China wants to promote its desert-taming expertise around the world
chugs across the desert outside Minqin, a town in the north-western province of Gansu. It is delivering water to a team of about 20 people planting saxaul—a squat, spiky tree native to the area—on the banks of towering dunes. The hope is that the vegetation will anchor the ground and help prevent sand from sweeping through Minqin during wind storms in spring. Without these efforts, says one of the planters, the oasis town could be “eaten by the sand”.
The work around Minqin is funded by the government and donors. Much of it is outsourced to the private sector. The workers planting trees there have been hired by a local businessman who says he has been in this kind of business for about six years. They start by creating a grid in the sand of straw-lined cells, each about one metre square. Saxaul saplings are planted in some of them. The grid helps stabilise the surface long enough for the trees, which are watered with a hose, to take root.
Researchers looking for the green wall tend to find far fewer trees than local governments report. Corruption may be one reason. Officials may have been overstating the planted area in order to impress their superiors or pocket funds allocated for tree planting. Another reason is high rates of failure. Only about 15% of the trees planted in the Three North Zone since 1949 have survived.
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