Changes in Inner Mongolia’s soil in recent decades

The soil in Inner Mongolia has become seriously desertified in recent decades!

The most serious thing started in the late Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of inland immigrants moved into the grasslands and a large number of reclamations were opened. The "immigration to the border" policy in the late Qing Dynasty had a great impact on Mongolia's social economy! It has greatly changed the face of the grassland! Yao Xiguang, who went on a field trip to the eastern part of Inner Mongolia at that time, once said: "The method of releasing wasteland in the east and west is to start from the cultivated fields; to reclaim the wasteland? It is the tenants who have paid the price once to the Mongolian people, and then have to pay the price once to the officials. The tenants will suffer a great loss. In the case of the Mongolian people, the rent for the land that has not been paid will be high, but once the land is deeded, the rent will be reduced, which means the Mongolian people will suffer a huge loss."[2] The people's pasture reclamation destroyed their livestock production, and the narrow pasture land left behind was mostly barren land, forcing many herdsmen to flee to deserts and barren mountains, living in poverty, reducing the population, and suffering a catastrophic blow.

They released the cultivated land and deprived the Mongolian people of their original land ownership!

Grazing does little damage to the grassland! In addition, the massive development of mining resources in Inner Mongolia in recent years has led to desertification in Inner Mongolia!