The water is rippling, the reeds are green, and when you walk into the demonstration area of ecological comprehensive and integrated management of Qingtu Lake in Minqin, everything is beautiful, full of greenery, and sometimes you can hear the crisp birdsong, as if you have walked into Monet's oil painting.
In recent years, Minqin County has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, scientifically built sand control demonstration bases such as Qingtu Lake, Shazuidun and Sifangdun, and planned to use the three years from 2024 to 2026, adhere to project support, national participation, social coordination, and coordinated promotion of multiple departments and units, and take measures such as engineering sand fixation, artificial afforestation, restoration of degraded forests, sand closure and cultivation of forests and grasses, and restoration of shrubs and grasses in degraded grasslands, and completed the comprehensive and integrated management of 314,000 mu of Qingtu Lake. In 2024, it is planned to implement 40,000 acres of integrated governance, and build 400 acres of demonstration sites for new technologies, new materials and new models for desertification prevention and control.
