@@skizmo1905 nope, this is a party prestige project, running away with any significant amount of funds gets you executed. Plus they've already planted significant amounts of trees, its been ongoing for several years now. Actual long term effects are still unclear, china's approach to making large changes to the ecology is closer to 'mess around and find out' than the 10 years of research and assessment before doing anything approach in the west.
@@nanonano2595 bruh, they've been at it since the 1970s lol, "actual long term effects are still unclear"??? See, this is the problem with china haters, they are brainwashed to see china decades ago, never wanting to see china today. Their re-desertification project is so successful it can be seen from space.
@@muffine5279 well it's more like a mini game. if you recycled some old stuff like sell second hand clothes, ipad, cars or recycle the bottle, you'll get some energy point. once reach 100% then they'll plant one.
This is not the only video on TH-cam 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.
But china has the worst pollution in the world . And uses green washing to hide the fact they are the world's largest emmiters + while other countires have been closing coal power stations china hasnt . Yes growing diverse species of plants is good but can we really trust china ?
@@snj123451mate, their emissions of GHG per capita is way lower than the US, they aren't going to let their people die to force them to not consume anything.
There are several even older videos about this topic on TH-cam, and there are projects like this in other areas around the world also. The largest other project has got to be in Sahel zone.
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... 😊
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.
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 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.
@@danguee1 Forests create ecosystems. Many areas in China are now populated by animal species that had been extinct there for over 50 years. Afforestation is a win for humans and a win for animals that need these ecosystems to survive.
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!
Not the last four years. Still a problem for tourists. Improving but long way to go. Chinese money is plowi g vast areas in Mongolia which us caysing soil to ve blown away
You can do both, initiatives like this are great, theyre small wins for the planet but if you continue to let other countries exploit your population for cheap products or continue to allow industries to destroy the enviromment youre going to get a bit of negative emotion.
@@BigScreenLife They make 90% of solar panels, 80% of wind turbines and 70% of batteries of the whole world. They're arguably the ONLY ones doing something for the climate. at least 4 times more than the rest of the world combined. But we should sanction them....
@@BigScreenLife We Chinese must develop industry, because we need to survive! At the same time, we must also transform the environment, because we need a better survival!
I have been to China a couple of times though only for short visits, but being there I could sense that Chinese people are very serious about their country. The development that I saw on the ground was just remarkable. Just to give an example, we were traveling through a highway-like road and the hundreds of trees all around that road were dead straight and of the same size. I attended the CANTON FAIR there, the place was gigantic, and on that day the fair's attendance was over 700,000 people from all around the world. China has grown from strength to strength over the past few decades and is the only country on this planet that has officially brought millions of its people out of poverty. Does the West have any such example? Instead of wasting money in useless wars, China is working for the betterment of its people and the West simply doesn't like it. I have no doubt that the next agricultural revolution will come out of China and China will become the source of providing food globally. I think it is time now that the West change its mindset and policies toward China and instead of trying to contain China, they should join China's efforts for the betterment of mankind and spread it across the globe, learn and share experiences, I swear this world could be a much better place then what it has now become. Simply put, China cannot be contained, no matter what.
China created a nightmare for our forests by making a monoculture that Asian longhorned beetles thrives in and they took the wood containing larvae of the beetle and shipped it over here in wood packing material. This was a terrible idea.
The answer strangely Yes. Alibaba actually subsidize one project to plant Orange, apple tree in one desert formed few hundreds years ago. the soil condition is not that bad, the project successful reversed it and now it is a national park full of trees, ponds and grassland.
@@aiguozeng9567 dude, theres footage of chinese painting their landscape green, so their country looks greener than it actually is. im not joking, they paint their country green, so on satellite pictures it looks like china is getting greener and more environmental. caught up with what? lies and deception?
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.
Just thought it would be a fun thing to share, when i was in primary school in China on national tree planting day the whole school would go out to places across the city to plant saplings. We would go out collectively in classes and be divided into small groups, all the parents are present too to teach all the kids how to plant saplings and help them in the process. After planting you can decide to leave a little name tag next to the tree telling you the person that planted it and the date planted, this way in the future you can find the tree that you had planted. We would often go back in groups out of our own interest to find the trees we planted and see how much it has grown! It is a significant part of my childhood and i hope more schools around the world can have this wonderful opportunity open to their young ones!😊
Great work, I am impressed by China their work on this front. Andrew Millison has made a great series on TH-cam 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.
@@eric2500 Yeah they explain it quite well in the videos what they have done. And show they start up high in the watershed to infiltrate water as high as possible so it runs through the soil and not over it so it doesn't cause erosion. Seems like a very solid and successful strategy.
@@SoteksChunkyProphet-dg7io Just look up watershed management, India, Water Revolution. A lot of knowledge is available for free these days for people with a desire to help others and live in more harmony within their landscapes.
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.
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.
We need more managed fires the eco system was designed to have fire . If its left for a long time it means lots of dead material stays on the ground which is fuel
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.❤
@@anzorpopov We are not forcing anyone to export their resources! You destroy your forests, it is your internal affairs! You are not qualified to use this to accuse China!
@@anzorpopov Let me complete it for you: the US and Russia and Japan are the leaders in exporting timber to China, and secondly these three countries have the right to decide whether or not to cut their own timber and to whom to sell it to. If you are trying to caricature China as "hypocritical", you are too poor to even know that many forests themselves are regularly planted and cut down to meet demand. It's China's fault for exporting fentanyl to be made into drugs by Americans and now it's also China's fault for buying what foreign countries are allowed to export. Interesting
@@anzorpopovAt the same time, the import of wood you mentioned is completely determined by market behavior (aka free marketing) You can't accuse China of being too communist while accusing China of being too capitalist. You'd better ask the United Fruit Company to stop enslaving farmers in South America together with gangsters. At least China paid enough money for importing foreign timber
@@anzorpopov Finally : Russia's forest reserves are 150 billion cubic meters, and annual exports are only 1 million cubic meters, which is really not much compare to the total
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 can tell from the video quite a variety of trees planted. This project has been there for more than 10 years, the side effect should be able to observe once there is any. Mossy earth somehow mixed several projects together, and analyze it for the de-desertification. There are areas, specifically in south China, companies rent the land, Hills and planted trees harvested for paper making, and lumber as you mentioned, but for those planted in desert is not allowed to cut down for any purpose. Alibaba, and other Tech Giant actually has a micro app to allow their users to choose which tree to plant, and users can monitor the growth online.
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.
"Build large lakes and grow fishes." Yep. That is already being done in the deserts of Xinjiang. Additional benefits are large-scale production of seafood in the desert, and the increased employment of the local population.
To improve environment and reduce CO2 , China spends lot lot of money (subsidies) to develop green technologies like solar electricity, wind electricity and electrical vehicles. Initially US and EU praised China for that and provide assistance and now all got banned by US under accusations of over production…now I even saw accusation about the 10 year no fishing project in Yangtze River. Anything good can be turned to attack China
is it? this doesn't seem simple at all, it seems like an extremely complex mass effort that even if the entirety of China's land was greenified wouldn't offset the carbon released by the coal power plants used to power the factories that enable the Chinese economy to preform the project. Stopping the growth of deserts is an admirable goal, but this will not stop global warming.
@@edwxx20001 Coal is not going away any time this century. The best we can do is promote sustainable green energy and the expansion/creation of forests and wetlands in areas that have been desertified or are at risk of desertification.
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.
you do understand that trees live longer than people right? and if its the first generation of trees thats at least gonna be like 50 years before they replant them with different trees
Problem is you’re talking about low biodiversity trees vs no trees. I have to assume they’re only able to plant desert-resistant trees anyway, and the proper biodiverse forests wouldn’t survive in these initially arid environments. Why not solve the problem first before introducing more biodiversity?
China don't have typical western mentality that I want to see result tomorrow. Just like the current generation of Chinese success was built on hard work and sacrifice of previous generation of hardworking Chinese. You can't reach the moon in one step. China has plenty other projects to reduce carbon emission and capture carbon. But stopping desertification is a already a positive step in saving existing farmland saving carbon capture.
While I kinda agree, I think the first step is plant trees that are able to survive then increase biodiversity later. Kinda like getting the desert sands to become able to support life.
Moving into cities doesn't lead to a desertification, but the process was finalizes when the private property left the countryside and other human activities like "unchecked grazing" + "unchecked hunting" and a deliberate extinction took place. These deserts are MAN MADE and thus, they can be solved by replanting and removing the human activity.
There's nothing China cannot do. Give them time. They are an ancient culture, great workers with a wide and wise ancient knowledges. I am confident they can. In the West we should learn from them instead of acting as a superior civilization and giving them lectures
I born in desert (shanaxi) but 20 years later it turn to fields， when i was a child ，the sky is always yellow，but now，the sky blue and groud green ，it's really crazy
So proud, we got Great Wall, Green Great Wall, Bullet train Great Wall etc mega project, wonders of this planet. We do act well than speak well in regards of nation society benefits. See what the democratic nations did in the past years, you know I mean the US.
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.
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.
Chinese government has to take care of 1.4 billion people. Can biden or trump do better. Without a strong government China will be like India, people will suffer. Your western view point does not work in reality.
no.. tree first, once tree planted then birds and bugs will come. tree litters will be foods for microorganism. bird will poop seed and create biodiversity. China did it right. But again, we dont know what will happen as this is not natural... if I am not mistaken sahara dessert was there to pump certain mineral to atmosphere and then send it via cloud, real cloud.. not your data cloud to Latin America Tropical Forest ( amazon, costa rica or whatever ).. I think it was phosphate from sahara to rainforest of latin america
"Trees" as spoken here include all species the Chinese scientists have tried and are trying! I don't get why so many commentors are so ignorantly conceited!!
@@goldriverbank6647 Not at all an expert. just a common sense. Just see the vacate land or deserted place during the rainy season. First there should be enough wet, then grass shows up and grows enough and dries up. wet, shady and organic content ( dried leaves) place is where micro organisim live. micro organism eat the dried up leaves and dies as its time comes will become compost. In a next rainy season the cycle is created and grass, shade and dried up matter and microbs and compost. if enough food it gives rise to shrubs. shrubs give way to small trees. it all depends on how much rainfall that area gets. if it is dryland with minimum rainfall and trees will be small and takes years to grow. and in heavy rainfall it grows fast. healty and big. my idea is to dig a pit deep of 3 feet square or round of 10 to 15 feet with 5 to 10 feet way from each other. sown a grass seeds and water it regularly or when rain comes pity will fill and will take care for water need for some days due to hallow pit. Grass grows and we will create micro organism atmosphere there. After we satisfied with grass covering plant small trees. grass will hold the water and will not allow water to dry. now we have created the environment to grow. we should not grow mono crop. we should grow multipal varieties of trees so it welcomes wild to it. birds, rats ,pigs deers etc and its predators. birds and pigs deer they eat and shit and will take the seed to far of places and makes a big self sustaining forest.
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.
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
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.
I'm glad he mentioned the problems with monoculture. Too many tree and plant restoration projects have resulted in major problems. Planting millions of the same tree in huge areas has resulted in forest fires (pine, spruce) which wiped out most of the efforts, as these trees are highly flammable, even in their green state. There are no barriers to fire spread with other kinds of trees. Another, as he pointed out, is pest infestation. Beetles and other insects can spread unfettered if all the trees are the same - they just move from tree to tree. Wildlife may not come to mono-planted areas due to lack of food. Animals come for nuts, fruits, seeds and other edibles. Certain trees don't provide much food source, so these planting areas can remain absolutely empty of wildlife. Other than timber, the control of erosion and the encouragement of rain, these monoculture plantings do not work with nature. Evergreens also discourage smaller plant growth due to acid needle drop. When there is no undercover of the forest floor, there is no spreading of seed of smaller plants to surrounding areas by the birds and other animals. These are sterile plantings and should be discouraged. Propagation of native plants in a wide variety should be the standard, unless it's just for lumber.
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.
BBC would say“This is infringing on the rights of trees. Planting them in such harsh conditions like the desert, did you get the trees' consent?This is damaging the desert's ecological environment."😅
The afforestation initiatives led by the Chinese government are remarkably impressive and successful. The Chinese people demonstrate exceptional intelligence, as evidenced by their historical achievements. Ancient Chinese civilization developed earlier and exhibited greater advancement in many aspects compared to Western civilization during the same period.
@@EmilyTheVillain Use force to plunder other people's wealth and enslave other countries, and then pretend to talk to you about freedom and democracy, deceive, plunder, and bomb. This is the accumulation of primitive wealth in the West and the culture of ocean robbers.
@@EmilyTheVillain Because for nearly 150 years in the last century, China was constantly invaded by Western countries. During the war, China could not develop its economy.
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Why? If you think we don't have enough trees... you should get out of your city apartment and try walking around the real America... its nice out here.
@@tyalikanky WTH, there are a tremendous amount of trees in the United States. We don't have a "Gobi" desert that is encroaching, not even in the Southwest.
@@besomewheredosomething You obviously don't have a gobi desert that is approaching, bc the gobi desert is in china as said in the videos. But yes, the deserts in the us are not really growing as of right now. The only problem is wildfires.
@@michikatsutsugikuni3098 No shit Sherlock, it’s a phrase stating we don’t have anything like the Gobi encroaching, even with the U.S. desert southwest taken into consideration. The wildfires actually help tree growth over the medium and long term.
I hope it works! I honestly respect china for being pragmatic and actually doing SOMETHING to lay the foundation of long term investment in green energy and fighting climate change.
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China memperbaiki bumi yang kita diami. Siapun dari Kita harus mendukungnya. Membeli produk china yang kita perlukan adalah amunisi untuk china untuk dapat melanjutkan memperbaiki bumi ini
The Chinese initiative is commendable. India has also started on similar lines . However communist China may reach their goals earlier than a democratic India
Will this Chinese master plan work?
No... offcourse not... they will make claims and then run away with the allocated funds and lie about it.
Pretty sure fruit trees need more water
@@skizmo1905 nope, this is a party prestige project, running away with any significant amount of funds gets you executed. Plus they've already planted significant amounts of trees, its been ongoing for several years now.
Actual long term effects are still unclear, china's approach to making large changes to the ecology is closer to 'mess around and find out' than the 10 years of research and assessment before doing anything approach in the west.
it is already a success lol, since the 70s, every failure is a step to success, and today their techniques have spread to all over africa.
@@nanonano2595 bruh, they've been at it since the 1970s lol, "actual long term effects are still unclear"??? See, this is the problem with china haters, they are brainwashed to see china decades ago, never wanting to see china today. Their re-desertification project is so successful it can be seen from space.
I'm from China. A few years ago, I used Alipay's tree planting program to have my own small tree in northwest China.
How much did it cost?
@@muffine5279 well it's more like a mini game. if you recycled some old stuff like sell second hand clothes, ipad, cars or recycle the bottle, you'll get some energy point. once reach 100% then they'll plant one.
stop eating dogs and cutting down Siberia and littering the planet with plastic...
@@muffine5279A game, no money, through the game to get trees, Alipay will go to the desert to plant.
@@muffine5279 The program called ‘Ant Forest’ is the biggest forest-building program in the world.
RESPECT to those people working in desert for decades.
respect
how dare you?
This is not the only video on TH-cam 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.
But china has the worst pollution in the world . And uses green washing to hide the fact they are the world's largest emmiters + while other countires have been closing coal power stations china hasnt . Yes growing diverse species of plants is good but can we really trust china ?
There is one in the Sahel
If only they weren't hell-bent on destroying the atmosphere, this wouldn't be a big problem.
@@snj123451mate, their emissions of GHG per capita is way lower than the US, they aren't going to let their people die to force them to not consume anything.
There are several even older videos about this topic on TH-cam, and there are projects like this in other areas around the world also. The largest other project has got to be in Sahel zone.
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... 😊
A similar project is going on in Africa. It´ s called "great" green wall
@@LichterLohe So... congratulations also to all people envolved in...
The one in Senegal seem to work very well. They do it in steps.
The Great Green Wall on the African continent seems to have a more sustainable method. They don't depend on external watering.@@CarpeDiem-ky1mv
@@jonasbarbosa4410 "I ask you to point out something done in any other part of the world of such magnitude" buddy you asked for it
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.
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.
There are almost no comments criticising. They're many saying that thete are lots if criticism.
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.
Can India control the growth of its garbage mountain?
Can the US control forest fires?
Don't compare us to them!
INDIA? What a joke
Well done China
Trees are awesome. They provide shade, prevent erosion , and create wind breaks.
That's a very human point of view. Not interested in ecosystems, biodiversity?
@@danguee1 deserts are not that great for bio diversity.
@@danguee1 Forests create ecosystems. Many areas in China are now populated by animal species that had been extinct there for over 50 years. Afforestation is a win for humans and a win for animals that need these ecosystems to survive.
@@danguee1 all of those thigns also benefit ecosystems.
I applaud the effort. This is amazing.
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!
Not the last four years.
Still a problem for tourists.
Improving but long way to go.
Chinese money is plowi g vast areas in Mongolia which us caysing soil to ve blown away
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 🙏
You can do both, initiatives like this are great, theyre small wins for the planet but if you continue to let other countries exploit your population for cheap products or continue to allow industries to destroy the enviromment youre going to get a bit of negative emotion.
@@BigScreenLife They make 90% of solar panels, 80% of wind turbines and 70% of batteries of the whole world. They're arguably the ONLY ones doing something for the climate. at least 4 times more than the rest of the world combined. But we should sanction them....
Many of these videos are propaganda.
There is some success un northern china. However there are destroying environments elsewhere.
@@BigScreenLife
We Chinese must develop industry, because we need to survive!
At the same time, we must also transform the environment, because we need a better survival!
They are planting trees but the rest of China environment is destroyed with all those factories and other things.
Any achievement Chinese make is disagreeable in the west main stream media.
西方媒体应该继续给自己的选民洗脑，西方会继续堕落，全世界都在看他们的笑话
Why?
@@Ben-qe8cxthey anti china
Never believe in west mainstream media 🤝🏻
just like how every achievement of Europeans is slandered. media is run by a tribe from the middle east
I have been to China a couple of times though only for short visits, but being there I could sense that Chinese people are very serious about their country. The development that I saw on the ground was just remarkable. Just to give an example, we were traveling through a highway-like road and the hundreds of trees all around that road were dead straight and of the same size. I attended the CANTON FAIR there, the place was gigantic, and on that day the fair's attendance was over 700,000 people from all around the world. China has grown from strength to strength over the past few decades and is the only country on this planet that has officially brought millions of its people out of poverty. Does the West have any such example? Instead of wasting money in useless wars, China is working for the betterment of its people and the West simply doesn't like it. I have no doubt that the next agricultural revolution will come out of China and China will become the source of providing food globally. I think it is time now that the West change its mindset and policies toward China and instead of trying to contain China, they should join China's efforts for the betterment of mankind and spread it across the globe, learn and share experiences, I swear this world could be a much better place then what it has now become. Simply put, China cannot be contained, no matter what.
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more just means more ✊🏿s, who outbreed any food supply no matter what
It's already successful and moving from strength to strength.
The US: China must stop planting trees and respect the rights of the desert. Lol
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deserts need democracy😆
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China created a nightmare for our forests by making a monoculture that Asian longhorned beetles thrives in and they took the wood containing larvae of the beetle and shipped it over here in wood packing material. This was a terrible idea.
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.😊❤
Do plantation in your own country
Fruit trees need water.LOTS.
The answer strangely Yes. Alibaba actually subsidize one project to plant Orange, apple tree in one desert formed few hundreds years ago. the soil condition is not that bad, the project successful reversed it and now it is a national park full of trees, ponds and grassland.
@@easylife7108 *Stop angry, share peace!* 🕊️
Like dates
MUST BE SUCCESSFUL!!!
China is really amazing. They really work as a nation for the nation.
like poisoning over 80% of their drinking water with industrial waste?
@@LLachs283people like you help me understand why westerns are being caught up lol
@@aiguozeng9567 dude, theres footage of chinese painting their landscape green, so their country looks greener than it actually is.
im not joking, they paint their country green, so on satellite pictures it looks like china is getting greener and more environmental.
caught up with what? lies and deception?
@@LLachs283 you are a big fool
@@LLachs283any proofs for that?
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.
you're delusional.
Israel did these kind of plantations in the fifties and sixties; the same magnitude comparable to it's size
Just thought it would be a fun thing to share, when i was in primary school in China on national tree planting day the whole school would go out to places across the city to plant saplings. We would go out collectively in classes and be divided into small groups, all the parents are present too to teach all the kids how to plant saplings and help them in the process. After planting you can decide to leave a little name tag next to the tree telling you the person that planted it and the date planted, this way in the future you can find the tree that you had planted. We would often go back in groups out of our own interest to find the trees we planted and see how much it has grown! It is a significant part of my childhood and i hope more schools around the world can have this wonderful opportunity open to their young ones!😊
Great work, I am impressed by China their work on this front.
Andrew Millison has made a great series on TH-cam 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.
Top down? How much do you trust that? I am suspicious until I know that they change and correct their mistakes as they go along.
@@eric2500 Yeah they explain it quite well in the videos what they have done. And show they start up high in the watershed to infiltrate water as high as possible so it runs through the soil and not over it so it doesn't cause erosion. Seems like a very solid and successful strategy.
@@eric2500 there are videos of them spray painting mountains green. It's all a front.
@@SoteksChunkyProphet-dg7io Just look up watershed management, India, Water Revolution. A lot of knowledge is available for free these days for people with a desire to help others and live in more harmony within their landscapes.
@@SoteksChunkyProphet-dg7io Relax with the insanity lol
The more they work on it the more experience they get.
3:39 for American viewers, that's a little less than 210 million football fields
😂
Ah yes football fields there official unit of measurement.
Actually, this happened at my home place. I planted trees every spring when I was in middle school.
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.
Actually the Sahara project was led by a veteran desert deforestation expert who tried it first in China!
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.
We need more managed fires the eco system was designed to have fire . If its left for a long time it means lots of dead material stays on the ground which is fuel
This project is just awesome! Rly rly awesome. This is what humanity has to do!!!!
The New Great Wall of China
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.❤
We see huge trains with timber traveling to China from Russia every day, and then beautiful videos of the President of China planting trees...
@@anzorpopov
We are not forcing anyone to export their resources!
You destroy your forests, it is your internal affairs!
You are not qualified to use this to accuse China!
@@anzorpopov Let me complete it for you: the US and Russia and Japan are the leaders in exporting timber to China, and secondly these three countries have the right to decide whether or not to cut their own timber and to whom to sell it to. If you are trying to caricature China as "hypocritical", you are too poor to even know that many forests themselves are regularly planted and cut down to meet demand. It's China's fault for exporting fentanyl to be made into drugs by Americans and now it's also China's fault for buying what foreign countries are allowed to export. Interesting
@@anzorpopovAt the same time, the import of wood you mentioned is completely determined by market behavior (aka free marketing) You can't accuse China of being too communist while accusing China of being too capitalist. You'd better ask the United Fruit Company to stop enslaving farmers in South America together with gangsters. At least China paid enough money for importing foreign timber
@@anzorpopov Finally : Russia's forest reserves are 150 billion cubic meters, and annual exports are only 1 million cubic meters, which is really not much compare to the total
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.*
It’s good everyone knows that channel !!!
They actually know more species and pros/cons.
Mossy Earth is awesome! They're doing such amazing work!
You think they are planting coconut trees there lol? The majority of the trees planted there is Populus, a native tree that can survive desert
you can tell from the video quite a variety of trees planted. This project has been there for more than 10 years, the side effect should be able to observe once there is any. Mossy earth somehow mixed several projects together, and analyze it for the de-desertification. There are areas, specifically in south China, companies rent the land, Hills and planted trees harvested for paper making, and lumber as you mentioned, but for those planted in desert is not allowed to cut down for any purpose.
Alibaba, and other Tech Giant actually has a micro app to allow their users to choose which tree to plant, and users can monitor the growth online.
Mistakes were made. Lessons were learned. And now more effective afforestation is being done.
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Their dictatorial government is the agressor, not the people.
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.
"Build large lakes and grow fishes."
Yep. That is already being done in the deserts of Xinjiang. Additional benefits are large-scale production of seafood in the desert, and the increased employment of the local population.
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Your title breaks Betteridge's Law of Headlines, because the answer is "YES!"
They have already recovered the Loess Plateau in the most amazing way!
Respect from Moscow!
China is an ancient country and will always find ways to adapt to the changes over time.
We should stop deforestation and start reforestation ❤
To improve environment and reduce CO2 , China spends lot lot of money (subsidies) to develop green technologies like solar electricity, wind electricity and electrical vehicles. Initially US and EU praised China for that and provide assistance and now all got banned by US under accusations of over production…now I even saw accusation about the 10 year no fishing project in Yangtze River. Anything good can be turned to attack China
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I hope all deserts will be planted green into forests and farms.
it can't be like that, we doing this to keep desert stay where they are not to replace them all, or it will change a lot the climate.
@@bowang4277 desert will kill us all if they get out of hand.
@@bowang4277 you crazy you won't the desert to spread a d melt the north and south poles amd flood and kill us all.
这里有些戈壁盐碱的，不能种着树木，只能灌水养海鱼
@@MeowCockadoodledoo desert can spread and kill humanity no need of desert.
This is the simplest way to stop global warming!
is it? this doesn't seem simple at all, it seems like an extremely complex mass effort that even if the entirety of China's land was greenified wouldn't offset the carbon released by the coal power plants used to power the factories that enable the Chinese economy to preform the project. Stopping the growth of deserts is an admirable goal, but this will not stop global warming.
@@edwxx20001 Coal is not going away any time this century. The best we can do is promote sustainable green energy and the expansion/creation of forests and wetlands in areas that have been desertified or are at risk of desertification.
@@thechloromancer33102050 年之前中国会有核聚变反应堆的发电站，完美的清洁能源不会远了。
"i dream of gardens in the deserts"
At least they are moving in the right direction
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.
you do understand that trees live longer than people right?
and if its the first generation of trees thats at least gonna be like 50 years before they replant them with different trees
Problem is you’re talking about low biodiversity trees vs no trees. I have to assume they’re only able to plant desert-resistant trees anyway, and the proper biodiverse forests wouldn’t survive in these initially arid environments.
Why not solve the problem first before introducing more biodiversity?
China don't have typical western mentality that I want to see result tomorrow. Just like the current generation of Chinese success was built on hard work and sacrifice of previous generation of hardworking Chinese. You can't reach the moon in one step. China has plenty other projects to reduce carbon emission and capture carbon. But stopping desertification
is a already a positive step in saving existing farmland saving carbon capture.
While I kinda agree, I think the first step is plant trees that are able to survive then increase biodiversity later. Kinda like getting the desert sands to become able to support life.
You can’t become fat by eating in one day
Moving into cities doesn't lead to a desertification, but the process was finalizes when the private property left the countryside and other human activities like "unchecked grazing" + "unchecked hunting" and a deliberate extinction took place.
These deserts are MAN MADE and thus, they can be solved by replanting and removing the human activity.
There's nothing China cannot do. Give them time. They are an ancient culture, great workers with a wide and wise ancient knowledges. I am confident they can. In the West we should learn from them instead of acting as a superior civilization and giving them lectures
I born in desert (shanaxi) but 20 years later it turn to fields， when i was a child ，the sky is always yellow，but now，the sky blue and groud green ，it's really crazy
This is a very positive program, i hope china makes it
So proud, we got Great Wall, Green Great Wall, Bullet train Great Wall etc mega project, wonders of this planet. We do act well than speak well in regards of nation society benefits. See what the democratic nations did in the past years, you know I mean the US.
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.
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.
Chinese government has to take care of 1.4 billion people. Can biden or trump do better. Without a strong government China will be like India, people will suffer. Your western view point does not work in reality.
China is promoting amazing transformations.
before planting trees they should plant grass,shrubs and improve the microorganism rate. then plant tree i beleive.
no.. tree first, once tree planted then birds and bugs will come.
tree litters will be foods for microorganism.
bird will poop seed and create biodiversity.
China did it right. But again, we dont know what will happen as this is not natural... if I am not mistaken sahara dessert was there to pump certain mineral to atmosphere and then send it via cloud, real cloud.. not your data cloud to Latin America Tropical Forest ( amazon, costa rica or whatever ).. I think it was phosphate from sahara to rainforest of latin america
"Trees" as spoken here include all species the Chinese scientists have tried and are trying! I don't get why so many commentors are so ignorantly conceited!!
Are you an expert?
@@goldriverbank6647 Not at all an expert. just a common sense. Just see the vacate land or deserted place during the rainy season. First there should be enough wet, then grass shows up and grows enough and dries up. wet, shady and organic content ( dried leaves) place is where micro organisim live. micro organism eat the dried up leaves and dies as its time comes will become compost. In a next rainy season the cycle is created and grass, shade and dried up matter and microbs and compost. if enough food it gives rise to shrubs. shrubs give way to small trees. it all depends on how much rainfall that area gets. if it is dryland with minimum rainfall and trees will be small and takes years to grow. and in heavy rainfall it grows fast. healty and big.
my idea is to dig a pit deep of 3 feet square or round of 10 to 15 feet with 5 to 10 feet way from each other. sown a grass seeds and water it regularly or when rain comes pity will fill and will take care for water need for some days due to hallow pit. Grass grows and we will create micro organism atmosphere there. After we satisfied with grass covering plant small trees. grass will hold the water and will not allow water to dry. now we have created the environment to grow. we should not grow mono crop. we should grow multipal varieties of trees so it welcomes wild to it. birds, rats ,pigs deers etc and its predators. birds and pigs deer they eat and shit and will take the seed to far of places and makes a big self sustaining forest.
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.
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
There are literally thousands of such projects going on in China at the moment. Most of them have long ago learned not to go with monoculture.
Respect for it
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.
应该不是一个项目，沙漠基本处在中国地势第二阶梯，遍布高原和山地，把水从四川调过去难于登天，长江下游基本都是平原丘陵，调水工程量小的多
不是，南水北调工程解决的北方生活用水，沙漠用水这个量太少了
@@xiaozhi. 如果能利用西藏高原的冰川水资源，绿化塔里木盆地那就太好了，面积上再造一个江南。
I'm glad he mentioned the problems with monoculture. Too many tree and plant restoration projects have resulted in major problems. Planting millions of the same tree in huge areas has resulted in forest fires (pine, spruce) which wiped out most of the efforts, as these trees are highly flammable, even in their green state. There are no barriers to fire spread with other kinds of trees. Another, as he pointed out, is pest infestation. Beetles and other insects can spread unfettered if all the trees are the same - they just move from tree to tree. Wildlife may not come to mono-planted areas due to lack of food. Animals come for nuts, fruits, seeds and other edibles. Certain trees don't provide much food source, so these planting areas can remain absolutely empty of wildlife. Other than timber, the control of erosion and the encouragement of rain, these monoculture plantings do not work with nature. Evergreens also discourage smaller plant growth due to acid needle drop. When there is no undercover of the forest floor, there is no spreading of seed of smaller plants to surrounding areas by the birds and other animals. These are sterile plantings and should be discouraged.
Propagation of native plants in a wide variety should be the standard, unless it's just for lumber.
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.
这些地区年降水不足200mm，谈不上湿润
The Chinese Ideology as there are so few Immigrants is.
The Work You do is for the Betterment of a Richer China!
涉及到中国，我看到部分国家的网民的无知和偏见
他们从小都接受的是中国的负面信息，负面的中国是他们思维方式的一部分。当有中国正面信息出现时，他们本能的反抗和讨厌
习惯就好。这些酸民宁愿看见世界更多沙漠，都不要看到中国绿化的成功。毕竟黄种人的成功颠覆了他们多年来的优越感。事实会证明一切。
说起来植树，我就想到之前热播的电视剧《最美的青春》，看了四五遍也不厌烦，把自己的青春奉献给了树木，一代一代的植树人，值得永远的尊重！
Massive undertaking. Well done China. Respect.
BBC would say“This is infringing on the rights of trees. Planting them in such harsh conditions like the desert, did you get the trees' consent?This is damaging the desert's ecological environment."😅
The BBC is bursting with jealousy.
Except the bbc does not say this.
@@petarjasic3161the pro Chinese commentators are very anti BBC.
Dies the Chinese government not approve
I think UN may also say like this 😁
The BBC is just not as clear as it says, but the BBC is making up fake news about China
That’s amazing. Forest of trees is much Bethany forest of solar panels
Communism plus socialism plus capitalism mindset has its advantages over full capitalism.
Nice
thanks for sharing
Yes building and cutting has to stop and help each other
Wow! Great informative!
The afforestation initiatives led by the Chinese government are remarkably impressive and successful. The Chinese people demonstrate exceptional intelligence, as evidenced by their historical achievements. Ancient Chinese civilization developed earlier and exhibited greater advancement in many aspects compared to Western civilization during the same period.
All these reforestation initiatives all over the world are great! The world's survival depends on their success, not economic profitability.
Europe: A girl is being interviewed. 💃
China: A farmer is planting a tree.🧑🌾
Then why europe is more advanced than china?
@@EmilyTheVillain If you really don't understand, it seems you need some real knowledge.
@@EmilyTheVillain Use force to plunder other people's wealth and enslave other countries, and then pretend to talk to you about freedom and democracy, deceive, plunder, and bomb. This is the accumulation of primitive wealth in the West and the culture of ocean robbers.
@@EmilyTheVillain Because for nearly 150 years in the last century, China was constantly invaded by Western countries. During the war, China could not develop its economy.
@@EmilyTheVillainBy booming other countries, colonnizing other countries and robbing money from other countries.
Yes, all countries must do the same as china in controlling the desert expansions.
China planting trees meanwhile amerika planting bomb
while China plants artificial islands in other countries’ territory 🤷♂️
And people in Pakistan are planting babies 😂
I wish my government was as caring for the environment.
We need this for Haity, please
But haiti mengakui taiwan😂😂😂
meu respeito à China, demonstra que através do trabalho árduo e constante se obtem resultados
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Grand work. Imagine something like this is USA.
Why? If you think we don't have enough trees... you should get out of your city apartment and try walking around the real America... its nice out here.
@@thebackyardbear not everywhere. USA even have places that would be much better with cactus thickets.
@@tyalikanky WTH, there are a tremendous amount of trees in the United States. We don't have a "Gobi" desert that is encroaching, not even in the Southwest.
@@besomewheredosomething You obviously don't have a gobi desert that is approaching, bc the gobi desert is in china as said in the videos. But yes, the deserts in the us are not really growing as of right now. The only problem is wildfires.
@@michikatsutsugikuni3098 No shit Sherlock, it’s a phrase stating we don’t have anything like the Gobi encroaching, even with the U.S. desert southwest taken into consideration. The wildfires actually help tree growth over the medium and long term.
Better than not doing it
Diversity of planting is paramount to success...They will learn this for best results...
Good move by China. I think US must take a page out of China's book and do something similor.
İt will be successful. Support from Azerbaijan
Nice monoculture lots 👌
❤the green great wall, well done China!
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I hope it works! I honestly respect china for being pragmatic and actually doing SOMETHING to lay the foundation of long term investment in green energy and fighting climate change.
Meanwhile the world’s rainforests are still disappearing, and Australia is still stripping its outback woodlands.
Viajar pela china é lição de vida ❤
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I hope! :) Amazing work
China memperbaiki bumi yang kita diami. Siapun dari Kita harus mendukungnya. Membeli produk china yang kita perlukan adalah amunisi untuk china untuk dapat melanjutkan memperbaiki bumi ini
Great initiative to reclaim land
Extremely reassuring!!!!!
1:00 that audio needs to be toned down. Scared the hell out of me.
The Chinese initiative is commendable. India has also started on similar lines . However communist China may reach their goals earlier than a democratic India
China government takes care of its people.India!?
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Irrigation is tricky. Large parts of California were irrigated many decades ago and the land ‘poisoned’ as a result.
that's because your politicians are lack of science knowledge