He washed his face with a glass of water.

A cup of water is poured into the washbasin, and it can only cover a thin layer of the bottom of the basin. He put the basin upside down, and the water pooled in a small puddle. The hands are immersed in the water, and the skin seems to be gurgling water. Wet your palms, put your palms on your face, and rub a few hands on your face.

Finally, he leaned over and took a handful of water onto his face... He closed his eyes and felt the coolness and moisturization of the water.

Why don't you use a towel? If you use a towel, the water in the bottom of the basin is not enough for it to absorb.

He washed the vegetables with a glass of water.

Arrange the dishes first, then pour a glass of water slowly over it, even if the dishes are washed. The water used to wash the vegetables is used to wash the pot, and the water used to wash the pot is used to feed the sheep and pigs.

He took a bath-shower with a glass of water. Many years ago, when he left his hometown to go to work in Kunming, he found out that he can take a shower in the shower, and the shower head is open, showering from head to toe.

At their place, many people don't take a bath. When the summer heat is extremely hot, only those who are careful use half a basin of water to wipe their bodies. After wiping himself, he showered with a glass of water from head to toe—a luxury bliss.

Here water is more precious than oil. In 5 villages, there are indicators of how much water each person uses per day. The water source is a 300-meter deep well, and water is supplied centrally once a week for half an hour each time. When the time is up, no matter what, he has to guard the faucet at home and connect it with two water tanks.

His hometown is Minqin—you must know this place from TV, newspapers, and the Internet, right?

To the west of Minqin County, Gansu, is the third largest desert in China, the Badain Jaran Desert; to the east, is the fourth largest desert in China, the Tengger Desert.

It is because of the existence of this oasis that the two deserts did not merge into a larger desert. This place used to be a pearl on the Hexi Corridor, and now, it is also "famous" - its specialty is sandstorms.

In his memory, the village was beautiful.

The village was originally called "Haozi Beach". He heard the old people say that seventy or eighty years ago, the rivers were vertical and horizontal, and the water flowed continuously for many years. There were large areas of Populus euphratica forests along the river channels.

When he was a child, he used to play in the village, where poplar, jujube tree, haloxylon, red willow, white twig, wolfberry, sand rice and other high and low trees and wormwood grew. As the plants continued to increase and grow, they blocked the Quicksand, over time, has formed a three-dimensional ecological community.

The change happened in the early 1990s. With rising prices and high living expenses, farmers have opened up wasteland to cultivate land, cut down forests, leveled the land, and planted black melon seeds with better economic benefits. Even some government departments and enterprises are not idle, staking their farms.

Since then, the devil, Sandstorm, has also been released from the cage by his own hands and has become unscrupulous.

Minqin, an oasis in the desert, is getting smaller every year. The desert advances more than ten meters every year, bit by bit swallowing villages and farmland. Young and middle-aged people have fled the village. Therefore, the children in this county are very good in the college entrance examination. If they are admitted to a good school, they will never have to come back.

Throughout Minqin, the average annual precipitation is only about 110 mm, but the annual evaporation is 2460 mm, which is 24 times the precipitation.

He opened the door, his eyes filled with yellow sand.

"If Minqin becomes a desert, where will I go? My hometown will disappear?"

Every time he returned to his hometown and saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't sleep all night. He thought that it was time to do something - no matter how small a person's strength is, it is also a strength.

At that time, he was working in another place, but he was more and more concerned about his hometown.

He studied several boxes of books on the desert and Minqin, and wrote many articles about Minqin on the Internet, which attracted attention from all walks of life.

Later, he met a fellow villager through the Internet and set up a "Rescue Minqin Network". The two of them hit it off, and they met late, and they built up a large circle of volunteers through the Internet.

Almost no one in the village knows why this young man who has been working outside for many years and has become accustomed to urban life, is returning to the village.

He contracted a piece of land in the village. The old forest that was once reclaimed has long since become a barren desert - a wind blows, and the sand and rocks are blown away, and the grass is blown away.

400 acres of wasteland, 50 years of use, he wants to plant Haloxylon ammonites on the wasteland.

Haloxylon is a very cheap plant and a hero in the desert. It is drought-resistant and saline-alkali-resistant. In places where the annual precipitation is less than 100 mm, it can survive with difficulty as long as you give it a glass of water. In Minqin, it is the most suitable for planting shuttlecocks for windbreak and sand fixation.

He hangs on the Internet every day to organize a charity sale of paintings and calligraphy in cooperation with the media. After raising the funds, he goes to plant Shusuo.

In the first year, he and fellow villagers recruited more than 20 volunteers on the Internet, drove a private car to the edge of the desert, and planted 5,000 Haloxylon ammonites in the 10-mu desert.

In the second year, 10,000 Haloxylons were planted.

In the third year, another 10,000 Haloxylons were planted.

The most difficult thing about planting trees is water.

If you don't water it that day, Suosuo will die the next day. There is a water well far away, and we have to rely on a tractor to transport water, and then carry it with buckets. One bucket of water and two pits are poured into them one by one.

The volunteers left, but he still had to persevere. These Suosuo are his "children".

He went to the desert every few days to see, if it didn't rain for twenty or thirty days, he would have to water the trees one by one.

After a month of severe drought, his heart was scorched by the sun. Then it rained, and when the first green leaves of Shusuo grew, he wept.

He quickly took a photo with his camera and posted it on the Internet. All the volunteers cheered.

If Shuosuo can survive, a few grasses can be left at its feet, so that it will not be blown away when the wind blows. The grass can reproduce without being blown away. Year after year, vegetation can recover.

Since 2007, the total area of ​​the volunteer ecological forest has reached 500 mu. In April 2010, more than 200 volunteers went to plant Haloxylon.

In the eyes of others, he is an odd young man.

He paid a lot of price for planting suo suo. He originally had a fairly well-paid job in the city, but for the sake of Susuo, he gave up his job. After all, he had no economic benefit in planting the shuttle in the countryside, and he also spent a lot of time.

But he himself said that the most fulfilling thing in his life was to grow thorax with volunteers for several years.

In order to plant Shusuo well, he consulted the elders in the village and read many books such as "Desert Studies". He collected and read some books and papers of the Gansu Desert Control Research Institute.

In order to try to cultivate Populus euphratica artificially, he went to the provincial library to rummage through the materials, and found a place where the Populus euphratica forest used to grow and is now a barren beach to conduct a fencing experiment.

Now, the desert has been covered with new green, and their "Save Minqin" plan has been selected into the "China Public Welfare 2.0 Training Project", which has been recognized by the outside world.

At present, they have a more ambitious plan and have begun to implement it.

On April 13, 2010, in the office building of Intel China in Beijing, at the "chip world" public welfare innovation award ceremony jointly held by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Intel, "Save Minqin Volunteer Association", as a non-governmental environmental protection organization, submitted " Our Village, Our Hometown - Internet Reality Tree Planting Platform" public welfare project.

In the end, this project won the Pioneer Award of the "Core World" Public Welfare Innovation Award.

To put it simply, they need to build a complete Internet platform, mark the villages that need to be treated on the network map, and combine animation technology to truly reproduce the local environmental status quo, and attract the public to participate in the ecological protection and management of desertified areas.

People can donate funds through the Internet and text messages, and if you donate 10 yuan, you can plant a Haloxylon in the desert. Then as long as you use the computer network or 3G mobile phone, you can check the growth of this Haloxylon at any time, as well as the changes before and after the deserted beach.

He said that his goal is to plant more Haloxylon and better protect our homeland, hoping that one day the black storm will not come again.

Walking out of Minqin Jiahe Township and returning to Jiahe Township, this is incredible in the eyes of the villagers. In this village, except for him, the youngest peasant is already 40 years old. He said: "I often feel embarrassed. If I shatter my vision and go to the city, it will not be a problem to find a job with a monthly salary of several thousand yuan... But I am a farmer now, and I don't have a job in the city. Not from the city. But you have to say that I am a farmer, but I can't find anyone in the village who can talk."

When I ran to interview him that day, I saw him washing his face in the yard.

He poured a glass of water into the washbasin, placed the washbasin tilted up, immersed his hands in it, moistened his palms and rubbed a few hands on his face, then leaned over and shoved a handful of water onto his face.

The water you have washed your face with is still a cup. He said that this glass of water can also water a Haloxylon.

He was born in 1981, his name is Ma Junhe, and his online name is "fish in the desert".

He washed his face with a glass of water.

A cup of water is poured into the washbasin, and it can only cover a thin layer of the bottom of the basin. He put the basin upside down, and the water pooled in a small puddle. The hands are immersed in the water, and the skin seems to be gurgling water. Wet your palms, put your palms on your face, and rub a few hands on your face.

Finally, he leaned over and took a handful of water onto his face... He closed his eyes and felt the coolness and moisturization of the water.

Why don't you use a towel? If you use a towel, the water in the bottom of the basin is not enough for it to absorb.

He washed the vegetables with a glass of water.

Arrange the dishes first, then pour a glass of water slowly over it, even if the dishes are washed. The water used to wash the vegetables is used to wash the pot, and the water used to wash the pot is used to feed the sheep and pigs.

He took a bath-shower with a glass of water. Many years ago, when he left his hometown to go to work in Kunming, he found out that he can take a shower in the shower, and the shower head is open, showering from head to toe.

At their place, many people don't take a bath. When the summer heat is extremely hot, only those who are careful use half a basin of water to wipe their bodies. After wiping himself, he showered with a glass of water from head to toe—a luxury bliss.

Here water is more precious than oil. In 5 villages, there are indicators of how much water each person uses per day. The water source is a 300-meter deep well, and water is supplied centrally once a week for half an hour each time. When the time is up, no matter what, he has to guard the faucet at home and connect it with two water tanks.

His hometown is Minqin—you must know this place from TV, newspapers, and the Internet, right?

To the west of Minqin County, Gansu, is the third largest desert in China, the Badain Jaran Desert; to the east, is the fourth largest desert in China, the Tengger Desert.

It is because of the existence of this oasis that the two deserts did not merge into a larger desert. This place used to be a pearl on the Hexi Corridor, and now, it is also "famous" - its specialty is sandstorms.

In his memory, the village was beautiful.

The village was originally called "Haozi Beach". He heard the old people say that seventy or eighty years ago, the rivers were vertical and horizontal, and the water flowed continuously for many years. There were large areas of Populus euphratica forests along the river channels.

When he was a child, he used to play in the village, where poplar, jujube tree, haloxylon, red willow, white twig, wolfberry, sand rice and other high and low trees and wormwood grew. As the plants continued to increase and grow, they blocked the Quicksand, over time, has formed a three-dimensional ecological community.

The change happened in the early 1990s. With rising prices and high living expenses, farmers have opened up wasteland to cultivate land, cut down forests, leveled the land, and planted black melon seeds with better economic benefits. Even some government departments and enterprises are not idle, staking their farms.

Since then, the devil, Sandstorm, has also been released from the cage by his own hands and has become unscrupulous.

Minqin, an oasis in the desert, is getting smaller every year. The desert advances more than ten meters every year, bit by bit swallowing villages and farmland. Young and middle-aged people have fled the village. Therefore, the children in this county are very good in the college entrance examination. If they are admitted to a good school, they will never have to come back.

Throughout Minqin, the average annual precipitation is only about 110 mm, but the annual evaporation is 2460 mm, which is 24 times the precipitation.

He opened the door, his eyes filled with yellow sand.

"If Minqin becomes a desert, where will I go? My hometown will disappear?"

Every time he returned to his hometown and saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't sleep all night. He thought that it was time to do something - no matter how small a person's strength is, it is also a strength.

At that time, he was working in another place, but he was more and more concerned about his hometown.

He studied several boxes of books on the desert and Minqin, and wrote many articles about Minqin on the Internet, which attracted attention from all walks of life.

Later, he met a fellow villager through the Internet and set up a "Rescue Minqin Network". The two of them hit it off, and they met late, and they built up a large circle of volunteers through the Internet.

Almost no one in the village knows why this young man who has been working outside for many years and has become accustomed to urban life, is returning to the village.

He contracted a piece of land in the village. The old forest that was once reclaimed has long since become a barren desert - a wind blows, and the sand and rocks are blown away, and the grass is blown away.

400 acres of wasteland, 50 years of use, he wants to plant Haloxylon ammonites on the wasteland.

Haloxylon is a very cheap plant and a hero in the desert. It is drought-resistant and saline-alkali-resistant. In places where the annual precipitation is less than 100 mm, it can survive with difficulty as long as you give it a glass of water. In Minqin, it is the most suitable for planting shuttlecocks for windbreak and sand fixation.

He hangs on the Internet every day to organize a charity sale of paintings and calligraphy in cooperation with the media. After raising the funds, he goes to plant Shusuo.

In the first year, he and fellow villagers recruited more than 20 volunteers on the Internet, drove a private car to the edge of the desert, and planted 5,000 Haloxylon ammonites in the 10-mu desert.

In the second year, 10,000 Haloxylons were planted.

In the third year, another 10,000 Haloxylons were planted.

The most difficult thing about planting trees is water.

If you don't water it that day, Suosuo will die the next day. There is a water well far away, and we have to rely on a tractor to transport water, and then carry it with buckets. One bucket of water and two pits are poured into them one by one.

The volunteers left, but he still had to persevere. These Suosuo are his "children".

He went to the desert every few days to see, if it didn't rain for twenty or thirty days, he would have to water the trees one by one.

After a month of severe drought, his heart was scorched by the sun. Then it rained, and when the first green leaves of Shusuo grew, he wept.

He quickly took a photo with his camera and posted it on the Internet. All the volunteers cheered.

If Shuosuo can survive, a few grasses can be left at its feet, so that it will not be blown away when the wind blows. The grass can reproduce without being blown away. Year after year, vegetation can recover.

Since 2007, the total area of ​​the volunteer ecological forest has reached 500 mu. In April 2010, more than 200 volunteers went to plant Haloxylon.

In the eyes of others, he is an odd young man.

He paid a lot of price for planting suo suo. He originally had a fairly well-paid job in the city, but for the sake of Susuo, he gave up his job. After all, he had no economic benefit in planting the shuttle in the countryside, and he also spent a lot of time.

But he himself said that the most fulfilling thing in his life was to grow thorax with volunteers for several years.

In order to plant Shusuo well, he consulted the elders in the village and read many books such as "Desert Studies". He collected and read some books and papers of the Gansu Desert Control Research Institute.

In order to try to cultivate Populus euphratica artificially, he went to the provincial library to rummage through the materials, and found a place where the Populus euphratica forest used to grow and is now a barren beach to conduct a fencing experiment.

Now, the desert has been covered with new green, and their "Save Minqin" plan has been selected into the "China Public Welfare 2.0 Training Project", which has been recognized by the outside world.

At present, they have a more ambitious plan and have begun to implement it.

On April 13, 2010, in the office building of Intel China in Beijing, at the "chip world" public welfare innovation award ceremony jointly held by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Intel, "Save Minqin Volunteer Association", as a non-governmental environmental protection organization, submitted " Our Village, Our Hometown - Internet Reality Tree Planting Platform" public welfare project.

In the end, this project won the Pioneer Award of the "Core World" Public Welfare Innovation Award.

To put it simply, they need to build a complete Internet platform, mark the villages that need to be treated on the network map, and combine animation technology to truly reproduce the local environmental status quo, and attract the public to participate in the ecological protection and management of desertified areas.

People can donate funds through the Internet and text messages, and if you donate 10 yuan, you can plant a Haloxylon in the desert. Then as long as you use the computer network or 3G mobile phone, you can check the growth of this Haloxylon at any time, as well as the changes before and after the deserted beach.

He said that his goal is to plant more Haloxylon and better protect our homeland, hoping that one day the black storm will not come again.

Walking out of Minqin Jiahe Township and returning to Jiahe Township, this is incredible in the eyes of the villagers. In this village, except for him, the youngest peasant is already 40 years old. He said: "I often feel embarrassed. If I shatter my vision and go to the city, it will not be a problem to find a job with a monthly salary of several thousand yuan... But I am a farmer now, and I don't have a job in the city. Not from the city. But you have to say that I am a farmer, but I can't find anyone in the village who can talk."

When I ran to interview him that day, I saw him washing his face in the yard.

He poured a glass of water into the washbasin, placed the washbasin tilted up, immersed his hands in it, moistened his palms and rubbed a few hands on his face, then leaned over and shoved a handful of water onto his face.

The water you have washed your face with is still a cup. He said that this glass of water can also water a Haloxylon.

He was born in 1981, his name is Ma Junhe, and his online name is "fish in the desert".