Farmer plants trees to help Beijing fight sand menace
Updated: 2013-11-29 19:05
By Ma Lie (chinadaily.com.cn)
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A female farmer in Guyuan county, Hebei province, worked tirelessly to plant trees to protect Beijing from wind-borne sand, China News Service reported on Thursday.
Since 2002, Wang Wenhua, 57, a farmer and village leader in Zhenzigou, led villagers to plant trees covering 1,400 hectares on what had been barren mountains.
The effort helped secure the mountain soil.
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