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广播听力:Technology helps reforestation efforts in Inner Mongolia

Source: CRI    2017-08-07  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

Work over the past 30 years has seen the creation of the world's largest artificial forest in the northernmost part Hebei near the province's border with Inner Mongolia.

The 'greening' of the Hunshan Desert is the result of 3 generations worth of reforestation efforts around 400-kilometers north of Beijing.

Li Xiaojing is one of those people who has been actively working to create the Saihanba Forest Farm.

"There are 480 million trees in the farm. If you were to arrange the trees at one-meter intervals, the total length would wrap around the earth at the equator 12-and-a-half times."

Saihanba used to be a hunting ground for the Kang Xi Emperor during th