In the depths of this "barren land" in Lop Nur, tens of thousands of square meters of green space are "long"?

Lop Nur is a famous "sea of death", "no man's land" and "drought pole" in the world, and it is a barren land unsuitable for human survival.

However, according to the report of Xinjiang Daily on June 17, in the hinterland of Lop Nur, it took researchers eight years to build nearly 20,000 square meters of green landscape, which brought green hope to the "life forbidden zone".

When Lop Nur is mentioned, people always think of Loulan. The ancient country of Loulan/kloc-disappeared mysteriously 0/700 years ago. 1900, Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin discovered the ruins of this ancient city.

The Loulan Beauty Xiaohe Princess unearthed here has attracted worldwide attention.

The reason for the disappearance of Loulan State is the global drought. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is uplifted, and the warm and humid air currents in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean are difficult to reach here, and the drought is getting worse. In addition, human beings destroy the ecological balance of nature, cut off water and over-cultivate. Eventually, the whole lake dried up.

Lop Nur has a hot climate, the highest temperature in summer is higher than 40 degrees, and there is only more than 30 millimeters of precipitation every year, but the evaporation is as high as more than 3000 millimeters.

The monsoon force is strong all year round here, and June-August is a windy season, which often causes sandstorms. When the wind blows, the flowing sand ridges and dunes roll forward, flying sand all over the sky, and the sky is dark. Lop Nur winds above 8 can last for more than 2 months, and the climate is extremely bad.

In the middle of last century, Lop Nur completely dried up.

After Lop Nur dried up, the surrounding ecological environment changed greatly. Almost all the herbs died, and so did Hu Yangshu, the defender of desertification control. With the continuous advancement of the desert, Lop Nur quickly merged with the vast Taklimakan desert, becoming a "sea of death" where nothing grows, which is described as "no birds in the sky, no grass on the ground, salt shells as obstacles, sand and stones flowing".

In the past two years, there have been news of the "resurrection" of Lop Nur on the Internet. Some people say that Lop Nur has a green lake.

In fact, in the process of extracting potassium salt, people extract and store a liquid called "brine". The natural environment of Lop Nur just meets the demand of brine storage, and the extracted brine finally flows to Lop Nur.

The "revival" of Lop Nur benefited from the high concentration and slow evaporation of brine, so Lop Nur gradually became a saltwater lake of about 200 square kilometers.

But how can such lakes and barren saline-alkali deserts have 20 thousand square meters of green space?

This green land is located in an enterprise factory (SDIC Luok Potassium) deep in Lop Nur. When it comes to enterprises, it is always easy to be associated with "modernization" and "destroying the environment". However, it is amazing that the researchers of this enterprise built 20,000 square meters of green space in eight years.

Today, this area has become a "paradise" in Lop Nur. There are 45 kinds of plants such as Elaeagnus angustifolia, Tamarix chinensis and Lycium barbarum in the green space, and even birds that can't be seen over Lop Nur come here to live. All this is due to the scientific researchers in our country, and it is precisely because of their unremitting efforts that today's bright green has emerged.

This work started several years ago and has improved the local ecological environment. In fact, this plan has also benefited the staff of the enterprise, improved their working and living environment, and also played a regulatory role in the local climate. After all, no one wants to get up every day and see the yellow sand all over the sky. Every day is a desolate scene.

After the start of the plan, the air quality has improved year by year, and the dust phenomenon has also decreased year by year. Similarly, this green space has also played a reference role in saline-alkali land treatment in extreme environment, which can be regarded as providing a positive sample.

The "potassium salt" mentioned above is also an important part of planting green space. It is precisely because Lop Nur contains such scarce mineral resources that it will attract relevant enterprises to develop here. Later, researchers came here to study and saw the "green space" now.

Although 20,000 square meters seems to be only a small area in the eyes of many people, it is the result of several years' efforts, and its practical significance cannot be understood simply by looking at the green area. At that time, looking at the Gobi with yellow sand all over the sky and the barren beach with thick saline-alkali layer, almost no one could imagine the appearance of plants growing on it, but all this became a reality.

The sea of death is pregnant with the green of life, which is gratifying and even more emotional. It enlightens us that to understand the dialectical relationship between man and nature, ignoring, plundering and destroying nature and violating the laws of nature can only bring revenge to mankind and leave a painful lesson in history; On the basis of respecting the laws of nature, rationally utilizing and transforming nature, human beings can reap the gifts of nature and live in harmony with nature.

Lop Nur was once crowded with people and lush water plants. However, due to excessive reclamation and other reasons, Lop Nur, a foggy lake, eventually turned into a salt marsh, and Loulan, which was once prosperous, could not escape the fate of being buried under flowing sand and became a masterpiece of history.

The dialectical relationship between man and nature and between man and society is the eternal theme of human society. Human beings produce, live and develop in the interaction with nature. A history of human civilization is a history of the relationship between man and nature.

Man and nature are the same life. Countless facts tell us that ecological prosperity leads to civilization prosperity and ecological decline leads to civilization decline. Now, Lop Nur is turning green, which shows that the understanding of this dialectical relationship is deepening in people's practice.

So far, researchers in Lop Nur have never stopped developing green space. Maybe in the future, it is possible to turn Lop Nur into an oasis. Let's wait and see. How many square meters of green space has been "grown" in the depths of this "barren land" in Lop Nur?