As the spring comes, cherry blossoms have come to full bloom across China and migrant birds are flying back north.

Thousands of migrant birds flew back to the Yellow River wetland in Dalat Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. More than 10 kinds of birds, such as swans, herons, egrets, and ruddy shelducks were found inhabiting the wetland recently and, as the local ecological improvement efforts have continued, so too has the gradual expansion of the water surface at the wetland in the Dalat section of the Yellow River. 

At the same time, the number of birds transiting, inhabiting and breeding in the Yuehai Wetland Park in Yinchuan City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is about 120,000. 43 white swans have also been found swimming on the lake for the first time. 

In the Shanghai Municipality, east China, an ocean of pink and purple cherry trees are in their full blooms in Gucun Park. The park has been closed for the epidemic prevention and control, and the delightfully colored flowers in the park seem to be wait for the visitors to come following the victory over the virus.

In the city of Weinan, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, over 73.3 hectares of cherry trees against a blue sky present a flourishing spring picture in the countryside. In recent years, the local government has vigorously developed the cherry planting industry and provided free cherry saplings to help the poor households in the villages get rid of poverty.

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