It is said that Chinese the hobby of "farming" is engraved in the genes, and when I heard that the lunar soil does not contain any organic nutrients and therefore cannot grow vegetables, many Chinese people directly call "it is a pity that the land", which is really hilarious.
The flowerpots on the balcony and the open space in the courtyard can become a place to Chinese plant things, but there is really no place to exert this enthusiasm, and the planting land can be transferred to the line.
In August 2016, the "Ant Forest" was officially launched in the Alipay public welfare sector, and since then, online tree planting has become an indispensable part of many people's lives.
Of course, Ma Yun originally launched the ant forest tree planting function, not entirely to take care of the national hobby of farming, this project was originally launched as a public welfare project that the whole people can participate in, planting trees well, users can get rewards, specifically:
After the virtual tree grows, Alipay Ant Forest and public welfare partners will plant a real tree on the earth or guard the corresponding area of protected land. After successfully planting a tree on the phone, the user receives an "environmental certificate".
Obviously, this is to cultivate and motivate people's low-carbon environmental protection behavior, both interesting and practical, so the ant forest has been able to grow red to this day.
One
How many people walk an extra kilometer a day at the beginning of the ant forest, just to be able to change more energy to water their saplings the next day; how many people set an alarm clock in the middle of the night and get up early in the morning, just to "steal" two drops of energy in a friend's home.
It can be seen that in the matter of planting trees, Ma Yun's father successfully ignited the enthusiasm of the people.
Users collect green energy through low-carbon behaviors, which are consistent with the purpose, including: using walking instead of driving, paying utility bills online, and purchasing tickets online.
In addition, according to the amount of energy accumulated by users, you can choose what type of trees to plant, as of 2022, Ant Forest has launched a total of 17 tree species, each tree species requires different energy, the larger the tree species, the more energy required.
For example, lemon strips and shuttle trees are two types that require less energy, but trees such as spruce, Huashan pine, and cypress will require many times more energy, so that the side motivates the user to collect energy.
Because ant forests are essentially public welfare projects, and indeed drive the low-carbon action of the whole people, ant forests have been widely praised after they were launched.
In October 2018, Alipay officially announced that the Office of the National Greening Committee and the China Greening Foundation had officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Ant Financial Services Group on "Internet + Voluntary Tree Planting for the Whole People", and the Alipay Ant Forest Tree Planting Model would be officially included in the national voluntary tree planting system.
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the launch of Ant Forest, according to the "Public Low-Carbon Lifestyle Research Report under the Background of Internet Platforms", by August 2019, 500 million users of Ant Forest had reduced carbon emissions by 7.92 million tons, and together planted 122 million real trees on the earth, an area equivalent to 1.5 Singapores.
Within a year, Alipay officials once again updated the data on tree planting for the whole people: as of the end of May 2020, the number of participants in the ant forest had exceeded 550 million, and the cumulative planting and maintenance of real trees was more than 200 million, and the planting area exceeded 2.74 million mu, compared with 2.5 Singapores.
Although it is not known why Ant Forest has been holding on to Singapore, from the data alone, its achievements are really remarkable.
By the fourth anniversary of the launch of ant forests, this figure has been updated to more than 223 million ant forests, afforestation area of more than 3.06 million mu, when the vegetation of the region reaches maturity, GEP (gross ecosystem product) can reach 11.18 billion yuan.
With the more good news brought back by the ant forest, the curiosity of users is also high, most people can only choose from the mobile phone to provide several protected areas provided by the APP, such as Wuyuanhe Protectorate, Laohegou Protectorate, Jiatang Protectorate, etc., but in fact, few people can really go to these places, in the real world, the land of these protected areas, are there really trees that are constantly planted?
Two
In 2021, a national question about the ant forest was quietly raised.
The reason is that some netizens posted a video of the Alxa League No. 277 woodland, which is where the ant forest promised to plant trees, but in the video, this woodland is barren except for barrenness, and there are no trees at all, but flying sand and stones can be seen everywhere.
The video was transmitted back to the Internet, and some netizens "blew up", questioning that Ant Forest had been counterfeiting for many years, and sarcastically saying that "this is the consistent style of Alibaba's products, the difference between buyer shows and seller shows."
In addition, some netizens were "hurt" by the video, saying that they had accumulated 66 environmental protection certificates in the past three years, were they all fake?
The wind began at the end of Qingping, the influence of public opinion is obviously not to be underestimated, the suspected fraud of the ant forest has become more and more intense, and many netizens even immediately withdrew from the ant forest, saying that they would not continue to plant trees.
This incident alarmed a lot of media, a few days later, a reporter came to this piece of alxa league No. 277 forest land that was strongly questioned to investigate the field, from the video, this forest area is indeed bare and there are no trees, but the reporter invited the ranger Master Hu, who is responsible for this forest area, to accompany him, but said that there are actually trees here, but people "can't see".
Facing the camera, Master Hu was quite helpless. He said that this forest area is located in the Gobi Desert, the planted shuttle tree grows on the gravel ground, coupled with the local climate drought, extreme water shortage, these conditions themselves will affect the growth of the shuttle tree, do not look at the land is deserted, but look closely at the ground, in fact, every pit has been planted with shuttle trees.
Listening to Master Hu's words, the reporter found a clump of weed-like plants on the gravel-strewn ground and asked Master Hu, "Is this the shuttle tree?" and was affirmed by Master Hu.
With the "proofing" of this shuttle tree, the reporter has found many shuttle trees with different growth and different sizes, some of which look lush and some are about to wither, which is due to the lack of precipitation in 2021.
Master Hu said that the local shuttle tree is planted in accordance with the network of 3 meters x 5 meters, every 15 square meters there is a shuttle tree, so it is not so dense, plus outsiders are accustomed to the "tree is taller than people" This setting, a glance at the past is naturally unable to find the tree.
In addition, the No. 277 woodland is more geologically hard, grazing is more, coupled with drought and other reasons, the shuttle tree generally does not grow high, while the shuttle tree on the other side of the sand will grow taller.
Master Hu said that after a shuttle tree is planted, it is not a matter of one day or two days to wait until it grows, it may take ten years and eight years. The so-called "ten years of trees, a hundred years of timber", is also the truth.
As a result, the netizens who initially questioned the lack of trees in the No. 277 forest area were obviously some swords on the side.
Users accumulate enough time for a shuttle tree on the Internet, which is definitely much shorter than the growth time of trees, not to mention, planting trees is to be arranged in batches according to the season and planting conditions, not that after the user clicks to plant trees, there will be staff carrying hoes to run to plant one immediately.
Netizens who questioned whether the Ant Forest Public Welfare Project was fake, the reason was obviously untenable, and it also exposed that they did not pay much attention to the country's work in wind and sand fixation and afforestation.
When the reporter of Red Star News visited the No. 277 woodland, he and the acceptance unit measured the sample of the woodland on the ground, and the results showed that the survival rate of the shuttle tree here was basically about 75%, and the situation was already good.
Although the solanx tree can theoretically grow to 1-9 meters tall, in places like Alxa League, it can grow to about 40 centimeters and is already a successful tree.
The reporter also learned that the 277 woodland is located in a harsh environment, here is not "spring rain as expensive as oil" so simple, but where the rain is precious enough, the annual precipitation here is only 130 mm, speaking of here, she quipped: "If you are a person living in Hangzhou or other southern regions, I am afraid that the rain experienced is more than 130 mm." ”
This shows the difference in the natural conditions of the Alxa League.
Three
People's doubts about the ant forest have been smoothly solved here, which is really a oolong. But this oolong is not without a positive effect, at least let some netizens understand the real wind and sand fixation, afforestation is not easy.
The shuttle tree in the Woodland of Alxa League No. 277 was planted in 2019, and now that 3 years have passed, most of the vegetation is growing well and has been ignored by netizens who came to shoot, and in those areas that are more water-scarce, how difficult it is to control sand and plant trees is enough to think.
In 2021, the TV series "Mountains and Seas" was a hit, and the audience followed the lead actor to experience the difficulty of reclaiming a home in the wasteland. In fact, in reality, people's wind and sand control will only be more difficult than the plot of the TV series.
Half a century ago, there was a desert north of the Great Wall in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, called "Mao Wusu Desert", and Yulin City was also called Camel City because of the existence of this desert, which means desert city.
"Mao Wusu" means "bad water" in Mongolian, and at the beginning of the founding of New China, the forest coverage rate here was only 0.9%. Guo Chengwang, an elderly man from Maotuan Village, Dongkeng Town, Jingbian County, Yulin City, recalled that forty or fifty years ago, the village was surrounded by yellow sand, and when a wind and sand blew, all the crops in the field were buried.
The harsh natural environment deprived the residents of the right to live happily, but it also aroused the fighting spirit of a group of people with lofty ideals, who vowed to save their hometown from the sand with their hands. Anything, as long as you make up your mind, there is nothing that cannot be done. ”
With determination and perseverance to endure hardships, the renovation of the Mausu Desert continued uninterrupted for more than half a century from 1959 onwards. By 2020, the desert is on the verge of disappearing from China's map.
The results are written down in only a few words, but in these decades, the people who have spent time and energy on preventing wind and sand and providing technical support for continuous research have experienced what they have experienced, but it is impossible to say for three days and three nights.
At first, the trees planted on the Mu Wusu Desert died, and later, the survival rate could reach 90%, which was indispensable to hard work. With a stubbornness, the Maowusu Desert was really "ruled" by humans.
Wind and sand control, is a millennium plan, is the cause of the descendants of the blessing, this is a huge project, relying on the ant forest alone this public welfare project is naturally impossible to do, but behind the ant forest has the support of the state, it throws out a good idea, by thousands of people to catch, silent cultivation, this can not but be said to be a kind of power inheritance, worthy of people to remember and be grateful.
epilogue:
On April 22, 2019, Ma Yun appeared at a "tree planting" site in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, and in an interview, he thanked all the users who participated in the ants planting trees, which Ma Yun believed was a very remarkable thing and would have a very far-reaching impact on future generations.
In addition, he said that the tree planting plan of Ant Forest will continue, and promised to plant 100 million trees a year and increase by one million acres per year.
As of August 2021, ant forests have cumulatively driven the low-carbon life of 613 million people, and the cumulative production of "green energy" in the past five years has reached more than 20 million tons.
In addition, Ant Forest, together with eight public welfare partners such as China Greening Foundation, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, China Environmental Protection Foundation and China Green Carbon Sink Foundation, has planted 326 million trees in 11 provinces including Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia, with a total planting area of more than 3.97 million mu.
The spark of a spark can ignite the plains. I hope that the cause that people continue to support will eventually create a real "green China".
Author: Black Cat
This article is original by Shuai Zhen Finance, welcome to pay attention, take you along with long knowledge!