We in the US suffered the same thing in the midwest. It comes from over-planting food crops and livestock overgrazing. For this to be successful, they need to mimic nature. Plant different species of trees and shrubs. Then they can plant food crops in between to feed the local community and then export to other cities to generate revenue. It's a huge investment of labor and resources but without that investment they will not see a cessation of sandstorm. I wish them good fortune. May it rain on their trees!
@@zano187 Most of the good news coverage about China is propaganda and most of the bad is fact. The proper question, then, is when will China collapse?
Yes, they did a great job covering up the massive flooding in Beijing since hardly anyone in China seems to know about it. It was very nice of them to divert the flood waters into another city as well, killing even more people.
The Chinese are more like an interstellar nation. They have a firm long-term plan and strive to change everything. In the future, humans will migrate to Mars to transform the environment. If even the sand on the earth can’t be managed well, where will interstellar immigration come from? The West uses science fiction films to achieve it, while China uses practical actions to achieve it. I don’t know how far the difference is. If there is no long-term perseverance and persistence, human beings will never be able to achieve interstellar civilization. This is the real light of human beings.
Years ago people constantly downed this idea because they thought the Chinese creating Great Green Wall was going to die due to using only one type of tree. The conversation about this starts at 6:50 by Haisheng Yu. They learned that planting Poplar Trees was a bad idea after they saw them die quickly, but they pivoted. The point I'm trying to make here is yeah that might have been a bad decision due to urgency but they at least are DOING SOMETHING... Here in the US if there is a major problem like this its like we throw our hands up or expect companies to solve the problem for us. In China they're like F that, lets mobilize a massive initiative and solve this which is a good thing. They learned, they improved, on a massive scale. That's how it should be.
What are you talking about? There are literally thousands of habitat restoration projects all over the United States funded at all levels of government and by both nonprofit and private groups. Communities working to protect and restore the environment is not a battlefield of nationalistic fervor.
@@cchotyoung What are you on about? They are talking about actually observable and factually accurate things going on, not any ideology. There are a wide array of governmental agencies, non and for profit organizations involved, community involvement or individuals, either by widescale environmental issues, niche issues, or targeting specific areas/regions in the USA, or well, most of the world really.
@@chriswilkerson4074 Doubt. Even with some groups trying to restore the environment, there is no real national effort to do so on the scale that China is doing. A few acres here, a few hectares there is a drop in the bucket, not when profit seeking companies are constantly eyeing to plant, log, drill and mine the lands into dust.
First country to do it since the 1950s while everyone was laughing at them, they deserve their huge success today, bravo. Unfortunately this documentary barely covers the whole story, the green belt estimated at 4,500 kilometres begining since the 1950s has had so many types techniques applied to it by different groups of farmers from different regions, and it is with the government's support, every tree planted, the goverment pays the farmers, so the farmers don't work for nothing (unlike today where government starts charities to get volunteers to do it for free and the gov just keep taking your tax money), there were many failures but many success as well, ultimately perseverance kept them going, and they were doing it for future generations, this was all before our woke time (eco, green, carbon, global warming, climate change, etc... craps), now many countries are replicating what china did, but no credits given, racism and politics still gets in the way, it's so hard for china haters to give a simple nod of acnowledgment.
a lot of the sandstorms seen in china in recent years actually started up north in mongolia due to their overgrazing and mining industry, which lead to their deterioating ecosystem.
a few came together to plant trees in an area the size of Great Britain to prevent sandstorms from crossing a whole damn nation...Imagine what more could be done if more people, companies, orgs, government, etc. came together.
I mean, they are in fact putting people in “reeducation camps” there simply for being Muslim. So yeah i wouldn’t be surprised if some of this is forced labor lmao
You can't be so naive. They are literally FORCED to work. Driven out of self sufficient happiness in the country and driven into big cities to be controlled by the government.
They did it to themselves. The Four Pests campaign was a massive success in riding their country of said pests, by destroying the ecology and allowing pests to thrive themselves (and the local population) to death.
They already failed. This is old news. I saw videos of some of the people who have fought the sands for over 2 decades crying as the government officials told them they could no longer get water because it was allocated to the factories.
@@chillxxx241 fake news, some of the trees do die off, but that's natural. the point is, some trees do get to live to stable the sand and that is enough for the project to be considered successful. China is the best in fighting against desertification in the whole world. over 50% if trees planted for the past decade is in china alone.
Shrubbery and smaller plants are also required to stabilize the soil and enrich it, having a biodiverse forest is best for the long term survival of the green belt
Yes, but first you need to stop winds with trees and make them create a canopy that will prevent intense desert sun from burning grass and shrubs. We had similar problems with agricultural lands in southern Russian (at that time - Soviet) regions. But not because of desertification but wind erosion of top layers of soil. The solution was to plant thick lines of trees on the edge of every field. You can see it in videos from Ukraine for example. Troops use those treelines as cover in otherwise completely open fields. Those treelines are not natural. They were planted long ago to make those lands fit for agriculture and their destruction now poses another problem which have to be solved after the war.
A lot of it is pointless. Just planting trees in the desert does not work. A lot in China is just facade. The problem is not, that there is sand, the problem is, that there is no water. So they either have to pump a lot of water to the desert or they just have to except, that it is desert. Of cause it helps to have the right plants for the climate, but if you really want to make the desert green, you need constantly a lot of water.
@@blurpblurp "go and read and stop shaming others efforts" They literally try to plant trees in sand dunes and think it would work, if they water them now and then. The soil is not suitable for a forest and there will never be enough rain for something like this. Artificial rivers and/or huge water pipes are the only ways to support the kind of vegetation they want there. But yeah: "So cool. I love the green initiatives in China. It's very inspiring." Let's be positive about everything, even if it is absolutely stupid (like a war against sparrows).
Please understand the sandstorms in Mongolia. Due to mining and grazing, desertification occurs in Mongolia, and the sandstorms blow to China every year
Really? Didn't the US defeat the Imperialist Japanese that were brutalizing hundreds of millions of Chinese people? And didn't the US lose a huge number of lives defending Korea against the communists? Who did the CCP support? That's right, the North Korean communists. America also lost a lot of lives trying to prevent Vietnam being taken over by communists. And who did China support? The North Vietnamese communists.
According to Global Forest Watch, the total area of primary forest in China has declined by 4.4% from 2002 to 2020. Whilst exports of more than half of all timber coming from all over the world are destined to China. The Country is largest importer of wood-based products in the world. So yes, like how to damage the planet.
@@PopularesVox And according to Google Earth and NASA, China and India are the biggest greeners of the world literally just open google earth and look at historical data.
@@ATNXK Tremendous damage has been done to China's native forests, so much so, that it would take decades to recover. The loss has been so great, that nearly one in five Chinese tree species are under threat. Replanting trees isn't an alternative if that planting was of only limited species. Much of the new forest planting is aimed at timber production for the domestic lumber market or stemming severe erosion, rather than restoring native woodland and protecting species. Published studies reveal, most reforestation efforts simply planted one tree species, making a plot of reforested land ecologically akin to a monoculture plantation. The main motive of course being profit, because such has been the relentless and uncaring supply of wood to satisfy in Chinese manufacturing, that it has been responsible for the clearance of huge tracts of native forest in Congo and Cameroon in central Africa, the Amazon basin and the islands of Indonesia,
@@meilinchan7314 This is why trickle down economies/depending on the rich to pay for everything strategies dont work. When you give the rich/business tax breaks (even for charity), they will always find ways to save even pennies even at the cost of a lack of ethics. All these billionaires giving millions to charity get millions from tax breaks through those charities, so they end up even profiting at times! There are very very few billionaires who genuinely give money for the sake of supporting their country, people, and world and re very much the exception to the rule.
I think the word protecting Beijing is too politicized, and it is not only Beijing that is affected by the sandstorms, but also other northwestern provinces of China, which is a difficult task that can benefit future generations, and the Chinese people have made great efforts
How China fights climate change: Plant more trees and develop green energy. How Western countries fight climate change: Ask China to do more while emmitting twice as much as China per capita.
Western activists fight for climate change to-do list: - Block the main streets - Crash into event or summit with protest poster - VandaIise tourism objects and arts - the list goes on.
Wrong : Qatar has the highest per capita carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, at 35.6 metric tons per person.China emits 8.73 meteoric tons per person , USA emits 15.32 metric tons / Person .
@@TTT-yn2jl thats What i meant also per capita there are a Lot of Western countries WHO consume less. In West you Always consider americans france and so on. Countries such as rumania consume less. I hate the therm West. Its the Same Like East.
I would have liked to get to know how big the reclaimed area is in total in China and how sustainable it actually is, does the desert shrink or still expand?
Gobi used to grow at 10,000 square kilometers per year at 1980-1990. at 2022 it managed to shrinked at pace of 2,000 square kilometers per year. frequency of sandstorm is reduced to 1/5, 28 million hectare are reclaimed shelterbelt which protect against desertification was slow and ardous but naturalized protected forest area fare much better so the overall result is still satisfactory
Some people whine and complain, while the Chinese simply put their heads down and work. As long as China perseveres, eventually they will succeed. It may take 20, 30 or even 100 years but eventually they will find a way.
Unfortunately they are at the whims of the CCP, Which has ordered that trees and forests be cut and razed for farmland, no matter how poor or dumb the location is. It's at least funny to watch some officials place dirt on a parking lot and stick plants in it to meet central government mandates of more farmland.
@BSnicks fun fact: In China, if Officials inform residents ahead of time that they will be intentionally fluded, they are required to pay compensation. If they do not give them an advanced warning, then it will be considered a natural disaster, and no compensation is required.
I'm more interested on learning how people in the middle east/North Africa dealing with the sand. They are living their for generations, probably have better ways of fighting desertification.
This is not just to change Beijing, this is to change your own home, change your next generation, change the whole earth, I feel sorry for your selfishness
Yet the whole Western world was cheering for the Greta girl. I said Western because she was very badly received in China because Chinese value actions a lot more than words.
In Chinese word, "beijing" is not just a city's name, and also can translate to north area. In this video , i think the correct meaning is the last one.
In fact, there is an error in the translation, and the person in the video is actually saying "beijiang", which means the northern border. In the Chinese dialect, this word sounds very similar to Beijing. As a Chinese, I am able to distinguish between the two words. Of course, it is undeniable that this project has protected Beijing's environment while improving the natural environment of the northern border. That is why, even though Beijing is now no longer affected by sandstorms, the project is still continuing in the northern border of China. Because the people of the northern border also want to continue to improve their living environment.
Damn ..!! There Plan For the Next 30 Years To Turn this whole Sand Area Into Forest or Jungle 😍 This kind of Long term Plans and Patient and hard working Needs This world Now a days to fight against the New Global Warming situations...
The only downside with this way of tree planting is its only function is to prevent the sandstorms from affecting China. A better way of planting forests is to incorporate more biodiversity and put more effort into the planning and planting to generate proper forests, but this is a much slower and more time consuming process. This is a great first step though!
@@randompersonontheinternet8790 Shh donttell them that. Apparently 30+ years later they are still learning to crawl. Objectively what you brought up is a great point and there really isnt much that can be done other than having some actual barrier to stop spreading of desert. It's us vs the earth.
@@holysword876 If you think biodiversity hasn't been discussed, it's because you overestimate how fast we humans can figure out novel, provable methods. China is basically at the forefront along with Israel. Everything is hard earned and there is no biodiversity key we can just turn.
No wonder China are moving fast agains progres and number one economy in the world. This is planing in the good way. These people are tough !!!!!!!!!!!
China needs to use the technique of planting in trenches, several advantages, greater proximity of the plant roots to moisture in the deep soil, plants remain in the shade while they are young, possibility of filling the bottom of the trenches with organic matter coming from other regions, protection against winds , highly mechanizable. If it is necessary to produce small biodegradable panels made of organic material to support the trenches and protect against sand invasion, the organic panel would be 30cm+ inside the trench and 30cm+ outside as protection against windblown sand. These panels could be made from straw, wood, leaves, etc. pressed and applied mechanically. An alternative to trenches are biodegradable boxes for individual plants that allow you to maintain a hole in the sand where the plant remains deep and protected.
I wonder why they take out the dead trees, since they also stabilize the ground in the long run and act as biomass for other things to grow there. Maybe because of possible fires?
why not plant trees like date trees that thrive even without water? neem tree is also pretty common now in dubai. It's very versatile whether in the summer or winter
They won't survive in the winter when the temperature gets below zero, in some extreme days the temperature can be below -20℃ or even less in regions close to Bejing.
In the interview, they are saying the Great Green Wall is here to "protect Bei Jiang" which means "Northern Borders", not "Beijing". Translation is not correct.
Lack of water. Natural rainfall variation. Area that dont get enough rain will become desert, like lybia. Tree does not create rain. As soon as they stop watering those plants it will die...some might be already dead
Its quite touching to see a army of civilians marching under the guidance of a red flag with a mission to save from desertification . Instead of carrying guns to kill people it is better to carry shovel and trees to save the country.
Why did you not gather up all the sargassum seaweed 5000 square miles & plop it right there in the desert. Cover it up with wood chips & plant pioneer species as starter succession to more productive fruit & nut bearing species. Banana, coconut, fig, date palm trees, moringa etc. You can put up the air to water innovation coming out to irrigate the trees, shrubs, etc. Whatabout mushroom growth very important for soil health.
and the obligatory plastic used for wrapping the roots gets straight into the ground. Plot twist: They succeed in containing the desert but the soil get toxic due to plastic contamination.
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Already seen this reported on years ago. The issue I take with this is that there may possibly be a high attrition rate due to lack of ecological succession (the trees' roots may overheat or become exposed due to shifting soil), monoculture (meaning a single disease could adversely affect the entire grove), and agricultural overlap (goat herders and shepherds in the region may accidentally have their livestock eat the saplings). Wish there was a better way for these news companies to document their progress with concrete numbers.
You only got half of the story. The way the Chinese do it is by planting one particular plant just to secure top soil layer, once the plants root deep enough, they would plant other more type of trees/plants to sustain the sand storm attacks.
@@AverageGuy916 You're twisting what's been happening. They planted a monoculture of maladapted, fast-growing trees that all died. Only after learning that painful lesson did they pivot to using mixed plantation and that mistake cost them valuable decades of time. Also, there is no soil there that can be secured. It's all sand. The entire video is about blocking the wind from moving the sand around. You're just making things up, for some odd reason.
Ultimately, the solution must be built around capturing the maximum amount of water possible. But landscaping features can't be built as long as the wind keeps burying everything. So that has to be stabilized first.
@@tomsawyer4857 That's exactly the point. They run around with banners that serve no purpose (other than for propaganda videos 08:18), and parrade around big numbers. What you don't see are maps and statistics, i.e. hard data. How many hectares had to be abandoned, how many projects failed, how many projects are there, which ones are doing the best, etc. The only marginally useful information that is in this video is that they started in the 70s with monoculture poplar trees that all failed, causing them to have to start over from scratch, and the mention of tree survivability increasing from 55% to 80% by use of drip irrigation.
It may come as a surprise, but it was a Japanese agronomist, Masahide Toyama (December 14, 1906 - February 27, 2004), who scientifically and systematically initiated the "desert greening project in China. He left his family in Japan in 1972 and moved to China, using his personal fortune, to plant trees in the desert. However, the Chinese at that time did not understand the meaning of "greening of the desert," and the Chinese people obstructed him and treated him as a spy. However, he and the Japanese volunteers continued to plant trees, and in 1996, Jiang Zemin, then general secretary, erected a bronze statue of Toyama in recognition of his achievements in Engebei, Inner Mongolia, China
It's not just climate change, agricultural practices like plowing, cause desertification as well. They need regenerative agriculture. Good effort, but it's missing bio-diversity.
are those modern day project houses in china?not bad tbh does this mean the desert is now ok to build infrastructure iknow we or they are overpopulated iguess theres no other option. butgood stuff , nice too see them actually create something
We in the US suffered the same thing in the midwest. It comes from over-planting food crops and livestock overgrazing. For this to be successful, they need to mimic nature. Plant different species of trees and shrubs. Then they can plant food crops in between to feed the local community and then export to other cities to generate revenue. It's a huge investment of labor and resources but without that investment they will not see a cessation of sandstorm. I wish them good fortune. May it rain on their trees!
Did it works in US?
So rare to see positive reporting on China these days
That’s what the western media is pushing
You need to know who has the say in world public opinion
There's just so little positive to report that isn't propaganda.
@@kingswordsc CCP shill right here
@@zano187 Most of the good news coverage about China is propaganda and most of the bad is fact. The proper question, then, is when will China collapse?
Nothing can stop china when they want to work. They're hard working and United.
Pffft, they are FORCED to work. Driven out of self sufficient happiness in the country and driven into big cities to be controlled by the government.
It’s called long term planning. They have been focusing on this project since the 70s.
Yes, they did a great job covering up the massive flooding in Beijing since hardly anyone in China seems to know about it. It was very nice of them to divert the flood waters into another city as well, killing even more people.
The Chinese are more like an interstellar nation. They have a firm long-term plan and strive to change everything. In the future, humans will migrate to Mars to transform the environment. If even the sand on the earth can’t be managed well, where will interstellar immigration come from? The West uses science fiction films to achieve it, while China uses practical actions to achieve it. I don’t know how far the difference is. If there is no long-term perseverance and persistence, human beings will never be able to achieve interstellar civilization. This is the real light of human beings.
Nothing can stop except the climate
Years ago people constantly downed this idea because they thought the Chinese creating Great Green Wall was going to die due to using only one type of tree. The conversation about this starts at 6:50 by Haisheng Yu. They learned that planting Poplar Trees was a bad idea after they saw them die quickly, but they pivoted. The point I'm trying to make here is yeah that might have been a bad decision due to urgency but they at least are DOING SOMETHING... Here in the US if there is a major problem like this its like we throw our hands up or expect companies to solve the problem for us. In China they're like F that, lets mobilize a massive initiative and solve this which is a good thing. They learned, they improved, on a massive scale. That's how it should be.
What are you talking about? There are literally thousands of habitat restoration projects all over the United States funded at all levels of government and by both nonprofit and private groups.
Communities working to protect and restore the environment is not a battlefield of nationalistic fervor.
failure is the mother of success, perseverance is what counts in the end, also ignoring the critics 👏
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@@cchotyoung What are you on about? They are talking about actually observable and factually accurate things going on, not any ideology. There are a wide array of governmental agencies, non and for profit organizations involved, community involvement or individuals, either by widescale environmental issues, niche issues, or targeting specific areas/regions in the USA, or well, most of the world really.
@@chriswilkerson4074 Doubt. Even with some groups trying to restore the environment, there is no real national effort to do so on the scale that China is doing. A few acres here, a few hectares there is a drop in the bucket, not when profit seeking companies are constantly eyeing to plant, log, drill and mine the lands into dust.
Great job. This is a good example when a country is really doing something for nature.
First country to do it since the 1950s while everyone was laughing at them, they deserve their huge success today, bravo. Unfortunately this documentary barely covers the whole story, the green belt estimated at 4,500 kilometres begining since the 1950s has had so many types techniques applied to it by different groups of farmers from different regions, and it is with the government's support, every tree planted, the goverment pays the farmers, so the farmers don't work for nothing (unlike today where government starts charities to get volunteers to do it for free and the gov just keep taking your tax money), there were many failures but many success as well, ultimately perseverance kept them going, and they were doing it for future generations, this was all before our woke time (eco, green, carbon, global warming, climate change, etc... craps), now many countries are replicating what china did, but no credits given, racism and politics still gets in the way, it's so hard for china haters to give a simple nod of acnowledgment.
把人民大众组织起来是一大法宝
Being an *Authoritarian State* certainly has _some advantages...._
and THIS is undeniably one of them!
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@@HughJass-313 我觉得你还是了解本人的想法比较重要，想象一下2000年中国人还吃不饱饭是什么概念，不要问你周围的那些中国人，有机会来中国看看，问问他们
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Not everyone was laughing at them. The west was laughing at them with its arrogance.
a lot of the sandstorms seen in china in recent years actually started up north in mongolia due to their overgrazing and mining industry, which lead to their deterioating ecosystem.
Yep. These people don’t know how to take care of their own land, better let Chinese take over
Well done people of China, well done. May you succeed in your fight against the desert.
I find this amazing. I didn't know that there is an entire science to keeping sand from moving. I like it.
a few came together to plant trees in an area the size of Great Britain to prevent sandstorms from crossing a whole damn nation...Imagine what more could be done if more people, companies, orgs, government, etc. came together.
中国古代有个成语，叫做“愚公移山”，短视和无知的人们开始都嘲笑愚公的行为，认为对于偌大的王屋山和太行山，愚公就像蚂蚁一样渺小，怎么可能会把两座山挖开呢。可是愚公却说：为了子孙后代，我们可以一直挖，我死了有我儿子，我儿子死了还有我孙子…… 许多年过去了。愚公的后代们走出了大山，他们真的把两座山中间挖通了一条道路。
兄啊，愚公移山的故事里最后是上天派人移走了山：“操蛇之神聞之，懼其不已也，告之於帝。帝感其誠，命夸娥氏二子負二山，一厝朔東 ，一厝雍南 。自是，冀之南，漢之陰，無隴斷焉。”这个故事其实是告诉你，只要你持续闹事，政府总会派人来给你解决问题，会闹的孩子有奶吃。
@@charsensei878 仁者见仁智者见智，瞎子看什么都是黑的！你说的没有错。愚公移山不只是神话故事，更是一种精神。事业是干出来的，而不是哭一哭闹一闹，神仙就给你变出来。同理，造林治沙是一个伟大而漫长的工程，是需要几代人甚至是几十代人像愚公一样成年累月脚踏实地的一直干下去的。你能理解就理解，不能理解我也尽力了！
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@@rangodenalo6185 I am the authority,son.
@@charsensei878 -500 social credit points, you have now been sent to a labor camp in North Korea
BBC and the U.S. government would say all this are done by Uighurs forced labour. 😂😂😂
Lol so true.
I mean, they are in fact putting people in “reeducation camps” there simply for being Muslim. So yeah i wouldn’t be surprised if some of this is forced labor lmao
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You can't be so naive. They are literally FORCED to work. Driven out of self sufficient happiness in the country and driven into big cities to be controlled by the government.
@@abundantharmony travel dude, travel. I know you're too poor to even do that. But at least make an effort in doing that. Travel will fix stupidity.
This problem happens in many places. I hope these people succeed, great effort!
They did it to themselves. The Four Pests campaign was a massive success in riding their country of said pests, by destroying the ecology and allowing pests to thrive themselves (and the local population) to death.
They already failed. This is old news. I saw videos of some of the people who have fought the sands for over 2 decades crying as the government officials told them they could no longer get water because it was allocated to the factories.
@@chillxxx241 fake news, some of the trees do die off, but that's natural. the point is, some trees do get to live to stable the sand and that is enough for the project to be considered successful. China is the best in fighting against desertification in the whole world. over 50% if trees planted for the past decade is in china alone.
@@superpowerdragonexplain why its fake you cant just brush it off like nothing
@@chillxxx241evidence? Video proof?
Why should I take your word with no proof?
Chinese are a great nation, people are hard working and good , just bravo 👏👏👏👏👏
No. There are many great nations in the empire.
Same can't be said for those in leadership
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 those in leadership are no good everywhere
@@smacospasovski5123 True enough
@@user-xf7sh4db1o depends on point of view, some think it's the USA
Great stuff,,wish you every success.
Shrubbery and smaller plants are also required to stabilize the soil and enrich it, having a biodiverse forest is best for the long term survival of the green belt
Yes, but first you need to stop winds with trees and make them create a canopy that will prevent intense desert sun from burning grass and shrubs. We had similar problems with agricultural lands in southern Russian (at that time - Soviet) regions. But not because of desertification but wind erosion of top layers of soil. The solution was to plant thick lines of trees on the edge of every field. You can see it in videos from Ukraine for example. Troops use those treelines as cover in otherwise completely open fields. Those treelines are not natural. They were planted long ago to make those lands fit for agriculture and their destruction now poses another problem which have to be solved after the war.
yeah they should also put some cattle, farm animal waste to enrich the lands
It would be interesting to see it stabilize, but it seems they need to drip irrigate it to sustain.
@@AraKimmy Their waste would be beneficial, but the cattle themselves pose too much of an over-grazing risk.
So cool. I love the green initiatives in China. It's very inspiring.
A lot of it is pointless. Just planting trees in the desert does not work. A lot in China is just facade.
The problem is not, that there is sand, the problem is, that there is no water. So they either have to pump a lot of water to the desert or they just have to except, that it is desert. Of cause it helps to have the right plants for the climate, but if you really want to make the desert green, you need constantly a lot of water.
@@addygreen8919then u need to read more. all your points, they did/ongoing already. go and read and stop shaming others efforts.
@@blurpblurp "go and read and stop shaming others efforts" They literally try to plant trees in sand dunes and think it would work, if they water them now and then.
The soil is not suitable for a forest and there will never be enough rain for something like this.
Artificial rivers and/or huge water pipes are the only ways to support the kind of vegetation they want there.
But yeah: "So cool. I love the green initiatives in China. It's very inspiring." Let's be positive about everything, even if it is absolutely stupid (like a war against sparrows).
@@addygreen8919 dude, do some research, even nasa satelitte agrees that china's aforestation is successful
@@addygreen8919 spot on. All for looks, like spraying rocks to look green.
Please understand the sandstorms in Mongolia. Due to mining and grazing, desertification occurs in Mongolia, and the sandstorms blow to China every year
감사합니다.
How and where can I read more about this method used here and types of plants used??
Probably start with researching *LOESS PLATEAU...*
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China wars against the sand but US wars against humanity.
Very true
Really? Didn't the US defeat the Imperialist Japanese that were brutalizing hundreds of millions of Chinese people?
And didn't the US lose a huge number of lives defending Korea against the communists? Who did the CCP support? That's right, the North Korean communists.
America also lost a lot of lives trying to prevent Vietnam being taken over by communists. And who did China support? The North Vietnamese communists.
Same as the chinese war against Humans too
@@BisayangdakoVlogzfeel sorry for my fellow Filipino’s so corrupt by the US.
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So many things to learn from China
According to Global Forest Watch, the total area of primary forest in China has declined by 4.4% from 2002 to 2020.
Whilst exports of more than half of all timber coming from all over the world are destined to China. The Country is largest importer of wood-based products in the world. So yes, like how to damage the planet.
@@PopularesVoxand you still believe the Western lies and their fake reports? Typical brainwashed people
@@PopularesVox And according to Google Earth and NASA, China and India are the biggest greeners of the world
literally just open google earth and look at historical data.
@@PopularesVoxfake news. In the past two decades, the forest coverage rate in China has increased from 18% to 24%, with a growth rate of over 30%.
@@ATNXK Tremendous damage has been done to China's native forests, so much so, that it would take decades to recover. The loss has been so great, that nearly one in five Chinese tree species are under threat. Replanting trees isn't an alternative if that planting was of only limited species. Much of the new forest planting is aimed at timber production for the domestic lumber market or stemming severe erosion, rather than restoring native woodland and protecting species. Published studies reveal, most reforestation efforts simply planted one tree species, making a plot of reforested land ecologically akin to a monoculture plantation. The main motive of course being profit, because such has been the relentless and uncaring supply of wood to satisfy in Chinese manufacturing, that it has been responsible for the clearance of huge tracts of native forest in Congo and Cameroon in central Africa, the Amazon basin and the islands of Indonesia,
parabens,muito bom trabalho
Amazing!!!!
the more concrete we pour the more we add to the problem
thats why I admire farmers for their strength and determination and lack of greed
It is not difficullt to be not greedy, when there is nothing to covet!
@@meilinchan7314 This is why trickle down economies/depending on the rich to pay for everything strategies dont work. When you give the rich/business tax breaks (even for charity), they will always find ways to save even pennies even at the cost of a lack of ethics. All these billionaires giving millions to charity get millions from tax breaks through those charities, so they end up even profiting at times! There are very very few billionaires who genuinely give money for the sake of supporting their country, people, and world and re very much the exception to the rule.
Incredible work. Simpley amazing
I think the word protecting Beijing is too politicized, and it is not only Beijing that is affected by the sandstorms, but also other northwestern provinces of China, which is a difficult task that can benefit future generations, and the Chinese people have made great efforts
How China fights climate change: Plant more trees and develop green energy.
How Western countries fight climate change: Ask China to do more while emmitting twice as much as China per capita.
Western activists fight for climate change to-do list:
- Block the main streets
- Crash into event or summit with protest poster
- VandaIise tourism objects and arts
- the list goes on.
Wrong :
Qatar has the highest per capita carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, at 35.6 metric tons per person.China emits 8.73 meteoric tons per person , USA emits 15.32 metric tons / Person .
@@g.m3399so？that's not an excuse for western countries
@@zoeea399Most Western countries emmits less than China, such as norway or sweden for example
@@TTT-yn2jl thats What i meant also per capita there are a Lot of Western countries WHO consume less. In West you Always consider americans france and so on. Countries such as rumania consume less. I hate the therm West. Its the Same Like East.
I would have liked to get to know how big the reclaimed area is in total in China and how sustainable it actually is, does the desert shrink or still expand?
still expanding, just slower. They reclaimed quite a big area straight north but the west side still getting worse
@@hc8714 oh, sorry to hear that
Have reclaimed the size of Belgium.
@Jacky-jz6uh That sounds like progress!
Gobi used to grow at 10,000 square kilometers per year at 1980-1990. at 2022 it managed to shrinked at pace of 2,000 square kilometers per year.
frequency of sandstorm is reduced to 1/5,
28 million hectare are reclaimed
shelterbelt which protect against desertification was slow and ardous
but naturalized protected forest area fare much better
so the overall result is still satisfactory
Some people whine and complain, while the Chinese simply put their heads down and work.
As long as China perseveres, eventually they will succeed. It may take 20, 30 or even 100 years but eventually they will find a way.
I am afraid that Uncle Sam can destroy it faster!
Unfortunately they are at the whims of the CCP, Which has ordered that trees and forests be cut and razed for farmland, no matter how poor or dumb the location is.
It's at least funny to watch some officials place dirt on a parking lot and stick plants in it to meet central government mandates of more farmland.
Crazy what you can do when your citizens have zero rights
@@nighthawk244 They have more rights than you.
@BSnicks fun fact: In China, if Officials inform residents ahead of time that they will be intentionally fluded, they are required to pay compensation. If they do not give them an advanced warning, then it will be considered a natural disaster, and no compensation is required.
Impossible to be possible... Great china🎉
That makes zero sense.
@@abundantharmony environmentalist spray paint everywhere, blocking streets makes sense
@@zhangburnham7226 Those are terrorists, not environmentalists.
@@abundantharmony
Great china
@@bluecalu7944 "Impossible to be possible. Great China." ffs
Very great work
I'm more interested on learning how people in the middle east/North Africa dealing with the sand. They are living their for generations, probably have better ways of fighting desertification.
They don't. They just live with it.
yearly sand storm went form 80 to 2-3 times
impressive effort, hope the work continues with favourable results
Handful of farmers with just shovel and few saplings are working everyday to change the fate of whole Beijing .
KUDOs!! TO THESE UNSUNG HEROES....
This is not just to change Beijing, this is to change your own home, change your next generation, change the whole earth, I feel sorry for your selfishness
Yet the whole Western world was cheering for the Greta girl. I said Western because she was very badly received in China because Chinese value actions a lot more than words.
In Chinese word, "beijing" is not just a city's name, and also can translate to north area. In this video , i think the correct meaning is the last one.
In fact, there is an error in the translation, and the person in the video is actually saying "beijiang", which means the northern border. In the Chinese dialect, this word sounds very similar to Beijing. As a Chinese, I am able to distinguish between the two words.
Of course, it is undeniable that this project has protected Beijing's environment while improving the natural environment of the northern border. That is why, even though Beijing is now no longer affected by sandstorms, the project is still continuing in the northern border of China. Because the people of the northern border also want to continue to improve their living environment.
Good progress
Damn ..!! There Plan For the Next 30 Years To Turn this whole Sand Area Into Forest or Jungle 😍
This kind of Long term Plans and Patient and hard working Needs This world Now a days to fight against the New Global Warming situations...
just paint it green google maps is so bad lately nobody will see it anyway
The only downside with this way of tree planting is its only function is to prevent the sandstorms from affecting China. A better way of planting forests is to incorporate more biodiversity and put more effort into the planning and planting to generate proper forests, but this is a much slower and more time consuming process. This is a great first step though!
You are right, this issue are awared after a couple yrs, now they plant more diverse plants and more evaluation are keep going.
Obviously, you're a guy who learned to walk before he could crawl.
@@lonelywolf159 Obviously your a guy who can never take criticism
@@randompersonontheinternet8790 Shh donttell them that. Apparently 30+ years later they are still learning to crawl.
Objectively what you brought up is a great point and there really isnt much that can be done other than having some actual barrier to stop spreading of desert. It's us vs the earth.
@@holysword876 If you think biodiversity hasn't been discussed, it's because you overestimate how fast we humans can figure out novel, provable methods. China is basically at the forefront along with Israel. Everything is hard earned and there is no biodiversity key we can just turn.
No wonder China are moving fast agains progres and number one economy in the world. This is planing in the good way. These people are tough !!!!!!!!!!!
respect for the farmer, I know it's hard
China needs to use the technique of planting in trenches, several advantages, greater proximity of the plant roots to moisture in the deep soil, plants remain in the shade while they are young, possibility of filling the bottom of the trenches with organic matter coming from other regions, protection against winds , highly mechanizable.
If it is necessary to produce small biodegradable panels made of organic material to support the trenches and protect against sand invasion, the organic panel would be 30cm+ inside the trench and 30cm+ outside as protection against windblown sand.
These panels could be made from straw, wood, leaves, etc. pressed and applied mechanically.
An alternative to trenches are biodegradable boxes for individual plants that allow you to maintain a hole in the sand where the plant remains deep and protected.
Thank you 😊😊😊😊
A new Great Wall, the green one now
I wonder why they take out the dead trees, since they also stabilize the ground in the long run and act as biomass for other things to grow there. Maybe because of possible fires?
I thought the world had to slow down on cement construction, because the world was running out of sand. But there’s tons!
Not all sand is suitable for cement, sadly. For example, Saudi Arabia has to buy sand from Australia for their concrete!
Wow this is awesome 👍🏻
you need worms, animal manure, animal carcasses, plant manure to fertilize the sand
9:06 should they take off the wrapping before bury it ?
just net to hold the root and some soil in place, will have zero effect on it growth
中国人民自古就非常坚韧。认准的事情就会想尽办法一直做下去。中国人非常不喜欢半途而废。这对中国人来说是表示你这个人不行的。🎉🎉❤
why not plant trees like date trees that thrive even without water? neem tree is also pretty common now in dubai. It's very versatile whether in the summer or winter
8:03
China has only temperate desert, not the tropical/subtropical desert of West Asia where neem tree and date palm can thrive.
They won't survive in the winter when the temperature gets below zero, in some extreme days the temperature can be below -20℃ or even less in regions close to Bejing.
another idiot who thinks he’s more clever than 1.4 billion Chinese people
In the interview, they are saying the Great Green Wall is here to "protect Bei Jiang" which means "Northern Borders", not "Beijing". Translation is not correct.
the bgm likes a horror movie，the ghost filter makes me unconfortable，good job
Hard Working,, Dedicated,, Ambitious,,Determined =Chinese ❤
Great news 😊😊😊
Lack of water. Natural rainfall variation. Area that dont get enough rain will become desert, like lybia.
Tree does not create rain. As soon as they stop watering those plants it will die...some might be already dead
There's a method of combining clay with water that can make tremendous improvement to the soil.
What? Nobody else did yet? Okay, "I don't like sand... it's coarse, rough, and it gets everywhere." Anakin Skywalker
Our ancestors fix water, now us and our children fix sand.
Its quite touching to see a army of civilians marching under the guidance of a red flag with a mission to save from desertification . Instead of carrying guns to kill people it is better to carry shovel and trees to save the country.
During the rule of Mao Zedong, almost all forests in China were cut down for the needs of primitive steel mills. The effects are felt to this day.
西方工业革命嘞😂
沙变土项目竟然没有在这里普及？
Deserts can be caused also by axial tilt on Earth. Sahara is the greatest example.
Maybe tell their government to stop draining all the ground water up.
Why did you not gather up all the sargassum seaweed 5000 square miles & plop it right there in the desert. Cover it up with wood chips & plant pioneer species as starter succession to more productive fruit & nut bearing species. Banana, coconut, fig, date palm trees, moringa etc. You can put up the air to water innovation coming out to irrigate the trees, shrubs, etc. Whatabout mushroom growth very important for soil health.
Why don't use some Ailanthus? Grows very fast.
They could literally sell the sand. Some places buy it up for beaches and other things.
and the obligatory plastic used for wrapping the roots gets straight into the ground. Plot twist: They succeed in containing the desert but the soil get toxic due to plastic contamination.
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15) Katherine's Journey to the East
14) Luca&Rachele
13) China traveller
12) Fermube
11) gweilo 60
10 ) Jerry Goode
9) Rafa Goes Around
8) Jerry take on china
7) Simply Rodah
6) Mr. Ma China adventure
5) Reporterfy Media
4) Because I'm Lizzy
3) Sabrina in China
2) For all lifes adventure
1) Jason Lightfoot
U should check little Chinese everywhere .
I'll add Blondie in China and Cyrus Janssen to that list.
Thank you for summarizing the UA-camrs who receive payment from the Chinese government for engaging in soft propaganda.
+10 social credit score
all are cringy money hungry humans
That’s cool, they should also leave the dead trees as they will recycle nutrients as they decompose.
Tetap semangat Mr Xi,💪💪💪
Already seen this reported on years ago. The issue I take with this is that there may possibly be a high attrition rate due to lack of ecological succession (the trees' roots may overheat or become exposed due to shifting soil), monoculture (meaning a single disease could adversely affect the entire grove), and agricultural overlap (goat herders and shepherds in the region may accidentally have their livestock eat the saplings). Wish there was a better way for these news companies to document their progress with concrete numbers.
You only got half of the story. The way the Chinese do it is by planting one particular plant just to secure top soil layer, once the plants root deep enough, they would plant other more type of trees/plants to sustain the sand storm attacks.
13 million trees since the 70s, the size of UK. That's not concrete? 😂
@@AverageGuy916 You're twisting what's been happening. They planted a monoculture of maladapted, fast-growing trees that all died. Only after learning that painful lesson did they pivot to using mixed plantation and that mistake cost them valuable decades of time. Also, there is no soil there that can be secured. It's all sand. The entire video is about blocking the wind from moving the sand around. You're just making things up, for some odd reason.
Ultimately, the solution must be built around capturing the maximum amount of water possible. But landscaping features can't be built as long as the wind keeps burying everything. So that has to be stabilized first.
@@tomsawyer4857 That's exactly the point. They run around with banners that serve no purpose (other than for propaganda videos 08:18), and parrade around big numbers. What you don't see are maps and statistics, i.e. hard data. How many hectares had to be abandoned, how many projects failed, how many projects are there, which ones are doing the best, etc. The only marginally useful information that is in this video is that they started in the 70s with monoculture poplar trees that all failed, causing them to have to start over from scratch, and the mention of tree survivability increasing from 55% to 80% by use of drip irrigation.
The image is so amazing at the time of 8:00 of the video
Arree woh jakawa mittereh before on continues lil lah
Only farmers are waiting everywhere for themselves and world. No one else seems to be keen
I was expecting an "at what cost?!"
@Slice what happened to your channel? Why when I click on it, it goes to some random music channel?
Nature almost always wins, but at least keep people busy and with a job that's important.
It may come as a surprise, but it was a Japanese agronomist, Masahide Toyama (December 14, 1906 - February 27, 2004), who scientifically and systematically initiated the "desert greening project in China. He left his family in Japan in 1972 and moved to China, using his personal fortune, to plant trees in the desert. However, the Chinese at that time did not understand the meaning of "greening of the desert," and the Chinese people obstructed him and treated him as a spy. However, he and the Japanese volunteers continued to plant trees, and in 1996, Jiang Zemin, then general secretary, erected a bronze statue of Toyama in recognition of his achievements in Engebei, Inner Mongolia, China
they are better off trucking in wet garbage and putting them over the soil.
There are many risks but they have to try. It is the human condition.
This is awesome
great
Beijing's dust storm comes from Mongolia
Desert to forest 1st is China, next is Africa. What about Australia and USA? Any commitment to desert countries to climate change? 😢
las Vegas is so nice!!
In the nature, always wins.
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It's not just climate change, agricultural practices like plowing, cause desertification as well. They need regenerative agriculture.
Good effort, but it's missing bio-diversity.
Economical in this context just means plastics instead of biological materials.
Clearly not a silver bullet
So how do you turn sand into dirt?
by making the soil retain more moisture
You can build a great wall that stops the sand.
wonderful
battling the sand and a week ago diverting the water to save Beijing UHU.......... forgot about that for a moment until I heard the mention of Beijing
I feel they are pissng in the wind.
When I working in iraq, I want more plants around our work area.but the temperature, the continues water supply makes it too hard.
are those modern day project houses in china?not bad tbh does this mean the desert is now ok to build infrastructure iknow we or they are overpopulated iguess theres no other option. butgood stuff , nice too see them actually create something