Barboucha is located in Gulang County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province, on the southern edge of Tengger Desert, the fourth largest desert in China. It is the key area of ecological security defense line in Tibet Plateau and the middle section of windbreak belt in northern China, and it is also one of the areas with serious land desertification and extremely scarce water resources in China. Barboucha used to be a big sandstorm mouth in this area. In 1960s and 1970s, Tumen Village, Yiquan Village and Taizi Village near Babusha suffered from sandstorms, and the ecological environment protection was extremely extreme. There used to be a local saying that "the north wind and sand ride on the wall all night, and the donkey gets up and goes out in the morning" to describe the sweeping of sandstorms.
For decades, sand control has been a word that Gulang people can't live without. 198 1 year, six farmers, nearly half a century old, including Zhang Runyuan, He Falin, Guo Chaoming, Luo and Cheng Hai, decided to form a league farm in the form of joint household contract, and contracted to renovate 7.5 square kilometers of Huangsha, thus opening a structured and large-scale road to sand control. The organization contract book placed in the exhibition hall confirmed the original intention of Liu Lao's unremitting sand control at that time Six bright red fingerprints suppressed a promise that was not afraid of difficulties.
Guo Wangang, the second generation sand control man and director of Babusha Forest Farm in Gulang County, called the story of six old people controlling sand "Yang Ting who ate a bowl of cold water and cold noodles". In the early stage, due to the harsh environment and limited assets, the first generation of sand control people chose the original method of afforestation to control sand. There was no water around, and six old people pulled carts to carry water. When you are hungry, eat steamed bread with you and drink two glasses of cold water. They get up early and get greedy for the dark in order to plant a lot of green plants.
With the death of the "six elders" one by one, their children took over the baton and controlled the sand again. In the early 1990s, this farm was in danger of going bankrupt. The second generation of sand control people intend to drill a well to collect water to grow crops and make the farm bigger and stronger. This well, actually drilled 150 meters deep, almost killed the second generation of sand control people. But parents' persuasion and confidence in sand control made them grit their teeth again and stick to it.
In order to better control sand, the second generation of sand control people gave up a lot, but they all felt that such abandonment was very worthwhile. The efforts and tears of the sand control people irrigated this Gobi, and the green finally grew in the desert. By the year 2000, Babusha was properly rectified, and a windbreak and sand-fixing forest area with a length of 10 km and a width of 8 km was built, and several nearby villages and fields with a square kilometer of 10 were maintained. At the same time, the 308 national highway and the Ganwu traffic line passing through the sand were maintained, and the change of those who entered the sand was completed.
In 2000, the second generation of sand control people in Babusha Forest Farm volunteered. Under the guidance of Guo Wangang, the director of the field, the sandstorm in Tengger Desert is more serious. They avoided the three sandstorms, Heigangsha, Dacaosha and Misha, which are 25 kilometers away from the farm. They spent more than ten spring and autumn years in the shacks built for sand control, and carried out 6.4 square kilometers of sand control and afforestation, and closed hills for afforestation 165438.
In the autumn of 2065438+2005, Babusha Forest Farm has entered the basic construction area of green ecological defense line of Li Qian sandstorm line in the northernmost part of Gulang area, with a longer distance and greater difficulty. They contracted to carry out the daily maintenance and management tasks of the nature reserve forbidden to enter 15.6 square kilometers along the sand control ring road in Mahuatang, carried out more than 20,000 mu of sand control and afforestation projects, and planted a certain number of flowers and trees.
On March 29, 2022, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee awarded the title of "model of the times" to the three generations of "six elders" in Babusha Forest Farm in Gulang County, calling on people of all ethnic groups to learn and exercise from them. Their faith touched some people.
For sand control people, they also have a long way to go. Nowadays, Babusha Forest Farm leads nearby farmers to actively develop tidal sand industrial chain and under-forest economy to help the poor. It is an effective way to actively promote the development trend of environmental protection industry to operate desert land resources according to the model of "enterprise+industrial base+farmers" and establish economic forest industrial bases such as Lycium barbarum and jujube and Haloxylon deserticola injection industrial base in Huanghuatan immigrant investment point.
"At the beginning, the sandstorm destroyed a good mu, and the Tengger Desert was deserted. Many children and grandchildren will plant trees, who will bear it? Grandpa Six will always be a monument, and three generations of fools have firm beliefs. " This old song of Gulang sings a short story about six old people and their descendants who stuck to the desert for three generations, and this story will continue in the Gobi of Gulang again and be handed down from generation to generation.