Is Tuke Town in Wushen Banner a desert? What is the environment like there?

During the spring equinox, the reporter went to Wushen Banner, Ordos City for interviews. Driving through the Fushen Highway from Fugu, Shanxi to Etuoke Banner, Ordos City, the most conspicuous and dense are the layers of trees and shrubs such as salix, poplar, caragana, and willow. Looking at the vibrant scenery in front of them, people can never imagine that this is the Mu Us Sandy Land.

In the No. 2 Community of Hulusu Village, Tuke Town, Wushen Banner, herdsman Li Jincai said happily: "Years of desertification control have given us a lot of benefits. Last year, we earned more than 6,000 yuan from selling salix alone. Now, There are still some Salix stubbles that have not been finished. Salix stubble is carried out in a three-year cycle. The average yield of Salix per acre is 0.14 yuan. It is not a problem to make 18,000 yuan per year.

In recent years, Wushen Banner has built an ecological forest with a reasonable mixture of trees, shrubs and grasses based on the actual situation of the Mu Us Sandy Land in accordance with the idea of ??"becoming green, becoming alive, and becoming rich". Through assistance and guidance, forestry engineering and technical personnel have gone deep into the grassroots to provide technical guidance, and strengthened practical technical training for afforestation. They have widely applied various new forestry technologies into production practice, improving the scientific and technological content of forestry construction and desertification control and afforestation by farmers and herdsmen. . At the same time, they focused on the development of forest and sand resources and the cultivation of forest and sand industry enterprises, and introduced new enterprises with high technological content and rapid resource conversion and value-added, promoting the transformation of traditional forestry into modern forestry.

“There are many forestry enterprises distributed throughout the town. There are 8 Salix slicing factories. Farmers and herdsmen can earn nearly 2,000 yuan per capita annually from selling Salix spp., with the highest household income reaching more than 10,000 yuan. Last year, the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in the town reached 7,000 yuan, and selling salix accounted for about a quarter of the total income. Tuke Town has a total area of ??2.273 million acres, with a vegetation coverage rate of 86%, of which nearly 2 million acres are natural pastures dominated by salix, poplar, and caragana. If poplar, caragana, etc. are processed into feed, then But a huge fortune. " said Yan Feishi, deputy mayor of Tuke Town, Wushen Banner.

While managing the desert and improving the ecological environment, Wushen Banner has also gained benefits from the desert. The entire flag has 4.75 million acres of existing Among the forest resources, there are nearly 4.2 million acres of shrubs, accounting for 88.5% of them, including 2.2 million acres of salix, 1.06 million acres of caragana, 400,000 acres of poplar, and 350,000 acres of natural sand cypress. There are 700,000 tons of Salix saplings available here, and 300,000 tons of Caragana and Caragana shrubs can be harvested. The annual income from the Seed Collection of Yangchai and Caragana shrubs is 8.76 million yuan, and the feed income is 20.44 million yuan; the sales are for The income from raw materials for industrial use of shrubs, mainly salix, is 50.82 million yuan; the income from dry willow wood production is 8.85 million yuan; the income from timber harvesting is 325,000 yuan; and the income from sandy land seedlings is 2.4 million yuan. In addition, the local area can also earn 2.4 million yuan from sandy land ephedra. , eco-tourism and other channels to obtain income. These projects have increased the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen across the banner by 1,370 yuan per year.

"I purchase more than 2,000 tons of salix a year, and most of them are sold to Yinchuan and Yijin. Particleboard factories in Jolo Banner and other places. Now the farmers and herdsmen here are rich, and the Salix forest has become their 'green bank'. When you are in urgent need of money, just chop some salix and the money will come. "Said Cheng Liming from the Shaliu Purchase Station in Tuke Town.

Bao Chongming, secretary of the Wushen Banner Committee, told reporters: "Afforestation and greening are the foundation of the flag, the foundation of survival, the foundation of development, and the foundation of revitalization. This is the most basic conclusion reached by Wushen Banner in its 50-year struggle to control desertification. When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the forest coverage rate of the entire flag was only 5%. Today, with the joint efforts of successive party committees, governments and people of all ethnic groups in the banner, the forest coverage rate has reached 28.75%. In the beginning, farmers and herdsmen afforestation only planted trees in front of and behind their houses and in farmland to prevent desertification. Now the farmers and herdsmen’s thinking has changed. They are thinking more about how to make money from planting trees to control desertification. Invest the money you earn in desertification control. The change from asking me to afforestation to I want to afforestation has put ecological construction on the path of a virtuous cycle. The significant improvement of the ecological environment has created good conditions and laid a solid foundation for the sustained, stable and rapid economic development of Wushen Banner. At the same time, the large-scale remediation of barren sand has greatly increased the income of farmers and herdsmen. Wushen Banner has not only become greener, but has also become richer. The income of farmers and herdsmen has increased from 230 yuan in 1982 to 5,443 yuan in 2006. . ”

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, Wushen Banner’s planned forest area reached 5.98 million acres, an increase of 1.23 million acres, and the forest coverage rate reached 30.8%. At the same time, they will also vigorously introduce and develop Forest and sand enterprises, which mainly focus on biomass power generation, artificial board production, and comprehensive feed processing, will further increase the development and construction of sand industries such as wild vegetables, sand raw medicinal materials, sea buckthorn, grapes, red dates, wolfberries, and eco-tourism, and comprehensively improve The conversion and value-adding of forest and sand resources will improve the economic benefits of forestry, stimulate and drive the rapid development of desertification control and afforestation in the entire banner, and realize the prosperity of green and wealth, and positive interaction. By the end of 2010, the entire banner will realize the sales of forest and sand raw materials, economic forestry, and seedling cultivation. The net income is 250.63 million yuan, and based on 60,000 people, the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen from the forest and sand industry reaches more than 4,000 yuan.

(Text/Fang Hong, Lin Yan, Yu Ronggang)

Source: Inner Mongolia Daily