Gansu village tries to make the desert bloom

Updated: 2014-04-11 08:09

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Gansu village tries to make the desert bloom

Villagers plant haloxylon ammodendron, a sand-growing plant, in Linze county of Northwest China's Gansu province on Thursday. The county is on the southern margin of the Badain Jaran Desert and two-thirds of its territory is inside the Gobi desert.[Photo/Xinhua]