Achievements made in desert control along Yarlung Zangbo River in SW China

Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-23 07:18:09|Editor: mmm
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Aerial photo taken on July 23, 2018 shows a shelterbelt forest in Zhanang County of Shannan, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Over the past four decades, the Shannan people have made achievements in desert control by building a 1.8-kilometer-wide "green Great Wall" that stretches 160 kilometers. More than 30,000 hectares of desert land in the middle reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River has been reclaimed. (Xinhua/Liu Dongjun)

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