Fortunately, China realized this as early as half a century ago. After the founding of New China, sand control has become a top priority in China. Since then, there have been vast sand control people in China, who have rushed to the northwest to participate in sand control, and then under the call of famous companies, sand control has become a national movement. Therefore, after more than half a century's efforts, China has made outstanding achievements in sand control. At present, both the Kubuqi Desert and the Mu Us Desert have been managed, and the Mu Us Desert is about to "disappear" in Shaanxi, and it has also won a United Nations award. These are the achievements of China in sand control. In China's sand control achievements, there are not only the contributions of China people, but also the contributions of Japanese people. Because of a Japanese, China has a special desert, so it was managed. Do you know what is going on?
This desert is the Engebei Desert, the Dalat Banner section in the hinterland of Kubuqi Desert in Ordos City, and a part of Kubuqi Desert, 60 kilometers away from Baotou, with a total area of about 300,000 mu. Like most deserts, it used to be lush grasslands and flocks of cattle and sheep. Because of overgrazing and destruction, it gradually became a desert and eventually became a desert. But now this desert has been re-covered by green grass and has become a national-level ecological construction demonstration zone named by the State Environmental Protection Bureau, which is famous at home and abroad and full of legend. When it comes to the management of the Ngobei Desert, we must mention a Japanese, that is Toyama Seiichi.
Nguebe's governance can't be attributed to one person, but a Japanese professor, Seiichi Toyama, contributed a lot. Seiichi Toyama is a professor of Japanese agriculture department, president of Japan Desert Practice Association, and a famous sand control expert in Japan. 1935 studied in China, and then forged a junior college degree with China. 1972 After retiring, he began to study desert greening in China, and then continued to participate in sand control in China. 199 1 year, Toyama Seiko went to Joker Xue and settled in China. At that time, he was 84 years old, but he resolutely devoted himself to the sand control project in Ngambe. So during that time, locals can always see a man wearing a sun hat and carrying a sun hat.
In particular, Toyama Seiichi has a dream of a great world. He is concerned about the desert disaster in northwest China. After coming to Ngobei, he talked about working here every day 10 hours. Although he is very old, he is as agile as a young man. At his call, he launched the slogan "Japanese citizens save their lunch money every week and come to China to plant trees". Under his call, 7,300 Japanese volunteers really volunteered to come to Ngembe for greening. In the following 14 year, Japanese friend * * * planted more than 3 million trees, and * * * donated RMB 2 million to control desertification, with 65,400.
Until 2004, after Professor Yuanshan died of illness, Japanese volunteers kept coming to plant trees and finally went to Ngobeh to become an ecological demonstration area. Until now, their children are still joining the ranks of greening the desert in China. Now, although Professor Yuanshan is gone, his statue is still watching the life of Engebe. Such a lovely Japanese is really admirable, and I sincerely appreciate his contribution to China.