Straw checkerboards - China's wisdom in taming desertification
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Desertification is a major problem concerning world development and the environment. It is also called the cancer of the Earth. In northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Baijitan used to be the "land of the dead" in the 1950s, when there were no birds in the sky and no grass on the land. Seventy years have passed since then and generations of forestry workers have built a solid green shield along the east side of the Yellow River preventing the desert from further advancing. The secret of their success lies in the straw checkerboards.
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And some people talk about colonizing Mars! 😂😂
There is so much environmental work needed on this planet! Congratulations for what you have done!
This has nothing to do with colonizing Mars whatsoever, other than the fact that Mars will need to take terraforming like this to extreme levels. It's not a zero sum game, we can spend all the time we want on preserving the earth and still get wiped out by a large asteroid next year.
Very nice technique. Love you from Algeria
China is afforesting its barren land and deserts, turning them gradually to grasslands, forests, and eventually a liveable place for both human beings and animals
Great job China 🇨🇳
@Soldat ᚦᚬᚩᛅᛄᚢᚠᚻᛈᛉᛋᛏᛒᛖᛗᛠᛢᛣᛥᚸ It was mainly grassland centuries ago, but due to overgrazing by farm animals and cutting down of trees for fire etc, it started the desertification.
Hopefully one day, even a forest will return and eventually more wildlife will return as well.
I recommended this channel for my English students in China. Very interesting story. I spent a year a long time ago teaching in the Mojave desert - I don't know of any efforts to do the straw patching there. If they did, I guarantee they would use ATVs and dirtbikes!
Mojave isnt man-made unlike this communist created desert.
This straw method is of dubious benefit. It would be better if it combined other techniques too, to ensure success.
There are all sorts of restoration efforts across the US to ethically restore habitat.
Check out Brad Lancaster's books on Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands. He talks about all sorts of methods to seep water into the ground instead of going across the surface.
Check out permaculture's Geoff Lawton and all the techniques he's employed. He has worked in Africa, the Middle East and Australia as well as other areas. He has great ideas. He has a tin of videos on YT.
Mark Shepard's farming methods could be adapted in China, too. By using better farming methods the Chinese could reduce the strain on their water supply.
He uses largely native trees, vines, shrubs and perennials plants as well as a grazing method that is easy on the lamdscape. The first few years it takes to get established requires some irrigation until plants are established but it's all to to produce food to good effect. He produces more nutrition and calories per acre than his neighbors.
His book Restoration Agriculture goes into critical detail.
Lastly, I recommend Permaculture Design Magazine. Granted some issues are more practical than others, so see if you can locate some issues in the library. It's a US publication and some of the articles are absolutely fascinating. They discuss many indigenous people's methods that are extremely clever and adaptable.
I highly recommend investigating them all.
@@b_uppy dubious benefit? FFS. They've been doing it for years and it's working, and they're working on adding bacteria to the sand to build-up available nutrients, among other things. But if it helps you buttress your self-worth to dismiss the hard work and extraordinary successes of a non-Western people (Americans "ethically restore habitat", while the Chinese "just don't get it", right?), that's nothing new. It's pathetic, but whatever: everyone else in the West is doing it anyway, as they see their supposed specialness crumble away.
Dear Mr Wu Mao, (@R.Y. )
The Gobi Desert is the fastest expanding desert in the world and that is an important indicator of the effectiveness of CCP strategy. A second indicator of this project's failure is the lack of a diversity of species to self-sustain. This video fails to provide the filmography showing the long term effectiveness of areas when they first started for a reason.
The CCP's monocropped plantation efforts labeled 'reforestation' failed as well, it lacked the ability to self sustain (their monocultured trees are dying) and failed to support the establishment of second-tier plants. If they had used pioneer-type trees they would likely have ht ad much more success. They did it for years and hailed it a success until it was too big to hide their failure. 'Doing it for years' merely signals lack of willingness to change by the CCP.
You are the one dissing their hard work *by your implication.* You buttress your failure by trying to turn it into an argument about my self-worth, as well as bringing in 'Western culture,'
For clarity I have previously lauded the CCP videos in their efforts on the Loess Plateau where they planted a diversity of flora, as well as terraformed the landscape to retain water. It is a great job that *does self sustain.
Citing 'work in bacteria' is nothing new, others have made huge breakthroughs that are well known, and is already big in the permaculture community
FYI permaculture, as well as the sources cited borrow from and acknowledge many traditions (including indigenous as I cited previously, and PS Geoff Lawton is Australian). Permaculture is 'open source' meaning it's available to everyone and encourages drawing off of effective strategies wherever they are found, instead of trying to sell propaganda, products. etc. The people I cited are honest about where the get their info from.
Through hard work and ingenuity Chinese people are bringing hope to the protection of the environment.
Genuine question... I'm sure China has enough renewable clean resources especially from wind and hydropower, yet apparently Coal plants are opened regularly in China? How is that looking after the environment?
Is that why China produces more greenhouse gases than all other developed countries COMBINED?
Most likely the hard work is done by enslaved people.
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@@RendererEP Do you know you are one of the source of co2 emission?
Thank you for your dedication to restore nature with beautiful green landscapes. Awesome
I joined the volunteers to plant the straw squares in Maowushu desert in NiXia province May 2018. Proud to be get involved in this great initiative. truly impressive!
This is genius yet so simple.
Could also be achieved using geofabrics and permaculture principles. Then you wouldn't need to use slave labour.
@@menoname3594 right. Making it sound simple and yet many nations isn't doing it. Taking is cheap
@@menoname3594 slave labor? You mean like…paid employees? How would your solution get around paying employees?
@@cloudmane4159 Use your human ingenuity to work out an answer to your own question.
8:31 When I saw the pink flower it brought a smile on to my face.
They are doing good work. This is for sure a on going project.
Keep it up. 👍✌
Just for everyone's information this method only works for man-made deserts where rain falls exist.
For natural deserts like the Taklamakan and the Sahara Desert with practically zero rainfalls the only way is to build a green wall around them to stop them from expanding. China is doing that too.
You didn't watch the video? Re-watch it again. It was dunes of shifting of pure shifting sand.
The freen wall in Africa is working in part because they are working at the edges and working in. Importantly many are planting diverse native plants and that helps increase the water's absorption into the soil.
China's tree planting efforts have been a failure because they essentially created monocropped tree plantations rather than forests. Fortunately they switched to this and it seems to work for them. The native plant diversity I key. It also helps attract wildlife, which are important to regreening, too.
And btw the Sahara was man-made too...
Yeah I follow Abby 😁 and she has a great channel. She is a Hui Muslim and studied abroad and is now back in China. She has some interesting episodes on the lives of Chinese Muslim's which is very different from that depicted in western media.
I am fro India and love the hardwork of Chinese people to change the nature of nature......
Great people.......m
from developing rice that grows in salt water, to reclaiming desert, to lifting people out of poverty. China's achievements are so many.
So many achievements to be ashamed of also.
"Lifting people out of poverty"
Please tell me you're joking.
China's desert covers more than 24%, transforming it into liveable land is amazing. Harsh nature is a blessing to humans, it teaches the Chinese to be hard workers, a true achievers with handwork and harmony. I must see it and learn it. However, some desert areas should preserve, manmade large lakes can slow the growth area of sand. Trees, plants, and animals will enjoy their new home. A smart project.
Developing man-made water retention ponds is a good idea. They're doing that in India to good effect.
May God bless China, for all the good work is doing for humanity
We dont believe god, we just believe ourselves. we are materialist.
@@jerryyoung639 Who is "we"?
China is a very multicultural country with a lot of believers in different religions. Buddhist, Muslim, Chiristian and some others.
@@user-gz7vv6uu7b Agreed
@@user-gz7vv6uu7b nah, it’s not. Chinese government doesn’t allow immigration and actively suppresses self expression and religion that doesn’t conform to the party standards. They tear down mosques in xinjiang and have party minders in all churches in china. Definitely no real religion but lots of pictures of mao and Xi jinping.
@@skrrskrr99 What does immigration have to do with it? China has over 50 minority groups, all with their own culture and some with their own religion. Even in this video, at 6:45 you can see that there are musllims at work.
The party minders in the church: true, confirmed. As a christian living in China, I have to say that this is annoying. About the tearing down of mosques, I can neither confirm nor deny this, I just simply don't know. It might have happened if there was extremism or separatism preached there, but it sure isn't a mass phenomenon.
China is presenting the world with miracles everyday.
it's not about miracle, china just keep the heads down and do stuff, making it happen; western world is more about who speak the loudest on the megaphone
@@justinlzy While doing exactly what you accuse others what you always done.
China caused this problem to begin with by chopping down all the trees without planting new trees.
Now they are forced to work 100 times hard to rectify simple mistakes.
Like covid19 🤣
Yeah including the covid19, what a miracle
The straw that broke the desert's back!
I am very proud of the Hui community and everyone else in the region. You are saving all of China with your efforts to block desertification.
Well, here in Brazil are doing the opposite with our Rainforests 😥
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Big money to be made by big logging companies and their share holders so they don't give a shit about the possibility of side effects on the environment
@@stephenhill8790 80% of amazon deforestation is made to produce soy to feed farmed animals around the world, logging industry does just a little part of that.
This is an achievement that no one has accomplished in other places. A great success I would say.
It's not so much about the 'wisdom' in this case. Just hard work. And China has plenty of both.
Also wisdom. They work attuned to the natural cycles of rainfall and rice planting and understanding of how deserts move. A stalk of rice plant is fully used. Low cost, low tech, job creation and highly effective.
smart guy
Hard work, yes. Unfortunately it stayed 30 years too long with a plan to plant monocropped tree plantations that are currently dying. Nobody contradicted the CCP's faulty plan. The Gobi is still expanding faster than they are repairing it currently, too.
Thank for a very interesting and informative report. Well done Abby, Ciao from California.
Really appreciate your hard work for the environment. So much changes. I wish more countries adapting this method. God bless China
Very happy knowing that this technology is helping lots of countries suffering from desertification.
It's low tech and efficient with a low carbon footprint.
感谢这些护林员们的辛勤付出。
Chinese soldiers bury seeds in their deserts, while some countries soldier bury depleted uranium bombs in other’s desert.
he's not soldier but a forest ranger and didn't carry any guns
@@gstarny not every heroes wear cape
They plant plantations. These aren't forests and some people are profiting at the expense of others.
Less than noble...
Well said
Sorry,because it is true, but out of context, they are each solving different problems!!!
China gives me hope for a beautiful future, I'm absolutely in awe. 🇨🇳🥇🐼🐉👍
Slave labor helps.
This is deeply admirable. Only the Chinese would seek such a solution.
Reforestation?
@@TheLifeOfKane Don't be smart. It takes a certain humility and resilience to enter into a desert wasteland and bring it to life.
@Sky Man No, they also plant seeds among the dry grass. The dry grass is only there to prevent the sand from blowing over.
Only genius china smart enough to take a Chinese desert and make it not a desert.
They are doing great work, but look around TH-cam and you'll see this being done in a few other places around the world the past 40 or 50 years. Pretty exciting stuff.
Thanks to their hard work for this miracle.
With lot's of admiration from northeast India 🌈👍
what an amazing project!! 3 generations of work!! WOW
I bet China will also build a machine to automate the system and then aim to do all desserts in China 🐉🐼🥇🇨🇳
yes, you are right. such machine already existed😁
th-cam.com/video/TkwihToUQyg/w-d-xo.html they have planting robot
good idea
This will only happen if the people rise up and obliterate the CCP.
This is absolutely amazing! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Keep up the good work.
Maybe China should invest more into irrigation system, more water diversion projects from south to north , more mechanisation of straw checkered board methods to speed up the afforestation programs in all these deserts in northern and northwest China.
I wish to see all these deserts transformed into verdant paradise.
@spade 1
Great to hear that 👍
Irrigation is what causes this often. They need to change what they grow and how they grow it. Investigate permaculture techniques, Geoff Lawton has great videos on the subject. Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard has revolutionary techniques for farming and Brad Lancaster's Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands are all sensible places to start in broadening and strengthening efforts.
Amazing video !! Thanks for sharing ;-)
Whoa. The city used to be 5km near the desert and now is 40km after 20 years. Great achievements
A less than twenty years. They finally recognized planting moncultures of trees was disastrous in the aughties...
Absolutely amazing!
This is a fantastic method to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
This is mostly realted to stopping and pushing back desertification though. When it comes to positive effect on carbon in air this does actually, despite it's size, not so much. You know the difference between wetlands with moss or rain forest, and lets says just a "regular" forest is huge. And even many forests are not that good in capturing carbon because they are not deversified enough. Trees alone doesn't make it a healty forest. Just stating this as it's easy to forget what actually makes a different to the carbon problem specifically.
You have been conned. Without carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and carbon in the ground there would be no life on earth!
@@menoname3594 I am talking about carbon neutrality, which means we human releases as much carbon dioxide as the vegetation absorbs! At the moment, we human releases much more carbon dioxide than the nature is able to absorb, which leads to global warming!
@@TubeMeisterJC Brainwashed by who. If you take the time to study proper science instead of propaganda based science you may wake up to the reality of what is going on around you.
@@menoname3594 you are either too young to see the climatic change for yourself or you don't understand science. I am old enough to see the climatic change for myself even without scientific understanding. Compared to the time when I was young, the winter becomes warmer and warmer! It's a scientific fact that carbon dioxide is able to store warmth, which means the more carbon dioxide we release without enough vegetation absorbing it, the warmer the earth becomes. Just like a house (comparable to earth) with window (comparable to vegetation absorbing carbon dioxide, thus reducing the heat) and heating (comparable to releasing carbon dioxide to store heat), the more you heat your house, the warmer you house becomes.
Thank you Abby and China for showing the desert improvement.
I always love China 🥰🥰
Lovely to see China making a difference to combat desertification. Would love to see the progress of China's attempts at coral farming.
Thre is hope while there are people like this . .
Imagine if we here in US could work this hard. The the old saying " One stick will break easy, many sticks come together is strong" here is what that meaning put into works. I wish here in California with the wildfire if we can have sheeps and cattles eat away all the dead grass, there will be less wildfire.
Totally understand by what you meant dude and I hope my country can be like China helping those in need and make a better place for their peoples but unfortunately I saw some are envy with what China has become today...
Trump tried to sweep the forests of foliage last year to prevent forest fires and was blocked at every turn by democrats of California, then look what happened, huge fires....weird
If you drive from LA to San Francisco along the coast (Highway 1), you'll see endless hills of grass, I always wondered why they don't try palnting trees in them.
Greening desserts is such a big step into the direction of positive climate action. Deeds not words, innit? 👏😊
The technique is brilliant and the results rather impressive for just 20 years.
Less than twenty.
Look at her face, how happy and proud she is about the feat that china gov had done. When u invest a lot not for instant profit but for the future generations, its means a lot, a humane contribution not selfish greedy purposes like in the w#$@.
You are just filled with anger, and not objective. At same time as countries do good, both in China and US, they also do bad things to nature. There is no reason to deny that both have damaged eco systems just like many others for ages and they still do. Even though China seem to invest a lot in renewable energy, they still suffer the reality that they still need to expand the coal energy sector. The investments are even more then the renewables. No opinion on it, just stating the facts. And I understand, it's not easy to replace the coal or other fussel fuel energy.
China is the world's Factory. While United States basically transfer most of its plants out to the under develop countries.
Still., China Carbon dioxide emissions are lesser than United States. Don't forget China has a population of 1.4 billions while US has only 3 millions.
United States has to do something fast about its environment, fast. Don't blame others, Look at yourself in the mirror. By the way, If you are ugly don't blame the mirror. 😂
@@lisa.e5776 You can't seriously compare the countries in that way, they are not the same when it comes to history and wealth. And just because you have a big population doesn't mean that the problems are lesser per capita. It's nonsense arguement.
@@wowJhil these chi-coms can't take constructive criticism of any kind.
They won't be happy unless you tell them china is perfect.
@@wowJhil Are you silly? Can't you see that the difference is due to the economic system in the countries? Are you sure that the western governments are worried about the poor or poverty in the country? Being nature/animal/human/environment friendly is just personal choice in western countries, it is government philosopy in China, can't you see that? I suggest you check what you have stated, you are the one fullfilled with prejudice!
China leads ✊🏾❤️
china casued this problem in the first place
China leads in deaths due to starvation, yes.
beautiful program with a great aspirations
well done China, I'm learning so much each day about how the Chinese are overcoming their difficulties with perseverance and ingenuity .
wow this is awesome
Lot of work and dedication. 💪🏻👍🏻
Wow! did not know that's possible! Only in China!
Beautiful work! More of these af-/reforestation stories from China please! ♥️
Amazing and hardworking China!
Great work my chinese brothers , World can learn alot from the determination and hard work of the chinese people. Pak-China friendship forever.
Wish them all the very best and an early resounding success in their intentions
Love to China from India
Resouceful and clever . . .
Good job 👍
Keep doing the great work. Congratulations!
Idea . Thinking , Planned work and Proper guidance . Never failed .
That is a wonderful project that is so needed all over the globe. Congratulations to China for leading the way forward.
This has its limitations. You need access to an appropriate type of straw. China has a lot of rice straw that works for this but this can be problematic in that it is soil protecting material taking away from other areas...
Italicized subtitles are less legible. Normal and bold are more readable.
To me, it's hard work and vision and commitment, not miracles.
I bet getting up off the cough to get a beer is hard for you too.
Would have been better if the subtitles were in a darker contrasting colour
I have the utmost respect and love for Forrest rangers such responsible and caring people
Wow more power to China. Keep up the good work.
Salute the great China from Bangladesh.
小姐姐如沙漠中的绿洲一般漂亮
谢谢 哈哈
Very clever
Thumbs up for sure Dear 👍
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@@itsAbby🤗 😜😜
Brilliant and amazing! Hard work is one thing and worthless if knowledge is not used. Success comes with hard work and having the knowledge to do what works. Placing the straw in a one-meter square grid and anchoring the straw in the sand is brilliant. Later placing hardy plants and seeds with nutrition and planting during the rainy season helps ensure success. Success comes with knowedge and hard work as demonstrated here. Truly brilliant and amazing!
Eye opening experience. Kudos to the generations of desert tamers that preserve in their tasks! Salute!
Keep this initiatives going. Well done for the great effort implemented. Very happy China could develop environmental sustainability.
Honestly, I Don't think its too difficult to stop desertification from ever spreading, its the Rising Sea Level am worried about which caused by Global Warming and planting trees will bear no fruit unless the world is committed enough to work together side by side to further decrease carbon emission and careless governmental activities which will further jeopardize our planet. The world needs Good-Hearted leaders who cares for the well-being of every living soul who dwell on earth without being jealous of each others achievement and success. Anyway the ambition and the hard work of the peoples of china is admirable.
Amazing dedicated people who do this and keeps going👍👏
Chinese always make me amazed by their hard work. Good luck 🤞
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I love this 😍😍😍 Great innovation, simple but effective! More countries should follow this great example! Especially in Africa and the Middle East!!!
They are employing their own low-tech techniques in Africa and it is working well.
The Middle East is uses both high- and low-tech and is hit and miss in their efforts. Part of the problem with their high tech efforts is its affordability, sustainability and effectiveness...
Excellent
I find the simple equation of utterly huge and seemingly endless challenge being met by human will and perseverance so inspiring when we see such results after so many years. All children should know this story because they can find inspiration and strength here that will last a life time
Such a beautiful idea.
Great
Keep up the good work for the next generation. Thumb up from me.
U.S. and E.U.: "Anything great is impossible. Everything is hopeless. All effort is pointless."
China: "The mind and hard work can achieve wonders."
Fxxking amazing. The people are not scientists but purely base on past experience and invent the magic to heal the earth
China a beacon of hope for well being of planet earth
Keep up the great work.
Sometimes the most elegant solution is the simplest one. Here i was thinking desalination and terraforming. Nice one China
i love china
i lik china
Our environment will deteriorate further - oceans will become more acidic, more desertification, glaciers melting, forests dying, species disappearing. Large arid regions will become completely uninhabitable. At a deeper level, you knew you would enter the world at a time of great change and upheaval. There is no uncertainty here. There is no controversy here.
Hello David, what's the source of your statements above? Thanks.
Thank you, David.
A simple method to hold back the desert.
I hope the whole world adopts this method! We can even maybe shrink the Sahara desert and the American-Mexican desert too!
Nobody can do what the Chinese can do.
Amazing this project will change and protect the world from violent events that created climate change ,this project is very vital in the survival of humanity. THANKS CHINA ONCE AGAIN YOU SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU MAINTAIN YOUR KNOWLEDGE AS THE ANCIENT AND OLDEST CIVILIZATION ,BY SHARING YOUR VITAL ACCOMPLISHMENT.
This is an appalling effort. When wrong (freedom of speech..), we criticize, and when doing the right thing, praise is needed too.
Nice video guys; really upbeat with good bgm. One problem though, it was hard to read the subtitles because of the font and the color.
Awesome would so enjoy visiting for myself ,if travel ever opens up
Kubota must be ecstatic with the advertisement on 3:25.
Fantastic, taming nature, the human way.
imagine if our govt stayed outta the way of people working together what we could accomplish. This is incredible.
Gracias por este hermoso documental.Lo entendí todo!!👏👏👏👏👏🤗🤗🤗🤗