Making the deserts bloom
By Wu Ni | China Daily | Updated: 2013-07-30 08:11
Yi Jiefang carries saplings in a greening project in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Provided to China Daily |
When Yi Jiefang's son was killed in a car accident, she thought her grief would overwhelm her. But the Shanghai native has found comfort in fulfilling her son's wish to help in the reforestation efforts in China's barren wastelands, finding herself becoming an unlikely environmental crusader. Wu Ni reports in Shanghai.
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