A Green Wall for a Great Desert  

出　　处：《ChinAfrica》2025年第1期54-55,共2页中国与非洲（英文版）

摘　　要：The Taklimakan Desert,China’s largest desert and the world’s second-largest shifting desert,is now fully encircled by a 3,046-km sand-blocking green belt.Located in northwest China,the desert spans 337,600 square km.Encircling the desert with a green belt was a monumental undertaking,taking more than 40 years to complete.Alongside this project,sand-based industries,such as the cultivation of cistanche and other crops,have been developed to raise local incomes.

关 键 词：DESERT CROPS GREAT 

分 类 号：X16[环境科学与工程—环境科学]