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Artificial Straw-checkerboard Barriers Turns Desert into Oasis in NW China

July 29, 2022  Xinhua  

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Over three generations, a major section of the Maowusu desert in northwest China has been transformed into a 42,000-hectare oasis. Check out how an almost unimaginable task was made possible.

 

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