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A green wall rising against the sands
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Makit County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the only county in China completely surrounded by desert. On the southwestern rim of the Taklimakan, the world's second-largest shifting desert, life here has always been a fight against the sand.
But that is changing. Over the past 13 years, locals have planted more than 30,000 hectares of drought-resistant trees, transforming dunes into farmland, orchards and livelihoods. Their efforts are part of a much larger national project – a shelterbelt stretching 3,046 kilometers around the Taklimakan, the longest desert green belt of its kind in the world.
It's not only stopping sandstorms; it's opening roads, boosting tourism and reshaping life on the desert's edge.
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