then nothing happening again, there is even doubt as to whether the trees were actually planted.
In addition, Ye Han discovered that there were no signs on all the trees here, only a wooden sign in front of each forest farm read Ant S Forest No. XXX.
It is understandable that it is extremely energy-consuming and time-consuming to put nameplates on all the millions or tens of millions of saplings every year.
Moreover, although Ant S Forest allows one tree to be redeemed online and one tree to be planted offline, trees are not planted one by one, but mostly tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of trees are planted together.
With hundreds of thousands of trees, it is impossible for there to be no error. The error allowed by the country is ±5% per hectare.
In addition to the 80%-90% survival rate, seedling replacement is another error.
Errors in time, errors in the number of introductions, errors in survival rates, errors in planning and reality...
Everything cannot be investigated in depth, otherwise many people will find that their saplings do not match.
In short, after so many years of planting and with a total of 220 million trees, it has become impossible to label every tree.
But for individuals, every tree is the result of everyone's hard work in saving energy, reducing emissions and accumulating energy.
If you can’t find the trees you planted, the sense of achievement will be greatly reduced.
Motivation will also be dampened.
Therefore, Ye Han decided to list it from the beginning and proceed in batches.
Ensure that every tourist who redeems their sapling can see his or her own sapling, and once again arouse everyone's enthusiasm for planting trees.
The number she set started from the nine-digit '000000001', and the end point was a small goal - 100 million trees!
Ye Han believed that he would achieve it in his lifetime.
After much thought, it was decided that the local forest rangers were not up to the task.
Ye Han plans to recruit another 10-person supervision team to be responsible for labeling trees, live broadcasts, taking photos and providing feedback, checking the growth status of seedlings, etc.
But the environment here is quite harsh, and I’m not sure if I can recruit anyone.
Just post the position first, the salary can be higher.
In the evening before leaving, the saplings had been transported from the surrounding forest farms along with those of Ant S Forest.
What Ye Han ordered was obviously of better quality. The Haloxylon ammodendron tree was over 60 centimeters long and very large.
She opened the light screen panel and redeemed [Irrigation System Construction: 300 Points].
After confirmation, in coordination with WO4's printing, the water droplets happily worked under the abundant sunshine, laying pipes 50 meters underground.
Although parts of Alxa are covered with desert, there are also many freshwater lakes, snow water flowing down from glaciers, and abundant groundwater, but the salt content is high and it is not drinkable.
Ye Han built an irrigation system to filter and purify the water into high-quality spring water, which continuously provides water for the shrubs and seedlings she planted.
By the way, she could also connect other irrigation equipment for primary filtration. That was all she could help with.
After the construction was completed, Ye Han placed two bottles of plant nutrient solution into the groove.
The irrigation system will automatically dilute the concentration and irrigate according to the degree of water shortage of the plants.
As long as the initial stage is over, the roots of plants such as Haloxylon ammodendron are deeply rooted in the soil and there is no need for continued supply. The vitality of desert plants is strong enough.
I hope that next time I come here, this place will become a real forest.
At the same time, Ye Han also exchanged 10 dynamic surveillance cameras, totaling 75 points.
At that time, we will simulate the use of drones to shoot the seven forests created by Huajianji from various angles, so that everyone can see the numbers of the trees they have planted.
Since the announcement of [Huajianji x Ant S Forest Cooperation] was issued and became a hot topic, more than 100,000 saplings have been exchanged within a week.
The reading and search volumes of related entries exceeded 100 million, bringing unprecedented popularity.
Many people can see the icon of Huajianji surrounded by plants below when they enter Ant S Forest. It is very interesting and they will click on it unconsciously.
Yao Bing was the same. Although he had already exchanged a Haloxylon ammodendron and a Larix gmelinii, he still couldn't help but look at them over and over again.
The opening screen animation is different every time.
During the day, it starts with a desert full of wind and sand, the scorching sun, and patches of Haloxylon ammodendron trees looming in the distance, followed by a line of introduction about Haloxylon ammodendron trees.
When you turn it on at night, the cold moonlight is reflected over the vast desert, which looks empty and lonely.
Sometimes, the weather changes.
The desert was greeted by a sudden rainfall, which quickly disappeared without a trace. The sea buckthorn could be seen desperately absorbing water, and then becoming dry again. The last text was an introduction to sea buckthorn.
Yao Bing clicks on it several times a day and now has a complete understanding of these tenacious desert plants.
She clicked on the Haloxylon ammodendron tree she had exchanged.
A satellite cloud map appeared, marking the location of the Alxa Desert, and then automatically zoomed in to the entire Ant S Forest, and then to Forest No. XXX.
Finally, the full picture of the Haloxylon ammodendron tree appeared before her eyes. It stood tenaciously in the scorching sun, its green color was pleasing to the eye, and a wooden sign was hung on the largest branch.
Huajianji | Ant Forest Forest No. XXX: Haloxylon ammodendron.
Number: 000008044.
It is exactly the same as the environmental certificate number she obtained.
There is no doubt that this is her Haloxylon ammodendron tree!
Yao Bing got very excited every time he saw it, and kept stroking its lush branches with his hands.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but I seem to have grown up a little recently.
If only I could see it with my own eyes.
At the same time, Liu Yi reported the comments and data on the Internet.
High popularity also means various discussions and questions.
Some people think that Huajianji should not have a separate interface.
After all, compared with Ant Forest, which has 550 million participants, Huajianji's audience is far less.
But more people said, isn’t it all for charity?
If you don't like it, you don't have to order it.
You control everything in the world, and even manage other people's charity work?
It's so awesome, why don't you do it and make a contribution to the motherland.
The other party was instantly speechless.
However, the separate redemption of Huajianji does make many people feel unbalanced.
They work so hard and steal energy every day to finally grow a tree, but others can get one by just buying an annual pass?
It’s so unfair!
Is it so easy to plant trees in the desert?
There are also those certificates posted online. It is said that as long as you pay the shipping fee yourself, you can have the physical certificate mailed to your home!
Grass.
Not to mention the nameplates hung on the trees, which fully prove that they were donated by the other party.
Unlike them, I have never seen the tree I planted and have no idea which one it is.
I have to say, it's awfully sour.
The most important thing is that the application for Huajianji annual pass has ended, and it is not realistic to buy five tickets at once, so I can only watch.
So angry.
Why can’t the energy be merged? Why why why!
In addition to this group of people, there are many people on the Internet who question the authenticity.
“Has anyone ever been on a field trip?”
“A few bloggers went there, but the area is so large that they couldn’t seem to find a place.”
"Haha, you don't have any seeds at all, do you?"
"It feels so fake that hundreds of thousands of trees were planted so quickly and grew so big."
"Indeed, it's a desert. When was it planted?"
"After seeing the images at the Huajianji Science Museum, I became reserved. After all, technology can be faked."
"I won't believe it unless I see it with my own eyes."
Liu Yi was speechless after reading this. Some people are like blind people and just can't see the facts.
Ye Han had already prepared a response.
On March 31, the official website of Huajianji officially issued a notice:
From April 6th to April 8th, 20 people will be recruited to go to Alxa for a field investigation, and Huajianji will reimburse all travel expenses.
The National Three North Shelterbelt Project is really amazing. The annual greening area is equivalent to that of South Korea. The Ant Forest is insignificant in comparison with the country.
Note: Korea, a unit of measurement.
Note ①, extracted from the Internet.
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