China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Authorities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have introduced a new legal framework to safeguard the Gobi, a vital part of the desert ecosystem. On Saturday, the city of Hami ...

The desert begins just a few kilometers from the ... On average, there are 280 days of sunshine per year in the region, Wang explains. China wants to move away from fossil fuels The planned ...

WANG PENG/XINHUA HOHHOT — The challenging task of afforestation at the edge of the Mu Us Desert in northern China has taken on a futuristic feel this spring, with drones soaring through the air ...

Over the past 30 years, China has committed to massive desert reclamation projects. These efforts included tree-planting campaigns, irrigation systems, and advanced soil treatments to improve ...

The move builds on President Xi Jinping’s 2021 pledge at the Kunming Biodiversity Conference to scale up wind and solar power development in desert and arid areas. China’s vast western and ...

Located in the Alashan Plateau in the hyper-arid and temperate desert region of northwestern China, the Badain Jaran Desert is a meeting point for three sandy regions of China and is the country’s ...

Erenhot is a county-level city located in the Gobi Desert along China’s vast border with Mongolia, and it has particularly thrived since April after a 24-hour border crossing for freight was ...