Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Great wall of Taklamakan: China surrounds its largest desert with green belt" video.

This is wonderful, and the same is happening in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Inner Mongolia. Not every place can be successful, but if there is a little rain (say 100-300mm/year), it can probably work.
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Actually, a lot of arid regions are learning from China and applying similar processes, including Ethiopia and Kenya, where much progress has been made. China's efforts at stopping desertification has been in collaboration with the UN and the World Bank. It's a wonderful example of international cooperation.
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This is a great project and I'm sure many lessons can be drawn from it in the years and decades to come. The goal must be to make it self-sustainable without the addition of piped in water. In the long term, it should be able to just be stable on its own. We know that China had made a lot of efforts to revive arid, depleted land in the northern Loess Plateau. That has been a real success story, and arid communities around the world are using some of the same methods to re-green land. Some areas are just too dry, though. Even hardy shrubs need a little water.
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Actually preventing sand shifting, and preventing desertification has been ongoing in Europe for over 100 years, you just haven't heard of it, because you only care about what happens in China.
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@watb8689 "earning close to 8 million usd this year alone in farming at the countryside". If that is true, you are among the top 0.01% of Chinese farmers. I'd be curious to know what crops you grow. If you grow basic food crops like wheat and rice, then even with two harvests per year, you will need 800 hectares to make that much money. 800 hectares is 1,250 times bigger than the average farm in China.
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