It was a barren, lifeless land.
For hundreds of years.
It could bury the farmland.
The house was surrounded with sand.
It filled every nook and cranny.
However,
the desert landscape is vanishing from the map thanks to the afforestation efforts of many people.
One of them is a the 100-year-old man who created a green miracle in the depth of Mausu Desert.
I hope I can live longer to see the land turn increasingly alive.
This is the very first poplar my grandpa planted.
Follow our reporter's footprints by the Yellow river and hear the story of the Old man
and the desert in episode seven of our 12 series,
the Yellow River Mosaic.
The Old man and the desert.
September 25, 2021 at the Southern edge of Mose Desert, the middle reach of the yellow R.
The 100 year old man we'll meet today lives in the depths of Mosu Desert,
one of the four major deserts along the Yellow River.
His closest neighbor lives 8 kilometers away in a 200 household village
in Jingbian county along a major tributary of the Yellow River.
Coming off the main road after a 40 minute drive from the county town,