Source: CCTV.com
The average altitude is 4,200 meters, and it is connected to summer in winter and spring and autumn. The cold season lasts for seven or eight months. This is Yushu, Qinghai.
Yushu, the name is a tree, but the locals lamented: Planting a tree here is more difficult than raising a baby.
On the plateau, there is never a lack of faith in green.
From the 100-mile green corridor on National Highway 214 to the experimental base for the breeding of high-quality trees in Yushu, they never gave up for the green on the plateau.
Yushu Thousand-Acres of Forestry Breeding Experimental Base (Photo by Wang Xiaoying)
Yushu PrefectureDezhuo Beach, which was once used as a temporary office land for various party and government departments of Yushu Prefecture during the post-disaster reconstruction period and a resettlement for disaster victims, witnessing the reconstruction of new Yushu.
Now, this land has become an experimental base for the breeding of high-quality trees in Yushu, witnessing the feat of Yushu people laying green on the plateau.
Ang Jiang Dorjie, director of the Forestry Bureau of Yushu Prefecture, said: "Yushu's ecology is crucial, especially after the earthquake. We must use a good ecological environment to repay people's great love for Yushu."
In March 2015, Yushu Prefecture actively responded to the call proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping that "Qinghai's greatest value lies in ecology, the greatest potential lies in ecology, and the greatest responsibility lies in ecology", established the development concept of "green gratitude, ecological service to the country", adjusted the Dezhuotan Industrial Park into a forest breeding base, and accelerated the industrialization of Yushu's forest breeding varieties.
However, the altitude is high, the temperature difference is large, and the oxygen content is low. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to turn the wasteland into a seedling cultivation base.
Zhou Cuo, a staff member of the Forest Public Security Bureau of Yushu Forestry Bureau, recalled that from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., he changed soil, fertilized, planted, and irrigated... for the first time he did farm work, the first time he ate a big pot meal, and when he went back at night, he fell asleep. He worked like this for 45 days.
Planting Trees (Photo provided by Yushu Forestry Bureau)
Looking back now, Zhou Cuo said that when he planted trees, he was a little suspicious and was always worried that the tree would not survive.
Zhoucuo’s doubts come from two places. One is that the forest base is full of cement and sand and gravel, and there is very little soil, so how can the trees survive if they are planted; the other is that there is no experience in planting trees, and there is no precedent for large-scale tree planting here.
spruce species less than 20 cm. From a distance, they are almost invisible, but Zhoucuo underestimated their vitality.
"I go to see it almost every week, and after a period of time, I will find that it changes a lot." Zhou Cuo said that since 2016, the Yushu Prefecture Forestry System will have a "general mobilization" every year during the tree planting season: work hard for 45 to 60 days, and plant trees at the forest base.
Now, the concentrated and continuous area of this seedling experimental base has reached 1,200 mu, making it the highest altitude and the largest concentrated and continuous area in southern Qinghai.
"The spruce I planted at the time is less than 20 cm, but now it is almost 1 meter high." Zhou Cui has never done farm work in the past. Because of planting trees, his hands have been called out. It has not been completely eliminated yet, but the changes brought by this green are happening quietly. Zhou Cuo said that the wind is weaker and there are more insects. She hopes to tell her children in the future that her mother has also worked hard in that forest. After the experimental base for breeding of high-quality forest varieties in
thousand acres was completed, the first foreign tree species such as spruce in western Sichuan was introduced to experiment and cultivate tree species suitable for Yushu growth, enriching the species resources of Yushu, providing high-quality suitable tree species for the greening of the Yushu Plateau afforestation and . On the other hand, local tree species such as Tibetan willow are cultivated.
The base is a local tree species hidden willow on one side, and the other is a imported tree species spruce.
"The hidden willow trees are old and have few pests and diseases. Now, the main thing is to plant willows." Ang Jiang Dorje said that 400,000 hidden willows have been cultivated in the base, and after being cut into separate beds, the scale of 3 million can be formed.
Ang Jiang Dorje introduced the cultivation of Zangliu at the base. (Photo by Wang Xiaoying)
In fact, since the seedling cultivation in March 2016, the Yushu Plateau’s 1,000-acre forest seed breeding experimental base has provided high-quality suitable tree species for the afforestation and greening of Yushu urban areas, reducing the cost of seedlings and increasing the survival rate of seedlings. Today, the green area of Yushu is more than 96,000 mu, and 56,000 mu of green was planted in 2018 alone, exceeding the total of the previous two years.
From the completion of the experimental base for breeding high-quality forests on the Yushu Plateau to the construction of the 214 National Highway 100-mile green corridor, from the afforestation and greening of north and south mountains to the improvement of urban high-standard landscapes, from the increase of green around us to the afforestation of distant mountains, from the landscape around the Sanjiangyuan Monument to to the completion of the Yushu Forestry Plant Introduction Garden, from desertification control to returning farmland to forests, returning pasture to wetlands, from the implementation of the first and second phases of Sanjiangyuan to the construction of the Longbao National Nature Reserve, behind it is Yushu's efforts to protect the source of the Sanjiangyuan, protect the Chinese water tower, and continuously build a solid national ecological security barrier. (Reporter Wang Xiaoying)
