‘Green Wall’ of Trees May Slow China Desert
The first section of a “great green wall” of trees and grass designed to halt the spread of desert in northern China has been completed, the official New China News Agency said Thursday.
More than 14.8 million acres have been planted in a green belt from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang to the northwestern region of Xinjiang, the report said. The project was begun in 1978 to hold back the Gobi and other deserts, which are still swallowing up more than 624 square miles a year.
An additional 14.8 million acres of trees, bushes and grass will be added to the wall by 1990, the agency said.
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