Do you know what a "sand hero" is?

More than ten years!

Decades!

They are all doing the same thing. ...

Defend the desert into an oasis

When the yellow sand is overwhelming,

Six Old People in Gulang County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province

Guo Chaoming, He Falin, Luo, Cheng Hai, Zhang Runyuan

Press the red fingerprint on the contract.

Barboucha collective forest farm is established in the form of household contract.

They agreed

Each of the six families must have a shovel catcher.

Can't break

Later generations took the shovel from their parents and led the masses.

Closing hillsides for afforestation is 370,000 mu, and 40 million trees are planted!

Ma and his wife took the initiative to contract more than 3,700 mu of sand in 2000.

At that time, this move became a joke of the villagers.

More than ten years have passed.

This sandy land is covered by more than 200 thousand trees

Wild flowers and weeds are distributed among them.

It's full of energy!

It is very difficult to plant trees in the sand.

Survival rate is not high.

But she persisted.

For more than 20 years

She has afforested more than 27,000 mu of sandy land.

Also led the villagers to get rich together.

There are many such stories.

This persistence and dedication continues. ...

Heroes of sand control, salute you!