People make straw checkerboard sand barriers in Gulang County, northwest China's Gansu Province, March 6, 2020. Sand control members of Babusha Forest Farm and local people began to carry out spring afforestation work recently. Three generations of workers at the Babusha Forest Farm in Gulang County of Gansu Province have managed to turn their hometown on the southern edge of the Tengger Desert into arable land from an inhospitable place where farmland and villages were long plagued by sand erosion. The desert-fighting workers were honored with the title "Model of the Times" in March 2019 for their devotion over the past four decades. (Xinhua/Ma Xiping)
