Kubuqi a successful example of desert greening

The world's most successful land reclamation project is not to be found in a coastal area, since it is not land reclaimed from the sea. Instead, one needs to look west from Beijing at inland China and land reclaimed from desert.

Begun 30 years ago, the Kubuqi desert greening project has succeeded in not only reining in the relentless growth of the seventh-largest desert in China, roughly the size of Kuwait, it has also turned about 6,000 square kilometers of the desert - one-third of it - green.

Situated about 800 kilometers to the west of Beijing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the greening efforts have also controlled desertification in the rest of the area.