China, Taklimakan Desert sees remarkable transformation after four decades

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The Taklimakan Desert, located in northwest China, has experienced an impressive transformation. After more than forty years of effort, China has successfully established a green belt stretching over 2,700 kilometers around the so-called "Sea of Death." Our correspondent Bruno Falci reports with more details.

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00:00And the Taklimakian Desert in northwest China has undergone a remarkable transformation.

00:05After more than four decades of work, the country has managed to close a green belt

00:09of more than 2,700 kilometers around the so-called Sea of Death.

00:14Our correspondent Bruno Falsi brings us all the details.

00:19Greetings, colleagues of Telesur.

00:22I am in the Chinese capital to inform you this time

00:25that satellite images confirm the success of the project that halted the advance

00:32covering more than 330,000 square kilometers

00:37is now surrounded by an ecological barrier of vegetation

00:43capable of resisting erosion and stabilizing the dunes.

00:48On the northern edge of the desert, the Eichmann Lake area

00:55was a source of sandstorms into a verdant ecosystem.

01:00Recycled water was used there to irrigate more than 30,000 hectares of ecological forest,

01:10increasing the forest cover from 4% to 45%

01:17and restoring more than 18% of the wetlands.

01:22Simultaneously, in the southeast of the Taklimakian Desert,

01:28thousands of trees were planted,

01:31where previously a desertified land.

01:36And in the far south, large solar energy projects and agricultural plantations

01:42are now helping to halt the advance of the sands,

01:47combining reforestation and energy transition.

01:52With this completion of the Green Belt by the end of 2024,

02:05China now managed to contain the expansion of the country's largest desert,

02:12climate, but also turn it into a global symbol of climate adaptation

02:18and sustainable resource management.

02:21With the news, we return to La Habana, Cuba.

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