Locatedin the southwest of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern part of Chinaand surrounded by the Yellow River in the West, North and East, Ordos covers atotal area of 86.8 thousand km2. In addition, Ordos is also an aridand semi-arid transition zone, where Kubuqi Desert is located in the north, MuUs Sandy Land in the south, gully and hilly area in the east and undulatedplateau area in the west.
Inthe face of severe desertification and sandification, Ordos attaches greatimportance to the prevention and control of desertification and unremittinglycarries out ecological construction centered on afforestation.
Exceptthe impelling security and governance measures by government, the sand controlwisdom in Ordos is the Win-win mode between sand control and people’s livelihood
Guidancemechanism was innovated to mobilize initiative of the whole society toparticipate in sand prevention and control.
Strategy of"individual-collective-national afforestation"was adhered to; restriction mechanism of "buying live trees" as wellas incentive mechanism of "support to afforestation with subsidies"and "replacement of investment with award" were vigorously carriedout, so as to encourage and guide enterprises, farmers and herdsmen toparticipate in prevention and control of desertification by contracting, buyingshares, leasing and volunteer to work. Meanwhile, overall consideration was givenin greening through desertification control and rich gain, in order to form apattern of diversified investment by the nation, local government, enterprisesand individuals and participation of the whole society in prevention andcontrol of desertification.
Ejin Horo Banneractively encouraged enterprises and farmers to launch afforestation in advance;it would be incorporated into the scope of project and inspection andacceptance would be carried out after the plan was issued by the state andautonomous region, and payment of the project would be made if survival ratereached the standard.
For Uxin Banner,ecological construction projects would be implemented and financial subsidieswould be given if concentrated afforestation reached a certain scale, thestandard was reached through acceptance and project requirements were metaccording to the national afforestation regulation.
Dalad Banneractively promoted subsidies for afforestation, arranged the masses in charge ofproject implementation to undertake the project construction as well asencouraged farmers and herdsmen to launch afforestation by their own andcontract afforestation, and villages to organize reforestation, so as to ensurethat farmers and herdsmen directly benefit from it.
For Otog Banner,Incentives for Ecological Construction ofOtog Banner was formulated by the People's Government, and subsidies andincentives were given to the units and individuals who made outstandingcontribution to ecological construction.
A number oftypical sand control enterprises such as Elion and Dongda as well as advancedindividuals represented by Yin Yuzhen and Wurigeng Dalai, etc. emerged inprevention and control of desertification, which led to investment of a largenumber of farmers and herdsmen as well as various communities in ecologicalconstruction, and a favorable social atmosphere that everyone loves greening,plants trees and protects green has formed.
Combination ofprevention and control of desertification with industrial development was adheredto; development model of forest desert industry in "farmers + base +leading enterprises" was actively promoted relying on the construction ofkey forestry ecological projects, so as to foster forest desert industry,extend the industrial chain, improve the science and technology, create greenbrand and reversely promote ecological governance, thereby realizing thebalance between ecology and livelihood and win-win in sand control and economy.
First of all,the strategy of "contract transfer and concentrated development" wasactively implemented and construction of raw material bases such as salix,caragana, hedysarum mongolicum, sea buckthorn and prunus armeniaca werevigorously promoted relying on key forestry projects, so that the biomass energyraw material base centered on salix, feed processing raw material forest basecentered on caragana and hedysarum mongolicum as well as food and beverage rawmaterial forest base centered on high-quality sea buckthorn and prunusarmeniaca formed, which not only improved the wind-break and sand-fixationfunction, but laid a solid foundation for development of forest desertindustry.
Secondly,support to leading enterprises was strengthened. The leading forest desertenterprises with favorable development prospects, great market potential andextensive radiation drive were vigorously supported, and conditions wereactively created to promote expansion of production scale, improve productquality and increase market competitiveness. Meanwhile, more efforts were madein brand cultivation, so as to play the demonstration and promotion role ofleading enterprises better.
In the wholecity of Ordos, there are more than 80 enterprises represented by Elion andDongda that participate in afforestation and development of industries,including 14 autonomous regional forestry industrialization leading enterprisessuch as Plateau Almond Syrup and Spring Mountain as well as 2 national keyforestry enterprises. An annual output of 26 thousand m3 wood-basedpanels can be achieved, 310 million degree of power can be generated bybiomass, and 35 thousand tons of beverage such as almond syrup, malusmicromalus wine and sea buckthorn can be yielded.
Thirdly, morethan 20 ecological tourist attractions including Mausoleum of Genghis Khan,Resonant Sand Gorge, Seven Star Lake, Engebei and Salawusu were created,relying on the favorable natural environment and unique humanistic andgeographical environment formed through ecological construction.
