World Day for the Prevention of Desertification and Drought in China Theme: "Green Desert, Beautiful China"

June 20 is the 20th "World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought" established by the United Nations. This year China's theme is "Greening Deserts and Beautiful China."

According to statistics, the desertification area in the world has reached 36 million square kilometers, accounting for 1/4 of the land area of ​​the entire earth. At the same time, the trend of desertification is still widening and intensifying, with 135 million people at risk of displacement. In our country, the total area of ​​desertified land reaches 2,636,200 square kilometers, accounting for 27.4% of the total land area.

Desertification not only brings floating dust, sand and dusty weather, but also brings about poverty and social unrest. The Zhuzhong River basin, located in Bijie, Guizhou, is a river valley in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Over the past few centuries, due to over-cultivation by local peasants, the valley of more than 18,000 people in eight villages has been severely rocky and desertified. The infertile soil is swept away by rain and the pastoral garden becomes an exposed stone sea.

In order to reverse the trend of ecological deterioration in the Zhuzhong River Basin, local projects such as eco-husbandry, medicinal herbs, fruit trees and tea plants will be integrated with rocky desertification control to build a "green bank" for peasants and solve long-term livelihoods. Jiang Yun-ming, an early peasant who collected wild medicinal herbs from the mountains, relied on the local rock desertification control policy and after many years of hard work, became a well-known annual income of tens of thousands of poor families who could not afford to pay for their children's schooling Yuan's "Yao Wang" boss ...

Such as Zhuzhong River basin because of ecological management, the development of special industries to enable poor farmers to explore the rich, but a way Guizhou rocky desertification control, but also a microcosm of the desertification governance.

Our government has always attached great importance to the comprehensive management of desertification, invested a lot of money and manpower, and the ecological crisis in some areas has been effectively improved. After decades of tireless efforts by generations, the bare rocks were replaced by trees and the desert patches became oases. The head of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification said: "China is the world's most prominent country in implementing the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. It is a model for the world."

However, the situation facing desertification control in our country is still very serious.

The data show that there are still 31.1 million square kilometers of land in our country have a clear trend of desertification, desertified land in some areas is still expanding.

"To achieve a great development in preventing desertification and deteriorating, the key depends on the reform and the mode of innovation governance." According to Zhao Shu-pong, director of the State Forestry Administration, it is necessary to further promote the use of advanced technologies through deepening reform and further innovating mechanisms and further strengthening protection through sound systems. Optimize governance model. Explore different types of anti-desertification sand suitable technologies and modes of governance, the introduction, nurturing suitable for different types of sand area growth of resistant plant varieties.

The main causes of desertification are the destruction of human activities. Statistics show that desertification land formed by over-farming in our country accounts for 23.3%, overgrazing takes up 29.4%, over-firewood takes up 32.4%, water utilization is improper 8.6% and public transport construction 0.8%. In this regard, experts suggest that people should raise awareness of environmental protection, learn sand control knowledge, care about every inch of land, in order to jointly create a beautiful China to contribute. (Reporter Zheng Beiying Chen Chen)