Recently, however, a sad news came from Tongliao City, located in the east of Inner Mongolia: in the middle and late June of 2007, there were several consecutive rains, which basically eased the local drought. Some farmers and herdsmen raised their plowshares, reclaimed the desert grassland that had just recovered, and planted miscellaneous grains and beans. According to the introduction of local grassland law enforcement departments, the phenomenon of reclaiming grasslands is widespread in Kezuohou Banner, Kezuozhong Banner, Kailu County and Zhalute Banner, among which Kezuohou Banner is the most serious. They demanded that strong measures be taken to resolutely stop this unhealthy trend of indiscriminate reclamation of grasslands and effectively protect the hard-won achievements in grassland ecological construction in recent years. Local cadres and the masses said that Gadamer had fought side by side with Lord Zhang and Lord Dahl Khan, and vowed to defend the grassland to the death and last forever. It's a pity that his descendants destroyed their homes for immediate interests. According to the incomplete statistics of grassland supervision department in Tongliao City, since the summer, the whole city has reclaimed more than 2000 mu of grassland/kloc-0, and investigated more than 30 cases of destroying grass and growing grain/kloc-0. In recent years, the city has cultivated more than 65,438+10,000 mu of grassland (conservative figure), and the cultivated area reported by Kezuohou Banner the year before last alone reached more than 90,000 mu. Tongliao has a long history of destroying grass and growing grain. 1996, the leaders of the League Committee of Zhelimu League (now Tongliao City) put forward the slogan of "sealing the Tuozi, opening the Dianzi", but the Shatuozi was not sealed, but many good grasslands were opened. 1998, the reporter saw in Zhalute Banner that all the low-lying paddy fields were flooded, and the local herdsmen said it was God's revenge. Last year, the reporter saw the strange phenomenon of plowing grain while sealing the grassland. 1998 When the grassland area was surveyed, the statistics reported by the grassland supervision department were 43.46 million mu, but the relevant leaders instructed to change it to 30 million mu, and the other100000 mu was classified as "four wastes" to attract foreign investment as a sign of political achievements. Experts pointed out that the drought in Tongliao City for four consecutive years is closely related to climatic factors, excessive grassland reclamation, microclimate destruction and the decline of water conservation capacity.
According to some data, there are more than 48 million mu of sandy land in Horqin grassland (Horqin sandy land ranks first among the four major sandy lands in China, with a total area of/kloc-0.8 billion mu, spanning Inner Mongolia, Jilin and Liaoning provinces). Tongliao city is located in the abdomen of Horqin sandy land, accounting for 52% and 7% of the total sandy land area, accounting for more than 50% of the total area of Tongliao city, with a desert area of 6 million mu, and expanding outward at a speed of more than ten meters every year.