North China’s Green Screen

Outlook Weekly November 12

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is an important ecological screen for north China, and even the whole country. Building a “green great wall” to ensure China’s ecological security is one of the priorities of the autonomous region. In recent years, the region’s environment has improved, with its forest and grassland area having increased and desert reduced. however, it still faces a number of challenges in ecological preservation. The local government encourages people to plant trees on grassland by providing them with more subsidies. however, the trees they plant often have a low survival rate as they have a high water consumption rate. This challenge should be solved before a “green great wall” can be really built.