When the plane landed at Jinchuan Airport in Suzhou Province, reporters Pei Sheng and Xiao Wu were frightened by the scene in front of them as soon as they walked out of the airport.

As far as the eye can see, slogans such as "Desert Oasis Tour" and "Jiagu Oasis Tour" abound, and there are people who look like tour guides holding small flags, staring at the passage with fierce eyes.

In order to be the first, I saw a person ignoring the discipline of the airport, "whoosh" through the guard, handed a business card to Xiao Wu on the outside, bent over and said: "Are the two of you here to travel or work? Is there a vehicle to pick up? Our tour guide group has off-road vehicles, sightseeing cars, and can pick up and drop you off for visits and local tours at any time, and I will help you carry your luggage." ”

If it weren't for Xiao Wu's glaring, this guy would definitely have to grab the luggage to help.

There are even tour guides who can't break through the barrier, one by one, they stuff small cards over, and say as if chanting: "Desert oasis tourism!

Xiao Wu was stunned and gave Pei Sheng a look of "Didn't you say that our unannounced visit will be hindered".

Pei Sheng was speechless.

If it weren't for the sake of making big news, who would have come to the desert with nothing to do? How could he have expected that the desert oasis of Jiagu would also start tourism?

"Are we looking for a tour guide?" asked Xiao Wu.

Pei Sheng shook his head and said in a low voice: "No, if there is a tour guide, he may send a message to Jiagu, and we will act alone." ”

In the end, the two refused all the invitations of the tour guides, rented an off-road vehicle, and went straight to the Jiagu Desert Oasis.

However, the heavens did not grant people's wishes.

If the opening of the Jiagu Oasis only surprised Pei Sheng, when he arrived at the oasis base, he happened to meet Wei Ming, the person in charge of the base, and he recognized his identity at a glance, which was crazy.

Wei Ming took the initiative to shake his hand and said with a smile: "Are you ...... Reporter Pei, are you here for an interview or a tour?"

"Uh, uh...... It's all there. Pei Sheng, who looked confused, replied vaguely.

In essence, I screamed inwardly, what the hell is this, how can I be so famous that anyone can recognize me? Or did someone leak my identity?

Wei Ming seemed to see his doubt, and said with a smile: "I also have to thank Reporter Pei for pointing out the shortcomings in our work and making up for some loopholes in the cooperative system......"

Pei Sheng suddenly realized, but also seemed to have been stabbed, remembering the experience of finding fault and not being able to counter-assist, and said with a forced smile: "Where is it, it also happened to be ......"

Wei Ming smiled innocently, and after Pei Sheng refused his arrangement, he still waved his hand and beckoned a young staff member: "In this way, Reporter Pei, you are also coming to the desert for the first time, I will arrange a guide for you, if you need to cooperate, you can explain to him." ”

Afraid that if he refused again, he would be suspicious, so Pei Sheng pretended to be happy: "That's really thankful!"

But he was crying in his heart, his secret visit, his news, and his fame were all gone, he was so unlucky, he just happened to meet a Jiagu person who knew him.

What he didn't know was that Wei Ming actually knew his intentions.

In the final analysis, he underestimated Jiagu's visual regulatory system!

Jiagu's agricultural bases all over the country cannot realize the whole process of visual supervision, but Jiagu's modern pastures, modern pig farms, and modern food processing factories are all included in the visual supervision system, and the data can be directly transmitted to the data center of Jiagu headquarters.

Pei Sheng's figure appeared once or twice, and it was nothing, but his figure appeared frequently, which made Jiagu employees even want to notice it.

After a little investigation, the group's public relations department knew his identity as a reporter and his obvious intention of "doing things".

The reason why he left it alone is because Jiagu is frank and honest, and he thinks that he is not afraid of investigation, if he really finds out the problem, then he still checks and fills the gaps - isn't there a loophole in the cooperative system that has been filled in because of this?

Wei Ming recorded Pei Sheng's face in the bulletin of the group's public relations department, and as soon as they met, there was only one thought in his heart, and it was finally my turn.

"Intimately" arranged a guide for Pei Sheng, and Wei Ming didn't care about him, because today was the first time that the eastern line of the Liangmo Reservoir project was opened to release water, and he wanted to rush over to watch the ceremony.

Seeing this, Pei Sheng, who had "exposed" his identity, simply broke the jar and broke it, and followed with his deputy Xiao Wu and the arranged guide.

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The total area of the two desert reservoirs is 2,145 square kilometers, the normal water level elevation is 190 meters, the total reservoir capacity is 80 billion cubic meters, and the two sides are built according to the Yabulai Mountain.

Such a large reservoir, and built in the desert, is rare in the world, and it is also the largest artificial reservoir in China, and it is well-deserved as the "Pearl of the Hanhai".

Standing on the dam overlooking the entire reservoir scenic area, the sky is deserted, and it is contained in the water light and shadow. Of course, the most eye-catching thing now is the slowly opening floodgate.

Rough water rushed out of the sluice gates, along the eastern waterway, through the Tengger Desert, around the Helan Mountains, and into the Yellow River.

When the chief engineer of the Liangmo Reservoir Project announced that "the eastern line will be smoothly opened to water," thunderous applause rang out, and it lasted for a long time.

Pei Sheng stood in the rear, saw Qi Zheng, chairman of Jiagu, leaders of the Ministry of Water Resources, leaders of Su, Ning, and Mongolian provinces in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, media reporters, construction workers, Jiagu employees, and tourists...... Excited, or eager, all clapping vigorously.

Even Xiao Wu beside him couldn't help clapping his hands red.

He knew why they were excited.

It is for the mother river of the Chinese nation to be excited!

The Yellow River, which is only 2% of the country's river runoff, bears 15% of the country's cultivated land, 12% of the population, and more than 50 large and medium-sized cities, as well as Zhongyuan Oilfield and Shengli Oilfield.

The Yellow River transports 10 billion cubic metres of water out of the basin every year, basically one-third of the total available water, far exceeding the extraterritorial water supply of other rivers, but very little water is diverted.

According to the latest water survey, the Yellow River's natural runoff is already less than 50 billion cubic metres – the Yellow River has reached its limits, and any further increase in water consumption could have serious consequences.

But water consumption is bound to increase.

Among them, the three provinces of Suning and Mongolia in the upper reaches of the Yellow River are the most urgent.

According to national requirements, many provinces and regions in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River are laying out high-water-consuming industrial bases, such as the coal chemical base in Mongolia Province, the Ningdong Energy Base, the Northern Shaanxi Energy Industrial Base and the Shanxi Coal Power Base.

The East Route of the Two Desert Reservoirs can deliver up to 10 billion cubic meters of water to the Yellow River every year, which is equivalent to the amount of water diverted from the two middle routes of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project – the best hope for the first time in nearly 20 years that the runoff of the Yellow River will increase instead of decreasing, and it is also a major driving force for the economic and social development of cities along the Yellow River.

Pei Sheng's heart was also a little touched, and it was difficult for him not to be excited about this super project that benefited the country and the people, but if he recognized this, it meant that his trip was very likely to be fruitless.

So, in the midst of the hustle and bustle, Pei Sheng chose to be out of sight.

He pulled his deputy Xiao Wu and said in a low voice, "Let's go." ”

The guide next to him looked surprised: "Reporter Pei, why don't you just do some interviews?"

Pei Sheng tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, "There are too many peers here, I might as well find other materials." ”

The guide was stunned, with a "I understand" expression on his face.

"If I could, I'd like to go to the oasis. Immediately afterwards, Pei Sheng said again.

The guide who had already been explained by Wei Ming was kind and flowing: "No problem, I'll take you there." ”

The trio walked down the reservoir dam and headed east.

The guide didn't know where to bring the three camels from yet, so he suggested riding the camels forward, and Pei Sheng readily agreed.

The camels were very docile, they were all squatting, Pei Sheng and Xiao Wu carefully sat on them under the guidance of the guide, and the camels stood up again and walked slowly.

Both were riding camels for the first time and it felt a little amazing.

The direction of the three of them was the grassland.

In Pei Sheng's mind, desert and grassland are two concepts, a place where there is no grass is a desert, and a place where water and grass are abundant is a grassland. Unexpectedly, in the endless desert yellow sand, there are really large areas of grassland.

It can be seen that the grass under the camel's feet is sparser than the Inner Mongolian steppe where he has been, and if you don't look closely, you really can't see that this is originally a desert with no grass.

Thinking so, Xiao Wu also asked.

The guide laughed: "There is no doubt that our feet should have been deserts for thousands of years. All the green and green earth that you see now, with the birds singing and the water clear, has changed since six years ago. ”

Pei Sheng didn't answer, but suddenly pointed to a place and asked, "What is that?"

The guide looked at it and smiled: "Oh, that's the groundwater level monitoring point." Jointly deployed by us and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, data is collected every three months to determine the impact of desert greening on shallow underground water. There are hundreds of such monitoring points scattered across the desert. ”

As soon as Pei Sheng heard the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he had no desire to speak.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has been brought out, can he still suspect fraud? Even if he dares to doubt it, the editor-in-chief will not dare to report it.

Xiao Wu asked with great interest, "Does that have a positive impact?"

Nonsense, there must be a good result, otherwise he would have taken us to see it? Pei Sheng answered in his heart disdainfully.

"Well, little has changed in previous years, but since last year, the water level in the shallow underground layer has risen significantly, and some monitoring points have detected a continuous rise of five centimeters...... "The guide smiled.

Sure enough, Pei Sheng looked at the sky...... And then the mood is even less beautiful.

The white clouds floating in the blue sky complement the grasslands on the ground, and the scenery is pleasant.

But no matter how ignorant people know, the presence of white clouds means that there is water vapor, and the presence of water vapor means that it is possible to rain.

The talkative guide told the anecdote: "...... In recent years, the rainfall in the desert has indeed increased a lot. You know, even experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences thought that a complete reversal was unrealistic at first, and that at most they could restore the desert to a certain extent, but with the increase in rainfall and the rise of the groundwater level, they all changed their views and turned into an oasis that is expected to be transformed into an oasis with agricultural conditions......

Pei Sheng was noncommittal, and Xiao Wu nodded slightly.

The green dots displayed on the satellite images may seem inconspicuous, but only when you are in the middle of it can you feel the "against the sky".

As they spoke, they passed through a forest of shuttles, and the camels that knew the way "Batabata" walked proudly through the shuttles, and occasionally, the leaves of the shuttle trees were soft like jellyfish tentacles, and their faces were swept over their faces.

The guide gently brushed aside the leaves of the Suosuo Forest, faced the inexplicable gaze of Pei Sheng and the others, and said with a smile: "I'm smiling, I won't tell you that many of the Suosuo in this Suosuo Forest were planted by me." ”

"It's not quite the same as the saxons that I've seen on some of the pictures, which are ...... It seems to look too good. Xiao Wu learned from the guide and gently brushed away the leaves.

The guide nodded, "I see what you mean. Let's put it this way, it is a big shrub in the life type, in the harsh growth environment such as the Gobi Desert, it will grow short, obscene, no more than 1 meter high, a little old man look, but in a good growth environment, such as loam, it can grow to about 5 meters, there is a feeling of a forest in front of you. This is a testament to the effectiveness of our management of the desert. ”

"Later, you will find that the more the forest at the edge of the oasis, or the forest outside the oasis, the shorter the growth is ......"

Pei Sheng interjected: "How much forest have you planted?"

The guide thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "I really can't tell the specific number." The area of the Suosuo forest in the oasis is as high as one million acres, but outside the oasis, it is expanding every day, and sometimes it is covered by wind and sand, which is difficult to count. ”

"Isn't it an oasis where the Suosuo Forest is planted?" Xiao Wu said in surprise.

"That's not the case, at least in our concept of Jiagu, only when there are signs of centimeter-thick soil and the initial conditions for agricultural cultivation can it be called an oasis. The guide paused, then said, "As for the Suosuo forest outside the oasis, that is our means of 'locking the edge' to control the sand. To put it simply, it is to plant saxon trees, divide large areas of desert into pieces, and then build irrigation facilities to further encroach on ......"

"Patience. Xiao Wu couldn't help but praise it.

Pei Sheng turned his head and said, "Is it necessary?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, is it necessary to spend so much effort to turn the desert into arable land? Isn't it more practical to make use of the abandoned land in the east and revitalize the existing cultivated land?" Pei Sheng asked with squinted eyes.

"Reporter Pei, do you know the fallow rotation of American agriculture?" Unexpectedly, the guide threw out the question.

"I know. Pei Sheng nodded.

"Well, like the corn and soybean planting belt in the central United States, large areas of land appear to be very pristine, there are no particularly developed drainage and irrigation facilities, mainly relying on natural precipitation, but surrounded by hills, dense forests, arable land and ecology are integrated, which is the result of their rotation and fallow......"

"Have you ever been to the United States?" Xiao Wu couldn't help but ask curiously.

The guide laughed: "I haven't been there, this is what I saw during the training by watching an American documentary." ”

"Let's get to the point!" Pei Sheng glared at Xiao Wu viciously.

The guide coughed lightly and returned to the topic: "You should know that if you don't get fallow land, the fertility of the land will decline, and you will have to use excessive chemical fertilizers, and the land that has been overapplied will harden and harden, and after a few years the land will become unsuitable for cultivation. Even if we adopt the ecological planting model in Jiagu, it does not mean that the land does not need to rest. ”

"But after all, my country is not a big dog, and the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land makes it difficult for cultivated land to rest. He looked at Pei Sheng and said in a calm tone: "In our Jiagu opinion, the significance of turning a desert into an oasis is not how many crops it can produce, but its reserve arable land attributes. If we transform 10 million mu of cultivated land, we will be able to let 10 million mu of cultivated land in the eastern part of the country take a breath, and if we transform 100 million mu of cultivated land, we will be able to let the 100 million mu of cultivated land in the eastern part take turns to rest. ”

Pei Sheng finished for a while, he never thought that the people of Jiagu would explain the necessity of desert management and development from this direction.

The other party did not explain from the food demand, but made the reason for the rebuttal of the surplus of food prepared by Pei Sheng unable to speak.

In my ears is the conversation between the two:

"Is this what you're training about?"

"Well, that's the truth, isn't it?"

"Uh, that sounds like ......"

Kind of makes sense...... Ahh

Without waiting for Pei Sheng to think of a reason for rebuttal, he saw the guide frequently looking at his watch.

Xiao Wu couldn't help asking, "Are you inconvenient for time?"

"Well, not really, but we'd better get back to camp now. ”

When Pei Sheng heard this, his spirits perked up, there was a situation!

He didn't want me to go on? Is there something inconvenient to show people in front of me? Should I strongly oppose it?

Pei Sheng almost staged an episode of "Mission Impossible" in his heart, and heard the young man say innocently: "The meal is almost here, in order to celebrate the opening of the east line of the Liangmo Reservoir project, the canteen has prepared a delicious meal, we had better go back early." ”

Pei Sheng was dumbfounded.

That's it, that's it, just to eat? Are you a starving ghost?

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