Where is the Mu Us Desert?

Mu Us Desert is located in the north of the Great Wall Line in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, so Yulin City is also called Camel City, which means desert city. The Mu Us Desert covers an area of about 42,200 square kilometers. There is more precipitation (250,400 mm), which is beneficial to plant growth. Originally, it was a relatively developed area of animal husbandry, with a large area of fixed and semi-fixed sand dunes. Since 1959, people have made great efforts to build windbreaks, divert water and sediment, and carry out a vast project to transform the desert.

By the beginning of 2 1 century, more than 6 million mu of sandy land had been treated, and the sand had stopped growing green. 80% of the Mu Us Desert has been treated, and soil and water are no longer lost. The annual sediment discharge of the Yellow River has decreased by 400 million tons.

Due to abundant rainfall, many sandy lands have now become woodland, grassland and fertile fields. In the hinterland of the desert, Yulin has also built 6.5438+0.6 million mu of farmland, and this "desert capital" of Yulin has become an "oasis of the desert". On April 22, 2020, Shaanxi Forestry Bureau announced that the desertification control rate in Yulin has reached 93.24%, which means that the Mu Us Desert will soon "disappear" from Shaanxi territory. ?

In the whole process of the formation of the Mu Us Desert, thousands of square kilometers of sandy land between Shenmu-Yulin-Wushenqi should be of "Xuansun" grade. In fact, until the early Qing dynasty, there were forests and grasslands here;

Today, there are still thousands-year-old natural cypress forests and Chinese pine forests in the northwest of Fugu County and Yangshita Township of Zhungeer Banner-they are the witness of the disappearance of dense forests in the eastern part of the Shaanxi-Mongolia border and the last line of defense for desert invasion to the south.

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