The Taklimakan Desert is the largest desert in China and the second largest mobile desert in the world. Alar City, the First Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, located on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert, has successfully stopped the desert erosion through the efforts of several generations of sand control workers. They built a 170-kilometer green forest belt along the edge of the desert, which literally extended the oasis to the depths of the desert for more than 20 kilometers. Xie Xiaoyun is one of the members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps who have contributed to the realization of "people entering the sand and retreating".

Xie Xiaoyun said that he hopes that the ecological environment will get better and better, the sky will be bluer, the mountains will be greener, and the water will be clearer, and that a good environment will bring us a better life.Editor/Ma Xue