Green returns to Ngari Prefecture.

A harvest time.

Environmental-friendly energy sources are widely publicized in Ngari Prefecture.

The solar energy is used in Ngari Prefecture

Walking in the Ngari Prefecture of Tibet, nothing is powerful enough to describe it but vast and wild. Words like drought, barren and desolate, are easy to linger in your mind. But, when trekking into the Gunsa Village of Gar County an eyeful of green and vigor greets you.

The Gunsa Village of Tibet with an altitude of 4,700 meters, is a successful example of artificial planting in Gar County. The great change brought by the action is called as "a great as well as successful action likely to recur the green landscape of Ngari that appeared ten thousand years before the prehistoric history".

People who know Ngari come into an accordant saying that Ngari is the "ridge" in the "roof of the world" with an average altitude above 4,500 meters. With atrocious weather, cold and deficient oxygen supply, it is also called "the third pole of the world". A total of 300,000 sq.km. territory is covered by canyons, mountains and barren lands, leaving only 280 million mu land available. To cope with desertification and degeneration becomes a formidable task. Only plants, like red willow, which are capable of living in drought land, can survive in such as drought region.

Looking back, the condition is quite adverse. The book "Tibetan Kings and Officials" writes that Nagri was the paradise of elephants and wild animals. It indicates that Nagri was once a rather prosperous place with favorable weather. Looking deep into the history, about 400 billion years ago, Ngair was an endless sea. With the emerging of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, dense forest turned up in Ngari prefecture. We can imagine that the period when Nagir was full of green and vigor came after the die away of sea. 

Nowadays, howbeit, forest has vanished in most part of Nagri Prefecture expect Burang, Zanda and some counties, not mention to elephants.

Is it possible to recur the grand greenness of Nagri that turns up in Ngari ten thousands years before the prehistoric history? Many people have been bending their heads over the research.

With the picking up of economy, local people's consciousness of protecting environment has greatly enhanced. To protect the region's environment, ban on gold dust mining was carried out in 2004 and efforts taken to help artificial grassland, reasonable pasture, tree planting and so on, have strengthened.

According to Dong Mingjun, secretary of Nagri Party Committee, their work was very much based on protection of grassland, giving priority to protect environment. They decided to plant trees in a total of 30,000 mu land in Nagri Prefecture, involving 46 villages of 25 townships.