45 years on, China's Great Green Wall continues to grow

[@catonpillow]

Good job Сhina! The world is literally a greener place than it was 20 years ago and data from NASA satellites clearly shows that the source for much of this new foliage is none other but China. And, together with India's new farms, China's newly planted forestry account for one-third of the world greening. Indeed, China’s contribution to the global greening comes in large part (42%) from its programs to conserve and expand forests which were developed in an effort to reduce the effects of soil erosion, air pollution and climate change. China has planted more than 66 billion trees since 1978 and continue expanding on that program.

[@mig2720]

The planet need 1 trillion trees

[@acuantjahyadi7393]

​@@mig2720dan negaramu bagaimana ?? 😂😂 1 miliyar , 1 juta 😂😂

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

yeah so much greener with china being the world's number 1 polluter. people have no mental protection against propaganda it seems

[@Cmjunkiegotnoballs]

1k and done ✅ LoL ​@@acuantjahyadi7393

[@OwenWithAHammer]

wow, china replanted some of the trees they cut down, they're the best!

[@davidlazarus67]

China now needs to diversify the trees in those forests. This will create a more stable ecosystem. At the moment a single pathogen could destroy entire forests. Having different trees would also be very beneficial to wildlife, as they attract different species to those areas. For example randomly throughout the forest harvest a tree but leave a large share of its trunk as dead fall. These will attract certain species which can help the forest overall. Recreate a traditional old forest diversity. Allowing different trees to sprout which widens the numbers of species. This will also encourage plants below the gaps in the tree line. This creates more cover for other animals near the ground.

[@BenjiSun]

yes. now that the sand has been reclaimed and there's starting to be a buildup of topsoil, then it can be diversified with more species less tolerant to harsher conditions before.

[@kongwee1978]

Northern China is not Amazon.

[@raclark2730]

I do believe they are starting to do just that, and as a grower its understandable that there be a bit of trial and error involved. I am often a China critic but this is fantastic and something the " western sphere " should take note on. Maximum credit were credit is due from me. Better than a sea of turbines any day.

[@raclark2730]

@@BenjiSun Exactly build the frame work first and bio diversity can be improved over time.

[@沈澜天]

You are right. What you mention that diversifying the trees have been doing these years.

[@positivemindsets2225]

Marvelous solute to China

[@raclark2730]

Well done, and good to see faming and locals being included. ♥🌳👍

[@sislater6334]

Amazing achievement 👏

[@namelesswarrior4760]

Outstanding

[@johnchurch7892]

Beautiful Isn't amazing having the right attitude and inspiration to do such a good thing for the Planet. Well done Chinese people.

[@tirathfaldu]

Great job 👏👏👏👏

[@olowrohek9540]

Amazing 👏 well done We did in Poland from 20% till 30 % Forest last 70 years. Save the Forest please 🙏

[@jollyjokress3852]

You have to stop IKEA and other predator companies destroying your forests!

[@appa609]

I increasingly feel like China is the only country capable of doing anything big. This one project represents basically 90% of the reforestation in the world.

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

Anything big like being the worlds biggest polluter at the moment.

[@Cmjunkiegotnoballs]

​@@theowlfromduolingo7982i think it's India

[@yunshuiseng8]

Wake up, you are dreaming!

[@andresgarciacastro1783]

42%> good enougj for a single country though

[@MrJulez-mf7nd]

​@@theowlfromduolingo7982 they are like number 23 of the most polluting nations on earth per Capita, behind US (14th) and Canada. Not saying that's great or even good, but your argument lacks perspective.

[@p.dharmarao7087]

In the name of development, deforestation is done by many countries, but china is doing fentastic job to improve greenery and balancing eco system, mother earth will appreciate your efforts

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

What the Chinese state broadcaster does not mention is that the deserts are expanding by several thousand square km each year. And planting non native monocultures of trees might be bad or non ideal. Native shrubs and grasses would soak up less scarce water and survive better. Still, that they are tackling this is good, and hopefully it is beneficial in the long term.

[@AliAli-et7zy]

The same problem is relevant in most countries. China is the only one taking measures against it, even though they're not perfect

[@ediekimo9110]

At least they are doing something about it though

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

yes, this is just ccp propaganda

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

@@AliAli-et7zy That is untrue, several African countries are pushing back the deserts, and Mexico too.

[@chinthengfong1598]

​@@cagneybillingsley2165 if its propaganda, then what is your country contributed in this field?

[@wyldcardmusic]

This is great but the first thing I saw was that it was monocultural and not biodiverse. I know this method is a lot more efficient and economically sound but they could have crafted a much more healthy environment.

[@ex0duzz]

At the start if you plant different types, they are not resilient enough and will just die or be blown away by the wind and desert. Now that the variants that worked have survived and brought back moisture and wildlife etc, China has started diversifying and planting other varieties. You need to walk first before you can run. These results are from decades of research, experimention, failures, and hard work. China had tried all kinds of species but they died and waste of time and effort and money at the start. If it was so easy everyone living in desert would just plant any seed or species and make a rainforest from desert.

[@Ilovecruise]

It takes decade if not century to restore the biodiversity. At least they have restored the land so that it can retain water and in the future into proper forest.

[@halnelson5936]

​​@@ex0duzzwhat you asserting is not that sure sometime different species give them skills to benefit from each other capacities and abilities by the fungus network and miyawaki forests are a good example, and if you look in natural succession it's tend to diversity also in harsh conditions there are always few species adapted

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

⁠@@ex0duzzThat is not true. Planting non native trees can reduce water availability. They should have planted native species, shrubs and grasses that are adapted to survive.

[@andresgarciacastro1783]

When they started 45 years ago they did monocultur. Nowadays they are changing It. But don't let perfection get in the way of betterment.

[@jameshara8994]

China has been making great improvements in the ecological system! Unprecedented in the history of mankind!

[@Burvo1-s8h]

You should add quotations too that because that’s what they say and no body else is wrong.

[@RaymondLi604]

🌲 Great green growing walls of China 💚

[@KCECC-ActiveHealthyAgeing]

💪👏👍❤️ thank you for saving the future

[@florianwasimbu6699]

China has really show us they can rule the world better in all aspects. Congratulations Beijing

[@garudatransport3586]

Great Nation with great intentions❤🎉

[@uggali]

Needs enrichment planting. Absent species should be reintroduced over time as a canopy is created by the pioneer species. Species that support different animals throughout the seasons will enhance and speed up natural regeneration

[@ryanjuguilon213]

I feel like there is no need for that. Birds and animals would start to come and will bring the seeds to grow local non-desert plants. Let nature take its pace. The important thing is to stabilize the soil and create condition for the land to heal

[@daviddasilva6729]

Cette forêt magnifique ❤❤❤❤❤❤🤩🤩👍💪😍

[@guerillagardener2237]

I am impressed.

[@johannesmohner7823]

Einfach nur toll und großartig ❤❤❤😊😊

[@BirdAndGarden]

Super 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Keep going

[@Visiongamers7573]

China you are the great country in the world👍👍👍👍

[@tadhgcronin175]

This is a wonderful achievement.

[@MuhammadAyaz-lm4ho]

Excellent work.

[@RechtmanDon]

China, leading the way globally! 💖

[@amanwarsi8239]

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 🙏

[@leonpastis4663]

Why would you hate a peaceful country as China? Tell me.

[@violentfox]

@@leonpastis4663 you mean the terrible geopolitical predator that’s going to attack Taiwan? That built a military base in Yellow Sea to still its waters from Vietnam and the Philippines? The one that supplies Russia with chips to make missiles to attack Ukraine? Peaceful, right..

[@begula_real]

​@@leonpastis4663say that to those racist am_ricans

[@alihanaydogdu6158]

Be sure that these trees aren't fake or painted.

[@markthomasson5077]

Well I am sure all the random tree images are just that

[@n3g774]

Take your passport and go see for yourself.

[@VinyZikss]

Being from china, i have some suspicions as well

[@noahway13]

Those videos at the beginning--- of all the lush vegetation and rolling hills are definitely not in China. Show me on Google Maps where this is.

[@nd7908]

Same kind of tree is not a forest its tree forming .

[@独钓寒江独自愁]

Plant trees that are easy to survive first to prevent deterioration. Diversity is something to consider later. After all, you can't become fat in one bite. You need to take it step by step.

[@dominicwild3189]

During Mao's time 5% of the population were political prisoners and some of them worked on holding back the Gobi desert.

[@cosmic_963]

Hats off to the people of China!

[@markgreen4612]

Quite an achievement, China.

[@philiphoang2845]

The vietcong ( viet communist ) help China achieve this with labor , ressources and fund . This is solidarity between brother " lips exposed , teeth are cold " .

[@mathodalubaluba4110]

Nobody has real footage, everybody runs stock footage n generic data. Same content thousands of videos, no real data.

[@Shehr-e-Ashob]

China is great

[@raymasraymas]

What an excellent piece of PR machinery! Can you also report the roadsides that are painted green to make them look like plants are growing?

[@moorishwarrior341]

being stupid is incurable, may lord have mercy on you

[@raymasraymas]

@@moorishwarrior341 Thanks for your merciful message! It made me f@rt

[@xingchen19willwork]

what you said is the small amount of idiotic local farmers, not the government

[@violentfox]

@@xingchen19willwork right. The farmers have nothing else to do but be idiots 😂This is absolutely something done by the corrupt bureaucracy.

[@yalinahewage1941]

Well they are truths to both sides. They really do paint green 😂😂 but that doesn't mean everything the chinese ccp does is bad or lies. Ccp has done remarkable things actually to china and it helps with the autocratic nature of the state.

[@edgardanishh]

Its monocultures?

[@violentfox]

@witzemacher because it’s more of PR than anything else.

[@fvvf9569]

they r trying to save the planet not ur opinions🤣

[@chedderburg]

Well done

[@Gruffydom]

It’s not a forest it’s monoculture

[@fvvf9569]

they r trying to save the planet not ur opinions🤣

[@Vassilyev]

I proud of China. Now it's obvious that it is a great nation and country

[@brushcrawler8612]

Can't say if it good or not. It depends on what happened to all the villagers in those provinces. Were they forced into homelessness in big cities? Were they exterminated?

[@dinghaoroyhu7516]

Have you ever tested your IQ? They basicly turned no-man desert into greenland thus more habitable lands are created. Have you seen ppl harvest fruits in the video? I bet you didn't even finished watching it.

[@yunko9369]

How many people will live in desert like area?

[@brushcrawler8612]

@@yunko9369 A lot

[@yunko9369]

@@brushcrawler8612 Do you have the actual number of poeple? It is no good by just saying a lot as I can also say a few!

[@brushcrawler8612]

@@yunko9369 I have no way of knowing that number. You asked "how many people will live..." For that answer, you would have to ask every person in the world if they would or wouldn't live in a desert area. Millions and millions of people already do live in desert areas and millions and millions more "would" for various reasons. I personally wouldn't because I like winter and do not like hot and sunny weather.

[@annieq4049]

Well done!!!❤ China

[@dipeshthapa1040]

Suport china from nepal 🇳🇵🇨🇳🇨🇳💓🇨🇳🙏🙏🇨🇳💓

[@DMBall]

Very impressive.

[@ddm650]

Awesome China - turning barren land into forest

[@brushcrawler8612]

Farm land is not barren land 😂

[@JS-jh4cy]

Now its ready for firewood, paper and lumber

[@JS-jh4cy]

All same trees means same bug species will eat the whole forest, and nothing stops it

[@GTFO_0]

Beautiful

[@reflectingtrees]

Amazing china

[@lionelwong5842]

In doing so, it will create more suitable land space for Chinese people for livestock farming and agricultural production. Desert lands also are suitable for power generation from renewable sources such as solar and wind power generation.

[@halnelson5936]

It's Important to also restore everywhere in the world the hydrographic watersheds rivers and creeks patterns, continuum, ecosystems and wetlands to be the core of all the green and natural framework and networks around them

[@peterolekvint3214]

We have tried what the Chinese are doing in Denmark. And it went wrong. The Chinese are doing something that will end in a disaster. Among other things, there is a lack of soil animals. So the whole forest withers and burns.

[@simonr-vp4if]

That's not reforestation, that's a monoculture. If anything, it looks like managed forestry for timber.

[@balsarmy]

This is good, really

[@Black_Kakari]

It's a plantation, not a forest

[@fvvf9569]

they r trying to save the planet not ur opinions🤣

[@lloydchristmas1086]

But the US banned plastic forks. They said that will save the planet.😂

[@SaurabhKumar-uo2nh]

😂😂😂😂

[@Kumar-gd6du]

This is not forest , this is plantation

[@rochus_wagner]

👏BRAVO 👍China,,you great Chinese citizens, keep it up you hardworking and innovative people! ✌(the sick American politics wants to dictate to you, it's good that you don't listen to them, you lived happily in prosperity and safety, so on China!)

[@krisofamerica]

excellent

[@heleneallane6444]

Long live China with progress and improvements

[@mattpearson9905]

Monoculture deluxe in the forests.

[@timmyhexham9603]

Can you tell us how the yearly rainfall has changed? Well done 🇨🇳

[@BrihatGrg]

Does desert also have any role in ecosystem or not? Or its fine to convert desert into foresr!! Just Curious

[@MultiEnder1]

love, love, china!

[@cameronlewis1218]

Are those trees allowed to vote in free elections?

[@joec9553]

Or slave labor camps?

[@fvvf9569]

they r trying to save the planet not ur opinions🤣

[@yangyun4412]

stupid politics comments are everywhere.

[@Supernaut2000]

Fake news! Those trees all look identical, this is image altering at its best.

[@AmericanDrinker]

Troll

[@lamdao1242]

I’m glad they have trees. But they seem mainly to be mono cultures. Hopefully in time they will convert them to a more varied natural forest.

[@af8828]

i really hope the ecosystem scientists in china are given authority so they can expedite the succession of the plantings towards old-growth forests

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

God forbid they start planting monocultures of non native trees in old growth forests. That would destroy the ecosystems, creating serious ecological damage.

[@mbarker1958]

Not much gain in replacing a desert with a monoculture...

[@orcsbelgenetic]

The cow run ❤

[@ZebuAlpha]

China bhai jaan chaa gaye o aap!!! Earth is better when its green :)

[@MifazEM]

How did you do it? I will show you

[@HiddenAgendas]

thanks China

[@azamkhattak4136]

I think Monoculture plants doesn't benefit as much as proper forest do but never the less good job

[@andresgarciacastro1783]

They made a mistake 45 years ago. Currently they diversify by throwing a mix of Seeds with nutrients

[@DailioVibe]

Simply said, Mindblogging

[@BobHill-s2c]

It's better not to destroy the original forest in the first place, but, that'll do...

[@duelenigma7732]

Wow i love China!

[@entertainmentjoke2871]

Why Western media reporting this?

[@snicklefritzed]

Good thing it's a wooden wall and not an iron one.

[@M.sami12]

Give me one western country that have similar contribution to the enviornment. I'll wait.

[@ipeooc]

👍👍👍

[@wuliang1728]

For the most difficult part of reforestation, if the Gobi desert have around about 2 cm to 19 cm of rain water per year mostly during summer time, then will it be better solution to used a type of bacteria that create their miniature ecosystem ? These miniature ecosystem need little water. Studying how these bacteria transform the sand into harder soil could have a economical benefit, because transforming sand to hard soil is a benefiacial economic activity which is mostly free. Learn about how much ressrouce and time it take to transform the sand into hard soil. Once a large track of miniature ecosystem is thriving, export and import this miniature ecosystem to other part of the same sand region and let the bacteria do their work. Reduce the amount of salt on the land, then the miniature ecosystem will grow. When most of the sand is turn into hard soil, planting tree will be easier. Since bacterial ecosystem grow in a circle, it could be calculated on how much distance the planting hard soil shoud be put between them through the metric of time and water usage, I hope the project of reforestation will be a success.

[@vukpistinjat9196]

33 milion hectares🤯

[@ohurley11]

Show us the mountains painted green.

[@andresgarciacastro1783]

Man, you are eating fake news. So sad. It's not Paint, it's a mix of Seeds with nutrients. It's the new way of reforesting with mixed plants.

[@User775-wp8mf]

Save tree save life😢

[@ARCOFJUPITER]

Surreal....put them to work on big projects and this sort of thing happens.

[@kitchenpotsnpans]

I saw alot of fog? Doesn't this turn it into a swamp???

[@johanneskingma]

Did it work?

[@桃李醉春風]

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!

[@q0w1e2r3t4y5]

@@桃李醉春風 do you have a map of the reclaimed areas?

[@q0w1e2r3t4y5]

@@桃李醉春風 all i can find are fake maps where whole northern provinces are painted green which is obviously not informative.

[@violentfox]

Not really. The desert still expands extremely fast.

[@TheVenge.]

Nice AI video

[@MrAxXxisLive]

India!! Don't you dare look at it... India will definitely know its place from now on😅

[@MbisonBalrog]

Are there animals in it?

[@affadd8420]

ยินดีและภูมิใจกับประเทศจีน🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@M.sami12]

I wish africa can make a similar green wall against the sahara.

[@ashifabedin]

YOU WON SEE THIS IN INDIAN MIDEA

[@davidchou1675]

GO CHINA: Zhong-Guo, Jia Yu!!!

[@SautmarulituaSilalahi]

Xie... Xie...

[@victorschnubb1156]

Meanwhile outputting the most CO2 and pollution in world history.

[@fvvf9569]

they r trying to save the planet not ur opinions🤣

[@imbangperdana838]

Semoga berhasil China.. dengan adanya pepohonan akan mengubah lingkungan lebih mudah dihuni

[@AkterTraders]

Alhamdulillah

[@sheetalbhalerao8192]

Plant &grow different species 🌳 also tall spreading shadows