Environmental problems of Shiquan River

But it didn't take long for Shiquan River to have a new synonym-"Desert City". The large area of red willows that once "flooded" the sheep disappeared, and it was replaced by sandstorms that covered the sky in urban buildings. The terrible sandstorm struck like a demon, which not only disturbed and destroyed the communication and power equipment here, but also almost buried the Gaer county government office building moved to Shiquanhe, seriously affecting the production and life of residents.

"These are all stupid mistakes we made in those years," said Bu Qiong, a 53-year-old retired cadre who experienced the construction of shiquanhe town. He said that when the Shiquan River was built in the early 1960s, people only paid attention to production and construction, and paid no attention to ecological environment protection at all, and even madly cut down almost all the red willows here.

Humans cut down mangroves crazily, but they didn't escape the punishment of nature after all. Later, there were sandstorms everywhere in Shiquan River. In order to cope with the sandstorm, local citizens had to wear military caps and masks, and they were all "armed to the teeth".

Ali prefectural party committee and administrative office began to attach importance to the ecological and environmental protection construction of Shiquan River, and invited experts from Lanzhou Desert Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences to shiquanhe town twice to inspect the sand control work, and the experts successively completed the sand control planning and plan.

Since 1998, Ali has invested 24 million yuan in desert control, planted Xinjiang jujube trees and 2 100 mu, planted more than 400,000 trees and planted forage grass130,000 mu in the suburbs of shiquanhe town, effectively improving the local harsh natural environment.