Encircling the Desert  

作　　者：LI FANGFANG 

机构地区：[1]Beijing Review

出　　处：《China Today》2025年第1期56-58,共3页今日中国（英文版）

摘　　要：FORTY years ago,driving through Hotan Prefecture in south Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region meant skirting the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert,China’s largest desert and the world’s second largest shifting desert.Back then,the solitary bus stations that emerged at intervals from the billowing dust were among the only sources of supplies,but they now have become a distant memory.A decades-long struggle between humans and nature is entering a new phase,as the last few challenging gaps have been filled in a green wall encircling the desert.This“wall”is basically a vast network of shelterbelts-areas of trees and shrubs planted to protect farmland from wind and soil erosion.

关 键 词：planted FARMLAND SOIL 

分 类 号：X171.4[环境科学与工程—环境科学]