Shi Guangyin is a model representative of desertification control and afforestation. He fought against the desert beach for more than 40 years, and built a green Great Wall with a length of 100 on the southern edge of the Mu Us Desert, which completely changed the harsh environment of "sand entering and sand retreating".

Combine sand control with getting rich, and create a new model of "company+farmers+base" to help people in sand areas get rid of poverty and get rich. Won the title of "National Model Worker" and "National Sand Control Hero".

Shi Guangyin's sand control deeds

When he was a captain at the age of 20, he led the masses into the great cause of desert management. 1984, with a sense of responsibility and firm confidence to lock up the yellow sand and uproot it, he resigned as the director of the township farm and moved his family to the sand area, becoming the first person in the country to contract sand control.

Over the past 37 years, Comrade Shi Guangyin has contracted 228,000 mu of barren hills and wasteland, managed 6.5438+0.95 million mu, planted more than 20 million trees (clumps), and built a green barrier of nearly 100 km on the southern edge of Mu Us sandy land, which has made great contributions to preventing the yellow sand from invading south and improving the local ecological environment.