Babusha is a desert protruding from the southern edge of the Tengger Desert. According to legend, there was only a sand hole eight steps wide, so it was called Babusha.

With climate change, population increase, and excessive land reclamation and grazing, the area of Babusha has gradually expanded, advancing about 10 meters southward each year. Before the 1980s, it had developed into a desert of 75,000 mu, becoming the largest sandstorm mouth in Gulang County. The production and life of more than 10 surrounding villages, more than 20,000 mu of fertile fields, and more than 30,000 people have been seriously affected.

In recent years, Babu Sand Forest Farm in Gulang County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province, on the one hand, has adopted new methods such as engineering sand control, network sand control, and technological sand control to control the sand. Economic benefits, and various ways to broaden the channels for local people to get rich.

The first row is the first generation of Babusha sand control workers, and the second row is the second generation of Babusha sand control workers

Gulang County cadres and masses conduct voluntary sand pressing activities

In order to protect their homes, six old men from Tumen Town, Gulang County put their fingerprints on the contract for contracting the desert, swearing to exchange their white hair for an oasis.

With the continuous struggle of eight-step sand control people from generation to generation, from the soil method of "one step at a time, one seedling and one scoop of water", this competition of using time for space began. After they vowed to turn the desert into an oasis The determination to control desertification and afforestation for 40 years has not only reversed the passive situation of "sand advancing and people retreating", realizing the reversal of green advancing and sand retreating, but also transforming lucid waters and lush mountains into mountains of gold and silver according to local conditions, and turning deserts into resources, assets, and capital. , change "sand damage" to "Sali".Editor/Ma Xue