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China’s anti-desertification campaign has greened over 90 million hectares and created tens of thousands of jobs but disrupted traditional Mongolian herding practices.
- China's decades-old Great Green Wall campaign aims to combat desertification by planting trees and vegetation across northern deserts, notably Inner Mongolia.
- The project was launched to curb desertification in northern arid regions driven by factors such as intensive agriculture, livestock grazing, mining activities, and climate change, although the impact of grazing may have been somewhat overstated.
- The campaign has restored over 90 million hectares, created tens of thousands of jobs, boosted incomes of local farmers and herders, and increased forest and pasture cover.
- President Xi Jinping committed to expanding forested areas as part of China’s efforts to achieve its climate targets, emphasizing the importance of preserving natural environments alongside economic development.
- However, restrictions on traditional grazing have displaced herders, disrupted sustainable land practices, and some Mongolians say the campaign mainly benefits the Chinese state and companies.
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China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ brings hope but also hardship
Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. Restrictions on traditional grazing are a key part of China's "Great Green Wall" campaign, a decades-old anti-desertification project credited with "greening" over 90 million hectares.
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China's 'Great Green Wall' brings hope but also hardship
Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project.
Ordos - Dorj, a Mongolian breeder, regrets the time when his animals were feeding freely in the huge steppes surrounding a desert of dunes in northern China. His herd, reduced to about 20 sheep, is now confined to a fenced lopine around his brick house. These lands are "too small," says the man of about 60 years in front of an abandoned yurt near the Kubuqi desert, in inner Mongolia. The ban on free grazing is one of the key measures of a coloss…
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