The sands of time blow toward a greener world

Wang's spirit of living in the desert for decades has moved many people. Every year, volunteers from all over the country and tens of thousands of local people come here to fight the sands with the couple and protect their home.

Over the past 22 years, Wang and his family have invested more than 1.2 million yuan ($187,770) to the unremitting task of containing the sand and planting trees in the Tengger Desert. During this period, in order to improve the progress of sand suppression, the couple spent more than 6,000 days in achieving more than 8,000 acres of sand afforestation, and used camels to transport 5,000 tons of water on the sand line. The round-trip journey was more than 12,000 kilometers.