Can China's Great Green Wall Stop Its Deserts From Spreading? 

Will this Chinese master plan work?

I'm from China. A few years ago, I used Alipay's tree planting program to have my own small tree in northwest China.

This is not the only video on RU-vid about efforts in China to plant trees to improve the environment. I think people around the world should be supportive and try similar techniques around the world.

To critics of the work, I ask you to point out something done in any other part of the world of such magnitude... remembering: against the work done, no argument can be sustained... congratulations tô China and Chinese people... regards from Brasil... 😊

RESPECT to those people working in desert for decades.

I have 100% confidence in China' s potential in accomplishing and maintaining this initiative. China, India, and some in the USA are incredible accomplishments. These initiatives can help stop the mass extinction of bird species critical to the global health. Good for you China and all others involved in building these forests, marshlands, ponds, and lakes.

sand storms prevailed in 1990s, mostly in spring, but now we don't see it at all or just occasionally meet the dusty and sandy air once in a year in north china. environment improved a lot!

Trees are awesome. They provide shade, prevent erosion , and create wind breaks.

It is a very important initiative. It is also a learning process where successes and failures will happen. How many wars have been started due to poverty and fights for resources. I am glad China has chosen this peaceful path towards properity.

Great work, I am impressed by China their work on this front. Andrew Millison has made a great series on RU-vid on India's Water Revolution where India has been solving the water problems of over a 1000 villages by restoring ecosystem functions through top-down watershed management. It is nice that the countries with the most amount of people in the world are taking such active responsibility in regreening the landscapes and restoring the ecosystem functions.

China is really amazing. They really work as a nation for the nation.

I seen video talking about this project years ago, really sad to see most usa people only bashing at the idea, and stating about it disadvantages. This was during the time when usa put the covid blame on china entirely, and I have seen it effect, as a positive project like this are seen as bad due to political problem. All in all, I see this type of project as very positive, especially in the era of rapid gobalization with seen rise in CO2 emission. This sort of project is a maasive help to combat that as well. Not just to stop the desert spread.

I applaud the effort. This is amazing.

The few people in the comment section should really buy a mirror and think about how qualified you are to make strange comments without knowing the full picture. China plants more trees each year than the rest of the world combined and you can check this straight from Google Academics, and the only reason you don't know about it is because a lot of people don't want you to know, there are countless technologies and experiences about tree planting comes from it that can be extended to other Asia and Africa countries. While someone's hometown will only have a lot of "Greta" in private jets to attend the UN meeting, it is difficult for Chinese people to listen to some country with full house air conditioning and private jets and also not even be able to controlling forest fires to teach others how to "environmental protection"and "carbon emission" .Just like Taylor Swift wouldn't let me teach her how to sing.❤

Xi has a famous quote: green rivers and green mountains are our gold and silver treasures. Domething like that.

It's already successful and moving from strength to strength.

Do they plant fruit trees too, they would grow well with heat, wish I was fit healthy I would go an help plant trees! Keep up good work.😊❤

I believe these people know exactly how to manage these plantations. They will have learnt which species thrive and which don't. They obviously realise that maintenance after planting is top priority. Pity more countries don't have this work ethic.

I'm rather fond of how they're doing it in the Sahara, they're reshaping the sand to catch moisture. Then using several species of plants to help reinforce those structures. Then putting in trees. I see in China they're doing terracing, but they'll likely have to do something like what they're doing with the Sahara in the flatter parts of the Gobi.

Well done China

Shaun Overton bought a terrible piece of property in Texas, overgrazed by cattle again and again, and is trying to restore it. His latest effort is planting prickly pear cactus.

I hope all deserts will be planted green into forests and farms.

MUST BE SUCCESSFUL!!!

The US: China must stop planting trees and respect the rights of the desert. Lol

The more they work on it the more experience they get.

This project is just awesome! Rly rly awesome. This is what humanity has to do!!!!

While here in the pacific northwest. Our thousand year old three hundred foot tall trees are clear cut. All the plants and creatures of the old growth forest die or leave. The new forests that grow where the old growth was are not managed and burn so hot even the top soil burns leaving nothing but rock and brush. It won't be the way it was for thousands of years.

ฉันคนประเทศไทย ตอนนี้ร้อนมาก ฉันดูเพื่อจะปลูกต้นไม้สร้างป่า เพื่อความร่มรื่นชุ่นชื้น. ขอบคุณ ขอบคุณ

Grow cattle and camels and goats and sheep and chickens and ducks once the trees start growing. Use industrial boilers to produce millions of tons of steam to release into the air at nights to produce rain artificially. Build large lakes and grow fishes. Many things can be done to green the desert.

"i dream of gardens in the deserts"

3:39 for American viewers, that's a little less than 210 million football fields

Respect from Moscow!

As a nation it sounds like one of the most sensible efforts to improve man's natural environment. I am not a friend of the Chinese government , but this environmental effort is definitely commendable.

At least they are moving in the right direction

Better than not doing it

This is the simplest way to stop global warming!

Diversity of planting is paramount to success...They will learn this for best results...

Still looks like monocultures in that footage. Aforestation in New Zealand looks like planting pioneer species first and once they’ve established a canopy then less hardy plants characteristic of a climax ecosystem are introduced to boost biodiversity and natural regeneration

Better to do what they are doing then nothing. All farming on land require one very important thing. A healthy soil that is alive with micro organisms. Get that right and u can grow plants. Plenty get it wrong and destroy the soil over time, leading to all sorts of degradation issues.

The New Great Wall of China

My criticism is they are growing another "crop" all be it with significant carbon capture. As commented below (Mossy Earth), for increasing biodiversity you need to mix the species planted using local adapted species and creat a "forest". Even in a forest, there is a potential for harvest if that is one aim of the project.

before planting trees they should plant grass,shrubs and improve the microorganism rate. then plant tree i beleive.

China also has south north water project that bring water from southern China to northern China through newly built canal. I wonder if those water can be used for this greenwall project.

Nice thanks for sharing

Viajar pela china é lição de vida ❤

Respect for it

Wow! Great informative!

Mossy Earth reports that these monoculture forests did not do so well, because they planted monoculture trees from foreign shores instead of desert adapted species that are native. Those trees suck up water even more and were used for lumber, not let to rot into the soil and enrich it. Mossy Earth also reports that they have started to plant native species and that is working better. *Numbers of trees don't well as native trees, shrubs, insects and animal life that is adapted to the desert. Yeah, it is slower that way, but you can keep it.*

You hate or love china, is upto you, but china is putting in great efforts in terms of improving the environment. And we all must appreciate that 🙏

Yes building and cutting has to stop and help each other

They could go in there now and put 250 sq ft pockets if top soil every couple of miles and plant 10 or 15 other kinds of trees in pockets that can pollinate and eventually spread around as the rest of it builds enough fertility.

This is a very positive program, i hope china makes it

Kalo di Wakanda, proyeknya bikin sebanyak2nya hutan jadi kota

Yes! China is at higher latitudes and the moisture is sufficient for Green Cover, Drones do accelerate the process of Green Cover and getting the new varieties of Species that could be sampled out for Micropropagation at tremendous speeds in the geographical area increasing the Green Cover at faster rates that generates Employment and Tourism and the Agriculture Industry.

Look into the Mulloon Creek Project in Australia started by the genius Peter Andrews!

Grand work. Imagine something like this is USA.

I wonder if they've tried intermittent planting of original trees in pockets inside the decades old hardy trees? Certainly after a few decades many less hardy ones can now also grow?

So where does all the material to keep expanding come from? I know they bought some of our soil in Canada.

some time a strong government can united his ppl to do something magnificent for the world . i think ppl need to reassess the capital power that eroded the true purpose of a government.

Nice and promising! Great work! And for now: work on the human rights. (tell your boss!)

All these reforestation initiatives all over the world are great! The world's survival depends on their success, not economic profitability.

This is a beautiful project that began a while ago, the quality of leadership other nations breed. i still wish. ..african leaders could have been smart in decision making and wise leaders like the long ago leaders. I wish they could see that the west is flourishing and one of the reasons being africa minerals and other resources. i wish the leaders now could grow balls and back bones and start rebuilding Africa.

Нам тоже нужен Синь Дзынь Пинь! У нас есть Астрахань, Калмыкия, Ставрополье, Крым... Абрикос и акация хорошо растёт, как минимум, пчеловодам будет польза, нам мёд, зверям дом... Чё Наши закон не примут об обязательном ежегодном озеленении??! С каждого по дереву каждый год - не дорого. 10 лет - 1,5 млдр. деревьев - Астрахань зелёная.

涉及到中国，我看到部分国家的网民的无知和偏见

Good move by China. I think US must take a page out of China's book and do something similor.

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You "forgot" to talk about the green painting !

Tudo é um começo,depois água depois a floresta os bambus já é cem anos o que é cem anos para Cinco Mil anos ?;vocês são uns queridos são os mágicos verdadeiros magicos estudar a china e envolve lá num coração porque por favor esse povo não tem como dar atributos é muita história, história, história riqueza, pobreza ,derrota, divisão,união ,🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 redenção dos oprimidos 😢

It look good, if they dont do anything it is bad

This is very good, should be global effort

The system implemented in Senegal seem to be a most feasible.

China is promoting amazing transformations.

that kind of re greening the desert should follow in Africa and Australia so more land can become productive as agriculture , water retention and hopefully lower planet temperature

Yes it can stop desertification.. _-name coined back round 2000, when I first heard of it But as it is. It will take time. Money, water and care.

They are also channelling water from the South to the North...this will ease..the annual flooding problem of the central plain and provide water to the north...😮😅😊

meu respeito à China, demonstra que através do trabalho árduo e constante se obtem resultados

Just shows , we forget that we so often share more than we differ with other countries, different cultures and social systems. Which is better, global behemoths like Montanto whose eye is just on the bottom line, or what we perceive as Chinese restrictive communism who seemingly are doing great things for their people and the world with this exercise? Can the West collaborate effectively with China for global good , or will our system of needing an enemy to support the military and keep politicians powerful preclude that collaboration and deny the West answers to our own ecological problems . As Churchill said, Jaw-jaw is better than war-war so lets give talking a chance

1:00 that audio needs to be toned down. Scared the hell out of me.

Yes, all countries must do the same as china in controlling the desert expansions.

Penghijauan sangat penting untuk mengatasi pemanasan global. Gerakan menanam pohon harus dilakukan tiap keluarga

lumber prices going down..

The images were a bit random and misleading. For eksempel, are all the forest images, from this project?

Amazing.. let's hope they don't just use a single species of trees, high risk of disease spread.

Required in our country

Amazing china....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

prisoner cell should be placed in such area and they should have been used to create and maintain jungles

The problem of this project is that planting trees is not enough and a lot of them died. For it to survive, you need to planta forest which is a balance between different plants and animals. It s the same problem with our tree forest culture and our monocultural agriculture. Now they get it. Many countries in the worldare now greening what was 100 or 200 years ago beautiful forest. The shame is that humans don t get that they have to manage their own population too, not in the way China did, which was a big mistake tho.

The red dye is a give away that things are dodgy at best.

Buen que vueno eso para la naturaleza vendí siones

what about desert ecosystem and the dangerous of fires???

Whatever grows in that soil and creates the most biomass to start with. Then a crop and bind the soil and plant trees

Life creates water too.

So basicly the ba sing se wall is getting attcks from the sand benders????

No apple trees were planted wtf 😅

What percent of these planted trees survived ?

Finally china doing something decent

Yes.

It wasnt urbanization that led to the deserts. The deserts have been there for ages. Over grazing, logging were the causes.

Extremely reassuring!!!!!

Muhteşem.