At the Huoshigou Primary School built by the PLA Xining Joint Logistics Support Center, ecological protection is a “compulsory course”set for the students. Beside the campus of the?school?is a vegetable farm opened up by students of the school and servicemen of a subordinate unit of the PLA Xining Joint Logistics Support Center. Soldiers and students often come to the farm together to take part in voluntary labors like growing and watering vegetables?and weeding.
Students of the Huoshigou Primary School?talk with?soldiers from a troop unit under the PLA Xining Joint Logistics Support Center at the vegetable farm of the school.?(PLA Daily/Liu Yibo)?
President Xi’s visit to Gansu Province injected confidence in the hearts of local people in numerous villages hidden in the Qilian Mountains like Xiashiba, inspiring them to walk onto a road toward green, eco-friendly development.
The area of shelter forest in Babusha Forest Farm in Gulang County, about 100 kilometers away from Xiashiba Village, grows with each passing day.
On August 21, 2019, when President Xi visited?the forest farm?after a journey along a bumpy gravel road, he encouraged local people to make unremitted efforts and strive for building a beautiful China
As we drove into the forest farm, a huge stone stele carrying words translated as “National Defense Ecological Forest” came into sight. .
The National Defense Ecological Forest with an area of 20 hectres is built by the PLA troops stationed in Wuwei City for the Babusha Forest Farm. Currently, various desert plants have taken root here and formed a shelterbelt blocking the sand invasion.
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