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in the tower of the Taklimakan Desert hinterland, there is a 300 mu of beauty. Botanical garden, this botanical garden is not only a good place for oil workers to relax, but more importantly, it bears the responsibility of cultivating and screening desert plants.
evergreen (left) in the collection of seeds of desert plants
desert date, Tamarix, astragalus, and blood grass... In spring, all kinds of plants in the botanical garden vomit sprouts, and birds chirp in the trees, so that people can hardly feel that they are deep in the desert. The botanical garden was created by women scientists evergreen and her colleagues for over 20 years.
Changqing, 55 years old, is a senior engineer of the Xinjiang Institute of ecology and geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She lived for 12 years in order to build this oasis.
desert building nursery, 12 years of
1991, the prefecture is sent to the tower to cultivate screening plants for the biological protection body of the desert oil field base. It's a bit of a myth to build a nursery on the desert where there is no grass, but evergreen and her colleagues have done it.
at that time, Tazhong oilfield was being built, and evergreen and colleagues could only dig their own houses. It is a simple way of living in the desertified area. The way of digging is simple: digging a pit of about one meter deep below the ground, the shape of a square, about two or three meters, around half a metre of dwarf wall with adobe or brick, a few rafters on the top, a raft made of branches, and then with grass leaves and mud cover. .
but it is not easy to dig a pit under a sand dune. Sometimes it takes hours to dig out a pit, instantly buried by the slippery sand, and start again. Dig the sand pit, find the red willow and Haloxylon ammodendron to build the roof, and hire a car to pull bricks, beds, tables and stoves from the countryside hundreds of kilometers away. The sandstorms are frequent in the desert. When they wake up on the second day, they often have a thick layer of sand on their beds. The door of the house was blocked up by sand. She picked up a seam and shovel a path with a spade.