The incredible story of the Loess Plateau also known as the Green wall of China 

this video is not to improve your mood, it has real practical implications, everyone who viewed it should have a responsibility to understand its lessons, share and distribute it.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João How can either, elimination of poverty or the growing numbers of billionaires "insult the Chinese"? It's proof that China has a free economy and a caring govt. Win win. Many scholars recognise China is both developed and developing. Its the speed of their achievements and their diligence that create this gap, not forgetting China has 1.4 billion people.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João world bank helped and we definitely appreciate that part But more help come from ccp orders, eg asked fujia to help ningxia

@Pedro Martins João if world bank is so great, give me a second example that is as success as ccp did. There are many deserts on earth. I am not playing game. Ccp is simply better than your government ( i dont even need to ask where you are from)

@Pedro Martins João Well, well, well. The tiny troll inside manage to squeeze out the bias, propaganda and fake name... too easily. A pity, I was almost given to think you have brain and a bit of ground. But what a spill out of crap, lies and utter trash, easily identifiable as a troll's bubble. For a start, cut dowyour excessive exaggerations and uncontrollable bile and hatred. You really pollute. You think you can put yourself on the same footing as the CCP? You're just a self- evident racist, trying to preach lies, hatred and bias. Sorry to find you here. Try to be good.

But the West thinks it is too smart to learn from the lowly Chinese. It would rather develop weapons of mass destruction to better and more efficiently eliminate mankind and steal other people's lands and resources. Sorry but that the truth.

Pride is a bad thing. Chinese are as proud as the rest of humans. what I mean is more and more people in the planet are conscious of ecological matters, and the misery in the world, and the injustice. Don't mix average people whith the powerful. They are not the same. Let's work for a better future all together!

Torsten Mandal Thank you!

Torsten Mandal, I saw the planting of the small tree seedling in a large well prepared hole in the ground during the video. I thought they really have faith in this little branch but it works. Where can I find your publication, i want to learn how to plant a large number of trees at a low cost to help the ecosystem. Thank you so much for your work !

thank you

Thank you!

I'm just a gardener in Georgia. I used to haul around trees to plant in huge heavy buckets of soil but learned, when I bought a lot of them from University of GA trained "Master Gardeners" volunteers, that they could be held in water barrels with just roots for up to a week while you dug holes to plant them in. I still had to loosen the soils back a good ways around the stem but did not have excavate the soils for the now non-existent bucket. It just needed to be well loosened, water and a banana peel or two for calcium, poured into the bottom and soil boot compressed around the trunk to hold the tree in place. Sometimes taller trees need three support cables to insure the wind does not topple them until the roots have grown for a while. This is about one third of the work I used to do to plant a tree. I could also haul home 20 or so trees in one sedan car rather than, at most, three. When they plant pine trees by the acre the planters just use's a pointed pole to make the hole, puts in the seedling and stomps the soils tight around the seedling. Three plant at the rate of one or two per minute. If 10% die, so what. This is not landscaping for beauty.

u kidding me china does so much to amend its wrongs now but with the donald where's america

Christopher Chen Uh that was a compliment

Bravo! you are absolutely correct. Congratulations. You are the hope of China

@Pedro Martins João f*ck off spammer

@@broquestwarsneeder7617 What do you mean by "democracy"? An empty word.

Yes - all countries should stop the fighting and land grabbing and start the rebuilding of the Earth

you're right! much can be done when US doesn't threaten other countries

Gee Just Cut the Chinese Communists Govts budget lol they are the ones that caused the devastation.

@@thatamerican3187 the devastation is happened over centuries, so how can it be the communist party fault?

@@harryjessen No it hasn't go read the History of the CCP and what it did to China between 1950 and 2021 . It is pretty horrifying. Just start with them creating the largest man made desert in the world by cutting down all the trees in Inner Mongolia. They also destroyed Tibet. same ideology driven bullshit.

Everyone should view this video, great work by the Chinese and others, hope for the planet!

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

Dream big? I guess you are joking. I dont know what the video has conveyed if not that this is the largest incomprehensibly huge undertaking which was highly successful.

@Pedro Martins João so what?

The lesson from this video is huge and should be spread to agricultural program in universities. It also should be used to fight against the big agro industries that destroy the land vegetation for gmo mono-culture. Devil companies like monsanto should be exterminated.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

The tv companies only interested in countries bombing each other yhey won,t wa t peacefull productive programmes like this ,sadly thats the way they are.

@Pedro Martins João the chinese put in 110% of all the hard work, and i,m wondering if they had enough food.or were supplied with enough food ee all k ow you can,t live off the veg growing in ur garden.

its not the animals, its the management of them that is the problem

Gustav. -- Fri. 10.28.2016. Thanks, yes somebody has to be taken care of the management.

How do sheep compare with goats in the regard you're sharing here?

deers destroy the plant world and all young trees too, left without a predator that feed on them and keep their numbers in check they will completely destroy an ecosystem over two or three human generations . This started to happen in the western usa in the 20th century after all the great predators (wolves, moutain lions, cougars, bears) have been hunted to extinction in most areas. But goats are especially resistant to drought they can litterally turn an already poor ecosystem into an arid desert of sand.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João -- Thank you for recommending the link. In another video about the loess plateau project, an official from the World Bank briefly appeared and mentioned that the Bank had funded the replanting of an area the size of Belgium.

well said

I wish he had organized his principles more clearly.

So now it's chinas resposnibility to change other countries cultures? As he said early in video "These people does not care for what is not theirs, they simple use it and let it degrade". Same thing is common in all these "poor countries", whilst "rich countries" have a history of the polar opposite.

the government of China could use the know-how that these Chinese people have aquired to lead similar erosion reversal program that bring this lesson to foreign lands. The people's future and the land restoration need to both equally important part of the program. The key is to link the restoration of the land to the people's interest and future, then it works.

lenomali lol I'm sure western propaganda machine will call that is China's environment colonial, this world is belong to western.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

kingshtcook You are, of course, correct. The decline of pollinators (especially bees) is catastrophic! As a retired person, I putter around my my garden daily but, have been reduceed to hand-pollination because the bees don't come. What is going to happen to large scale agriculture?

Plant flowers that are well known for attracting bees.

The blooming flowers and bountiful harvests of fruits shown in this video means only that bees must be everywhere, not wiped out as suggested by some. Do we sense envy and jealousy by those comments?

the population of bees has been declining, we know why, it's because of pesticides, we even know which pesticides. The criminals are companies like monsanto. Why are these companies not stopped immediately, because they produce fake publications, pay academics to lie about the effects of their biocide chemicals, they pay for lobby, they have paid legislators to make laws that can let them hide the list of chemical they use, that way scientists who defend nature cannot even do counter-expertise and expose the lies. they are simply evil as evil can get but the problem is the system and the laws have failed to terminate such enterprises because the society is a wild capitalism where profit trumps everything including the destruction of nature and the health of people and animals like bees.

Permaculture is outdated term and incomplete concept. NOw its sustainable farming and sustainable land use practices/managmeent, YOur focus on bees is rather strange. If no bees and other insects there would be no pollination/fertilization and no grass, flowers and other vegetation. We see plenty of the latter -- growing vibrantly in the video. SO pretty obvious there are no shortage of insects including bees

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

+kingshtcook thats because humans used to live on mars hahahaha

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

@Pedro Martins João Well at least the money is used for the project unlike other counties who received funding

@@kevinlaw6191 agree

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

Kevin Law it’s 35.673052 112.190464

@Pedro Martins João 2X Wow.

actually, scientific research in most countries is ridiculously low budget. increasing it would yield much more benefits. it's just the public perception that it's useless and a waste of money, while the reality is actually the opposite. if you feel different, you can always say no to modern medicine, tech, etc., but we both know that not going to happen. also, this project benefited from countless researches before it on the environment, ecosystems, water, etc., and they had to do their own research too, so your disdain for research is misplaced. it would be better to complain about military budgets, bad education/healthcare system, and lots of others, which eat up an infinitely greater amount of money than research.

True. A point for you regarding military budgets(with which I also don´t agree). I probably did not express myself adequately since I am certainly not against research as such nor do I disdain it so long as there is light after the tunnel. But what can be said about money spent on, for example, "discovering" that people who take a lot of selfies are narcissists? More than a nickel was spent on that. I think that I still must have that article somewhere and if I find it I would be glad to post it. And there are other such examples.

I see your point, but I kinda disagree. Research like that is built on other research, and is used by researches after it. it's like bricks in a castle, a brick by itself is useless, but is at least a bit important for the whole - you can remove a few, but if you remove too many (even less important bricks), a section of the castle will fall down. newer research stands on and makes use of older research (or parts of it), it also gives us a better understanding of the human mind. you never know what you might need later on, and this helps understand new cultural phenomenons, so it's probably interesting and useful to someone. another thing is that articles like this have probably some new graduate students working on them, and is a good training for future articles they will write - those will be more impactful and important. it's difficult to always think of and write 100% important research, sometimes it's hard to assess how important it is, so you just do it and move on. it's somewhat similar to how people want to remove non-basic math from schools because it's "useless", while in reality it's only useless for some people, and is a good brain training for everyone since you benefit from it even if you don't directly use it (better logic and thinking processes). in part, I understand and agree with you, but as you can see, it's not so simple. it is harder to get money for research on less important and obscure things, so in general everyone agrees with you, but the details on what to allow and fund is decided by the specific funds/government agencies/councils, so you should probably complain about them, not directly about the scientist that do them. there must be at least some importance to these kinds of research, otherwise the people that allow and fund them would not allow it - the researchers probably apply for funding grants to the institutions that support that kind of research and want to increase understanding in that area, they would get rejected by other funding sources. funding for new research projects gets rejected all the time, it's not like they are accepted willy-nilly. but it's probably true that more wealthy nations have more leeway for non-critical research. another thing is that people try to find their place, some are attracted by mainstream research, but some like to avoid it because there's already too much going on there and they will not have any impact, so they move to the sides, and then research like this happens.

Thank you for illustrating me. It´s always good to have a healthy debate.

@Pedro Martins João Certainly. I never thought that the Chinese were the ones who paid the bill.

India took Hinduism but little change in the societies if India. Todays, we saw bigger social gaps between the upper class and the lower class of India. Most Chinese people believe only in their hands and their works to fight the realities. They don't believe in propagandas and "God talk".

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

jim parsit ... So true !

Thought about the same thing haha.

I'm guessing they knew they were going to be on camera and therefore getting all fancy. even if it's when farming.

@Sc Py: those are not suits. They are traditional Zhongshan suits. Farmers wear them all the time, evening when farming.

For most of them, they have but only one outfit

This is normal. They didn't know we would be filming.

Corruption? Or perhaps just poor.

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

So what you actually want to say?

@Pedro Martins João Thank you for the valuable information! Here is the original text: “First Loess Plateau project: out of US$252 million (actual project costs), IDA contributed US$149 million; government/counterpart funding US$103 million. Second Loess Plateau project: IDA contributed US$50 million; IBRD US$99 million; and government/counterpart funding US$90 million. (China was still eligible for credits from the International Development Association, the World Bank’s fund for low-income countries, when the projects were approved.)” I am also glad that China is now able to make contribution back to the IDA. ida.worldbank.org/about/contributor-countries That is how countries should work together to make our world become a better place.

Mu Us Desert and Kubuqi Desert and some of other places, such as 榔头沟 ( I don't know the English name) in Mainland China.

TheLawIsForTheRich Truth. The project has been done with international collaboration. But pollution in the US is incomparable to China. 16 of the worlds most polluted 20 cities are in China.

Nic Phan. Keep your pants on and chill. Trump has only been in power for a year. He’s done a lot of talking, threatening, tweeting but he has mainly been governing by presidential orders and not by congress. We still have to see what he’s capable of. But as long as China doubles the US CO2 emission, let’s not compare....

@@kajakkille The real problem is human population and consumption. Someone has to produce the consumables for human population and pollutes in the process. If China did not do it, some other countries would. To reduce unnecessary consumption and to reduce human population are the only ways.