CCTV News: In the World Natural Heritage Site: In the Yili River Valley in the western part of the Tianshan Mountains, there was once a barren mountain covering an area of ​​about 60,000 acres. However, after desertification control in recent years, it has become a fertile land and a sea of ​​flowers in the Tianshan Mountains. This season, the vast sea of ​​flowers in Tianshan Mountain is blooming, which is a good time for tourists and photography enthusiasts to enjoy the flowers.

Central Channel reporter Cui Ning: This season is the peak flowering season for Meimei. The sun shines through the petals, giving it the texture of an oil painting. Every year when poppian flowers bloom, the local area attracts many tourists and photography enthusiasts.

"Long Gun" short cannon"

Sunset Flower Sea Photography Competition is in progress

This weekend, a "Sunset Flower Sea" photography competition was also held here.

Many photography enthusiasts also came here early, setting up "long spears and short cannons" to find the right camera, hoping to take pictures of the most beautiful sunset and flowers under the sunset.

In addition to this poppy flower overseas, in fact, there are tens of thousands of acres of wheat, corn, rapeseed, lavender bases and more than 2 million fruit and apricot trees in this 60,000 acres of fields. There are vibrant spring scenes everywhere now. But can you think of what this place was like 8 years ago?

Two satellite image pictures

Looking at the ecological changes of the Gobi desert mountains

This satellite photo was taken in June 2016. At that time, it was still a deserted Gobi desert mountains, and the colors looked very monotonous.

And on this picture after 8 years, it has obviously become green. This large piece of purple is the blooming lavender field.

According to local monitoring data, through desertification control in recent years, the vegetation coverage here has increased from nearly zero to 72%, and the rainfall has increased by 4 to 8 mm, forming a modern industrial park with deep integration of "agriculture, industry, culture and tourism" integrating "purple flowers sea-green grain fields-golden orchard-deep processing factory".

The wastelands in the past have become fertile fields

Natural scenery helps the development of the tourism industry

Precisely because this place is getting more and more beautiful, the wastelands that were rarely visited in the past have now become a tourist check-in place for tourists. Camps of various accommodation are like "little mushrooms" growing in the fields. Here, people can not only hike and study, but also sit in the glass waterway to experience the joy of surfing at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains and the romance of sliding on the rainbow bridge.

Last year, it received more than 400,000 tourists this year. During the upcoming May Day holiday, the number of tourists per day is expected to be more than 10,000.

It can be said that the most attractive thing here is in addition to the flowers everywhere, there is also a kind of persistence. Every flower and every tree here tells us that a true oasis is not necessarily just where the river passes, but also in people's courage to redefine the desolation.